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Lately I've been trying to notice those little beautiful moments in life, with a desire to appreciate them more. I have noticed this new two. For my 5th year aniverary with my girl, I gifter her a ring and she gifted me a watch. I have to say that the mechanical watch is very beautiful, it is an open design and you can see every little piece moving in perfect rythm and synchronicity. Just watching it work plus the deep significance it has, lead me to a deep appreciation every time I check the time. So wearing everyday this watch has made me a bit happier in my life. I also bought for christmas a good fragrance. Each time I smell it, I feel good. It gives me this good aura of fresh delicious smell. This brief moment of breathing in the perfume, before starting the day, makes me really happy. Please tell me!! What are the little things in life that make you happy?

As such, you and I are two. Again, you and I are one. The void that is between these two is in fact I. ~ Sri Anandamayi Ma

Ma Anandamayi revealed that one means for attaining the illuminating knowledge of the Self is through profound awareness of the life-breath. Thus, she has said: “The Self, or God is unknowable to the ordinary intelligence, but He is not unknown to us as the life-breath. If one uses the rhythm of one’s breathing as a support in meditation, this increases one’s power. Therefore, one should daily sit in a meditative pose in a solitary place and turn the mind inward, and repeat the mantra in rhythm with one’s breathing, without straining, in a natural way. When through prolonged practice, the Name becomes inextricably linked with the breath, and the body is quite still; one will come to realize that the individual is part of the One Great-Life that pervades the Universe.” - Mountain Path. July 2011. Anandamayi Ma The Teachings Swami Mangalananda

I enjoy rainy days

I think this post about Kindle Direct Publishing is directly relevant to anyone interested in writing a book:

@Leo Gura Amazon now offers Kindle Direct Publishing: https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/ It is a new business model for independent writers that allows printing on demand and outsorcing of the technicalities to Amazon. Here is a quote from their help web: "KDP prints your book on demand and subtracts your printing costs from your royalties. That means you don't have to pay any costs upfront or carry any inventory." This may be worth investigating. I know several people that are satisfied with the service. Amazon is investing higly in KDP, as books are an important part of their market and even have a current monopoly (68% share) on ebooks. Here I found a good analysis of benefits and drawbacks on the subject:

I've lately found a renewed appretiation for hippie juvenile love and just positive wishing for all humanity. In stage yellow this was seen to be brutally naive, however now I see it as just a great attitude of mind towards reality and others, that needs not to be confused with the also undeniable crudeness of life. This welcoming, loving, open and embracing attitude can actually make your everday life much more joyous, if you are construct aware enough to not trap yourself into any utopian bubble, divorced from reality. So Peace & Love comrades!

@TheAlchemist Oh no, what I already knew but didn't wanna embrace Today I woke up with a renewed excitment and joy for life actually.

I would like to build upon this video: After a very good full day trip on multiple substances on Sunday. I felt kind of void on monday, not in a bad or positive way but just empty, restful. This feeling continued with multiple awakenings these days about nothingness and deconstruction. This morning, I realized I was going through an Ego Backlash, as I observed what was going on, I could see through all my life as a house of cards, and that all meaning was auto-generated. I kind of awoken out of a life purpose I never even had consciously built in the first place. So this, would be the question: How do you deal with a lack of meaning in life? After you have cleaned yourself up and just seen through all of it; how do you install new programs? Because the inertia just wants to install back again all the old stuff. I'm not a noob I know how it works, how homeostasis and decompressing will end up guiding the whole process, i've been here multiple times. Yet, I just feel I wanna hit while the iron is hot. Something can be learnt while in the midst of this that otherwise is unaccessible. I would also like to know more advanced tips about Ego Backlash. Tricks that you may have gathered in your journey, other than oh don't worry it will just pass and you will be back to normal in a few days or weeks. How do you masterfully deal with an Ego Backlash?

In the begining, this was a great help for me to overcome pre tripping fear Do something uncomfortable but good for you Do a sprint, a cold shower, push ups...

There was another post of this kind that I cannot recall about improving voice from @StarStruck There were lot of great insights. It was a very nice contribution from the community Oh I found it. Here it is: That search function is very underrated

I've always come to appreciate the richness of diversity in mods. They all contribute in unique different ways. Having mods with different points of view and personalities, all together contributing towards a healthy and conscious community. Thanks for being yourself and making Actualized.org forum a better place❤️

Oh yes, this will do it: Didn't remember it was this Profound This quote in the end 1:19:33 In fact, it gave me good vibes of the final punch line he used to do after finishing the chapter. I remember he changed it because people did not see it but man if they were powerful.

To win things that money can't buy

Is financial gain your objective? I don't think you would write a book for the money. Books are not for that. A book format gives value in a way that videos never will, you yourself has said this multiple times. A book will give you credibility and put you in the awareness of another kind of public and minds. Good books are respected in themselves and become their own reality. For example: "Gödel, Escher, Bach" a book of extreme philosophical, mathematical, artistical and musical depth won the Pulitzer price for a totally unkown writer. Writing a thought-provoking book, I believe, will give your teachings a dimension that is necessary for your legacy. If you were to take my advice, I would write a book as something to do before dying. Even if you just have it in your drawer and is published after your death.

There is a point where everything is mixed up: the human, the trascendental, consciousness, God, experience, time, space, philosophy, psychology, meaning, life purpose... you get it. To compartmentalize is useful up to a point. Up to the point you discover all those things weren't separate to begin with. Totally agree

I can tell you that Malt+Ketamine is a great combo

The better the trip the worse the ego backlash will be Prepare and Expect an Ego Backlash after Good Trips Consciousness, the Mind and Psyche are like a rubber band, the more it expands, the more it will contract. Just be aware of this phenomena, a lack of recognition of this facet of awakening and tripping will lead to a lot of confusion and unexpected suffering. Your shadow and unconscious will spill out and clean itself, a last test before becoming base line consciousness. The key to long lasting benefits with psychedelics is the maturity of how you deal with the unavoidable Ego Backlash

I realized this facet for the first time yesterday: There is nothing to do. Like really, existentially there is no thing to be done. In fact, all I have been doing is nothing at all. There is nothing to awaken to, all I have been awakening to has been nothing at all! Nothing to win, Nothing to lose. How mad are we all for this nothing!

I've lately become conscious of the many facets Awakening has. It's more multidimensional than what I had assumed. Awakening being a Perfect Diamond, each Realization a Luminous Facet into the One. I would like to start with Spaciousness. I had previously experienced this facet but mostly in solitary or briefly. First time I heard of such a facet was from Frank Yang, condensing the whole meditation path into: "Contraction & Expansion" (For neophytes, let's say Concentration vs Relaxation). Michael Taft meditations really helped me to crack this nut, as the spacious facet in particular is his expertise. I also started having this Sky-like Open Wide Awake State on my Malt Trips. However, what surprised me the most was not the facet of spaciousness in itself, but the combination of this particular facet with others, casting light upon the other sides of the Diamond. To experience Consciousness with the flavour of Spaciousness , to experience Oneness with such a Wide Open Mind, to feel Love in such an Expansive state, to exist as Boundless Silence, to recognise God in such Vastness. These combinations have been particularly inspiring, opening my mind to a diverse variety of flavours that can be combined in the Awakening Journey. Some months ago, I started awakening to Symmetry. I find it particularly hard to describe this facet but I'll do my best to communicate it: Exquisite Symmetry has a profound sense of Beauty and Equilibrium. God-Made Balance throughout all Notes in the Infinite Piano Playing inside the Symphony of Reality. Feeling such profound levels of symmetric connection and oneness with existence, a deep desire arose in me to start watching Fractal Art and Infinity Mirrors. Doing so, proved to be more transforming than expected. Allowing regular meditation to go deeper than before while also providing tremendous anchoring. When I started introducing the psychedelic component in my prolonged Fractal contemplations, things made a profound shift into Conscious Aesthetics. A moving appretiation of the Palace of my own Mind and the never ending Beauty of Pure Creativity. Symmetry however, did not transform so profoundly other facets, as Spaciousness did, but there was a facet in particular which was extremely enchanced: Self-Awareness/Self-Inquiry/Introspection. As Symmetry started sinking in and expressing through myself, all corners of my Psyche and Mind started shining in the Light of the One. Such Holistic appretiations of the never-before explored facets of myself brought me to tears multiple times. It synergized in such a way where Trascendental and Relative where in Symmetric Understanding and Harmony, moving in One Whole Dance. Blind spots of my human character as well as existential ignorance were brought to light, as all corners in my Symmetric Mind were being illuminated by Consciousness. Now it's your turn – what facets have you discovered that particularly surprised you?

Thsi is interesting, thanks for sharing

Leo needs to publish a book at least, it's a facet he is missing if he wants to consolidate his legacy and work Books from Ken WIlber will continue to inspire people for decades in a way that videos just cannot. Also a book seems more serious for the social eye, more than being a youtuber posting content on social media

This one is really good