integration journey

Damascus architecture

I want to document my journey. I was born and raised in Syria and moved to the US when I was 16. I’ve grown so much and learned a lot in the past 9 years. 🤍🤍

That’s a great answer❤️

I’m done romanticizing Syria I want to work on myself I want to lose weight gain skills focus meditation skills memory training Spanish learning test taking strategy Read books self enquiry come back in 10-20 years with real skills Gym

Holy shit I have fallen into self-deception. Time to climb up and focus on a life of growth instead of comfort and fantasy.

Life can be weird in weirdly beautiful ways.

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Did you get a prescription for it?

Nice. Tell us how it goes

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Are there any conformity examples that happen specifically on this forum?

Thank you!

I needed this trip to stop romanticizing Syria. yesterday I saw how whole towns are destroyed due to bombing and I’m here whining about something. I needed this trip so I can go back and focus deeply on my studies. Living here would be a nightmare for me even though I was born and raised here. I love Syria but I need to stop romanticizing this place. It’s affecting my mental health but this trip is also healing because it’s giving me a perspective of how lucky I am to be alive.

Back home to Syria ❤️

I feel like not being a high achiever can be a trap if you discovered spirituality too early in life too.

Creativity.

Why negative? I thought it was neutral energy

Yeah nothing beats a post nut clarity or insight.

On this day one year ago Syria was liberated from almost 60 years of oppression.

I feel lost but I have hope.

“Being aware of being aware is the essence of meditation. It is the only form of meditation that does not require the directing, focusing or controlling of the mind.” — Rupert Spira

Lalla, a fourteenth century mystic and poet from the Kashmir Shaivite tradition, referred to this turning around when she said, ‘I travelled a long way seeking God, but when I finally gave up and turned back, there He was, within me. Rupert Spira, Being Aware of Being Aware

Meditation is what we are, not what we do; the separate self is what we do, not what we are. Rupert Spira, The Nature of Consciousness: Essays on the Unity of Mind and Matter

You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy. Adyashanti

Allow your self to be coloured by experience temporarily, but do not become limited by it. To say and identify with the statements ‘I am sad’, ‘I am lonely’, ‘I am tired’, ‘I am hungry’, ‘I am a man’ or ‘I am a woman’ is to allow infinite being to become limited and personal. Rupert Spira, Being Myself