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Loving the eclectic music around here, here's some songs that really hit my core. Love: Meaning: Passion/Purpose: Beauty: Consciousness: Consciousness/Love: Flow:

Just a shot of intuitive soulful optimism with a garnish of alluring yet disengaged observation.

That movie turned out pretty good in the end so you should be solid.

Its just a thought in your mind focused on what it wants to create/bring about vs being focused on other things such as negative thinking, distractions and things such as this. If you're always contemplating on what you want in your life the more opportunities, chances and insights you'll find to make it a reality and vice versa. That's all. Sorry people around you get all woo woo with this idea.

I feel more unconscious than in a meditative state. Which for me being fully conscious is the most important thing during my meditation.

Consider relationships to yourself, your thoughts, your emotions, your sensations and consider the idea of the word "relationship" in your mind. Notice that you can have a relationship with the word relationship.

- Hating things - Negative emotions/ getting mad - People projecting their neurotic petty intentions - Awkwardness

Life purpose.

I heard a quote that I think could help “You can’t think your way into right action, but you can act your way into right thinking.”

"Yes it's possible, you're it right now, the ego has never understood something so simple it's entire life and that's why it's a struggle. I'd say go look in the mirror and tell me what you see.... Yeah..That's it. You're it and that's the end of it. sorry to make it so difficult." - Ego

Right now it might seem aimless and strange because you're still new to it, journaling in the beginning for me was about finding some resolution or understanding about myself, other's, the situation, in whatever way I possibly could, writing my view on things, how I feel, what I'm thinking, asking myself questions, problem solving. In the beginning your gonna suck just like any new endeavor, but the more you just do it and do it and do it you'll get better and better. One of the most amazing benefits I found by journaling which by the way is just scratching the surface, is that whenever I felt like shit, whenever I felt even slightly emotional the solution became to journal. because every time I journaled I found some solution, I identified some emotion, I had some realization, some insight, and even when I couldn't get any solution I at least knew where my emotions were and that was massively important. As for your ex problem, that's another issue a very good system to use is this --> Take whatever information you can from this, this guy has a very good mentality going through the breakup phase. also check out leo's videos

@Key Elements Haha I've never seen the synchronized walking that's pretty sweet.

Watching Leo's video on finding balance in personal development got me thinking about this video of these dudes bombing these massive hills on their skateboards, this helped give me a clear picture of what I imagine balancing to be like. Feel free to post anything that helped you understand this dynamic balancing we're going for.

This is my old vision board from dec 2015, my vision board now may seem heavily influenced by "leo" but I just honestly love the images he used to describe god and absolute infinity, I'm also aware Leo lives in Vegas, but I've wanted to live in Vegas before I even found out about Leo. I debated even posting it for this reason, no one would really connect with it and the fact that it's not finished yet but.. I decided to anyway.

As I'm developing my vision board I came across these beautiful photos, and instantly I thought of this is a good representation of living with an accurate perception of reality, detailed, vivid, clear, complex but cohesive. Check them out! http://lindelokse.deviantart.com/ http://c-91.deviantart.com/

Honestly I didn't know that, but when I listened to some of his songs like "home" I got that vibe for sure, it's really awesome to see people here who know him, none of my friends do haha, ever since he remixed deadmau5 - Raise Your Weapon I've been incredibly inspired by him. I'm curious to jump into seeing how he got where he is now.

Wouldn't let me upload from attachments for some reason but here's mine so far, not even close to done, still want to add life purpose, gym, intimacy, more inspiring figures, wealth, art and adding important labels like passion, purpose, abundance, infinity, strategy, I'm kind of going all out on this one. I've decided to work on it until it feels right or when I've finished the LP course again.

Not that I can see unless you can point it out to me where at, thanks though.

This is kind of important, I remember Leo talking about being selfless, and I vaguely remember him saying something like "But Leo! If I want to help others shouldn't I be focus on myself?" and I remember him saying "no, you should focus less on yourself and more on others." I'm curious to understand true authentic motivation.

Yeah I agree in the abstract big picture notion, but not in the concrete or pragmatic notion which is what I'm interested in and focused on in this thread.

So this is the first time I'm actually doing some self-inquiry, I have no idea what I'm doing but I've decided to journal to help me in this process because I just became really frustrated without it. I currently have no idea how to do self inquiry, but I'm going to figure it out. I'm looking for some tips on how to do self-inquiry, questioning my identity and who I believe I am, finding out who am I, literally, and I want to know what's true. I'm not looking for you to tell me that "dude you're awareness! you're aware of it all! " or "you're nothingness!" I understand all of those ideas, but I want to experience awareness and nothingness for what it ACTUALLY truly is in direct experience. that's all I want, I just want the truth with the ultimate intent of living with an accurate perception of reality. and who I truly am. this is my first inquiry --> "What exists for me? I can feel things on my body, sensations, I can hear sounds, I can see objects from my eyes. What else? I can hear thoughts that I have no idea what they are or where they are located, they’re just there. I can bring up images that I have no idea what they are or where they are located, they’re just there. Anything else? No. this is all that exists for me. What are these things? I have no fucking clue, I just know that they exist and that there is an experience of them. Where do I exist? Take a guess. I exist in thoughts again I have no idea what they are or where they are located, they’re just there. I’m labeling them thoughts because I need something to ground me in this work. What is a thought? Truly? It’s an experience. What is an experience? The recognition that something exists. What exists and doesn’t exist? What exists is something that I can perceive or notice, whatever label I want to use here. What doesn’t exist is what I can’t perceive and what I can’t notice again whatever label I want to use here. So what am I? “I” am a label created inside an experience." I'm just looking for some tips and maybe a little guidance in this process and maybe how others do self inquiry, how you started, how you progressed, Thanks.

I do want to dive more into biology, physics and quantum mechanics in my studies, that stuff is like intellectual candy to me. but self mastery, life purpose and self actualization are my main focus. I already meditate an hour everyday, bumped it up to an hour a day 2 months ago and haven't missed a day, overall been meditating for almost 2 years, only missing a day here and there. I've only just recently become truly conscious of the problem of human identity in the process of living up to my highest potential in life, already during this self inquiry process I've become conscious of these labels you describe, thinking, believing, knowing , etc. and my assumptions of them. thanks for the input.

I'm looking to ask more questions about my ego, Examples: - What are thoughts? - What are beliefs? - Who am I? - What is truth? - Why do I suffer? - Why do I try to be so certain? Things like this, what are some questions that you've asked that really gave you insights into truth? I was watching the Secret to spiritual success - Matt Kahn. and he gave me an insight into contemplation which is pretty awesome "You can ask any question, you can contemplate any question spiritually, and if you did it from a place of relaxation, you wouldn't necessarily find the answer that is other words to resolve the question you have. The answer would be realizing that the question was only manufactured in your consciousness as a reflection of how out of alignment or how unrelaxed you live your life. So what if an answer is just words that conformed you've returned to relaxation and questions are reminding you how unaligned you are, but they have nothing to do with one another. People have questions and think an answer is gonna resolve it, people say "Who am I?" and they're waiting for someone to say something, instead of saying "the question I'm asking is proof that I'm not relaxed, let me relax, let me become the answer, not the one listening for an answer and then whatever amazing insight I have is just my consciousness shifting out of question mode to answer mode to confirm that I've returned to relaxation as proof to how aligned I now am."

Thanks @Leo Gura, I've been going pretty deep even with just the first questions you gave. I realize I need to get better at questioning, asking proper questions, double checking, triple checking my assumptions and continue to build up my mindfulness to really "see" what's going on on the meta level. Thanks again.

to me experience means the recognition that something exists. I don't think I'm the perceiver perceiving the perceived. I experience that there is perception of these things.. that's all. "I" refers to "me" "awareness" "nothingness" whatever label you want to use. I realize that I do still identify that there is a me experiencing these things because I need a premise that explains the experience that's occurring right now. Your premise is based on that "I" don't exist. which I understand. but that doesn't deny that there still is experience happening regardless if there is someone behind it which of course enlightenment says there isn't. I'm looking to find out what is the source that even recognizes that something exists in the first place. that's the thing I'm interested in. which is nothingness. which I'm really trying to get to the bottom of even if there is no bottom to be found. Sorry if there's a lot of confusion.