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@OnceMore He's getting dragged into a deep trance. What you can do is finding your inner independence, recognizing it. Recognizing that you have no actual connection to other's reactions, beliefs, habits, judgments. Recognize that you actually remain unmoved, independent. Centre yourself, observe what is actually happening. Be a witness of the negativity surrounding you. Just a witness, in reality not taking part in it.

@Moreira "but I cant talk about that with a friend or a girliend or family because they cant understand me" If you can't "find" a girlfriend and friends who can listen to you and at least just have a sincere desire to understand you, then you yourself are not conscious enough. Your level of consciousness dictates your behaviour and overall vibe that you communicate. It is impossible for open-minded persons not to be "attracted" to you, not to sense something different about you. People who can not listen to you must be left alone. You can not force development onto someone else. You can just live accordingly to your higher self and the "right" persons will come to you. Superficial persons will just drag you down if you are not independent enough, and inner independence is a hard thing to gain.

@LRyan Your mother will always be with you. Hasn't she always been with you? Why wouldn't she be now too? Do you think distance could separate two people? Do you think bodies are a separation, a boundary between two people? Do you think a mere body is what actually makes a being? Do you think it obstructs unity? When you look at a beautiful, breathtaking view, do you feel there is separation betweeen you, "a simple human", and that which just manifests itself as "beautiful", not really describable, just misteriously, unknowningly beautiful? What is distance? Does it really exists? Contemplate this, think of your mother. Do you really think everything is as simple as everyone think it is?

You will start to distinguish as your consciousness will grow. Your "higher self" will show itself as you approach yourself more. (paradoxically, I know) One day, you will just know how to distinguish, you will know what to take into account and what not. Your intuition will awaken. I myself don't label it, I just feel it and get to choose: ignore it, or listen to it. This "intuition" is always right, you will just know it. We all have it, but we are just not sufficiently conscious of it, or just dismiss it everyday. This intuition is the one that either gives you a "miserable" feeling, or a feeling of harmony. And it is much more than that. Like I said, I don't really label it. "Intuition" or "higher self", it doesn't really matter. What really matters is that you will "know" what is "right" and what is not.

Yes. People need to impose their perspective/perception, ego, upon the other, everything. It is a battle. Who is right and who is wrong. What is true and what is not. It seems that ignorance of oneself puts marks everywhere one goes.

Life purpose, if it is really your life purpose, should also grow yourself spiritually, just like meditation does. You just need to be sure you have really found your lp, otherwise, sooner or later, it will just act as an hindrance and find it doesn't really have anything to do with growth and a conscious life. Meditation should not be an obstacle to your lp, one should empower the other, they go hand in hand.

"God" is all that always is, and that which is not, is duality and non duality itself, it is everythig and nothing. It's all that I mentioned until now but at the same time not, because it is indescribable, you can only be it, if you really want to "know" it. You are merely nothingness, but yet, you can take a form, you can manifest yourself. It is mindblowing. It is all a miracle, that's how I feel whenever I approach "God". "What does it do to be instantly defined as god?" People define it as "god", because this is the word which expresses omnipresence, omnipotence and omniscience.

Meditation can be a distraction if you don't know what you are actually doing. You will feel the need to meditate, to stay in silence as you'll grow. If the practice the individual is doing is just that, a "practice", a habit, then, indeed, he/she will undoubtedly turn the meditation itself into confusion. The potential of it will never come to the surface. "This makes somewhat sense to me, as i feel like you are putting bandaids on wounds that have to be examined and felt." Traumas, conditionings, getting rid of all the toxic beliefs, inevitably require much more than meditation, even if it still remains one of one's most reliabe refuges.

I can give you two pieces of advice: if you're in this by a quite long time, is by looking back and see where you are right now, how many things you learned, acquired and by thinking how many unknown things are still there. Unknown things, but also things that you intuitively know will make you be more "perfect". The second advice is by visualizing your higher self. Stay relaxed, preferably in bed, put some music, it helps a lot, and just think about your future self, your higher self. If you just relax and have the desire to visualize, the images will come spontaneously, you will just know how it looks like.

you need to grow yourself, to develop yourself, if you don't do this, your desires will stay in the same place, the egotistic, hollow place. as you'll grow you will come to the conclusion, in fact, the big realization that nothing is meaningful but just helping others. when you will come to this realization, you will start to use that which you have found to like (lp) in helping others. keep continuing developing yourself. i do not advice you to force yourself to love others, force yourself to realize something which you actually do not understand etc, because you will not learn anything, you will just feel miserable, not right. just develop yourself, be cautious to the traps, become gradually "the strongest version of yourself".

Do what your intuition says. Do it if you like it very much. If you like it very much, you will start to know naturally what to do, where to go. do you feel "power"? do you feel a whole different/special energy running through you? do you feel the knowing of it, being your "purpose" in this life? you could spend all day doing it and not feel like "wasting time", in fact growing in some way? don't think too much. have trust in yourself, in your intuition. do what makes you feel better, and spend time with that. develop that which makes you feel better also, develop yourself, because these things are in a strong relation with each other. one empowers the other. do what you intuitively/naturally like, do it with sincerity, lack of thoughts, worryings, leave "yourself" aside and immerse yourself in that which you feel pleasurably special and somehow unknown.

Hi! Those people will face the consequences. Because every decision one takes have a consequence. People underestimate the importance of every moment, of every second and every decision they make in their lives. People underestimate, in general. What you can do is to continue to work on yourself. It is all about you. It is not about others. It never was about others. You didn't started on this journey for others, you started for yourself. You should grateful you stepped out of the circle they are still in. And you should be grateful that you are more conscious and you are making progess... and some day you will be truly able to help them. You made progress, they are still in the same place. Yes, this is really good you are starting to see this, is normal. You will start getting on better terms with them naturally as your consciousness will grow, as you grow yourself. Right now the right thing to do would be to direct your attention on your emotions, on your temper. You are getting easily angry on them etc., your bad habits are starting to show up. Be grateful. Start on developing your compassion. Observe them, feel them. See they are just behaving. They don't know what they are doing. They are acting and behaving as best as they can, just like you do right now. Develop yourself and you will see that you will start having more empathy towards them and not get angry at them. You will see that you will arrive to a point when you will feel love for anyone (and also the other creatures around you).

I have something unique to show to the world, an idea which was never exploited before... but I don't know how to promote my idea. I'm reading some business books and it feels like I'm wasting my time. Maybe it's the books, or maybe it's really a wrong way of getting to know how to promote my idea. I don't know how to develop it... Is this a common "symptom"? Is this a common symptom in this "path"? I'm a begginer in this field. I know maybe I sound stupid... but whatever information I read, it just feels like I'm getting nowhere. What is wrong? I don't need "direct" solutions. I think... what I really want to know is... if this is normal? To don't know where to go, how to do it... I am also afraid to start being part in this "business" world... Even if, let's say, in the future I will know plenty of information (and know how things work), I still feel like I will be devoured by the other people in this field. I am also afraid of people to take advantage of me and my idea/ steal it. Can someone give me some advice? If something's vague in my post I will explain again.

Hi! Thanks y'all for the answers. It's a service. It will raise people consciousness and will raise their awareness of what they may become, and not only that... it will cover many many things. I don't know how to promote this service... and, like i said, I'm also afraid of someone to take advantage of my idea. Well... honestly, this is a big problem for me. (I always think beforehand to avoid any "fatal" step) I deeply care for this service (and my passion at the same time), so... yes, what is important is to let it guide you, not fear. Like I said, I always think beforehand... that's how I am, in any field... And I think is good for anyone to do this. I really have the motivation to step in this field, because I know I will help many people, but it is more a fear of people that maybe they will easily take advantage of me. Why bother about the "not so smart" people? Let's think just about the possible dangers to be able to avoid it. The thing is, is that I am a begginer in this field of business. Just in this field. My idea and what I do can be very well executed, but afterwards I also must promote it, and in this field of business there are people way more smarter than me, that can take advantage, because I don't know so many things about business. I'm afraid of the smart people. And I don't think it is a good idea to spend years learning about business and just then promote your work. @Spiral May I ask you, what is the field you are specialized in? (or want to be)

Hello all. Recently I just started feeling this fear of letting go of ego. I see through the identification and also see the bullshit and I know I have to let go and have the urge to do so, but at the same time I have this fear... And I read somewhere about the dark night of the soul and stages etc and after seeing the possible cosequences I am not sure if I want to let go completely yet, even if I know it is the right thing to do, deep down, I know this, but I have 16 years old and at the same time I also want to pursue the career I want and if I focus on the disintentification I presume i will have many crisis-like days and it will hinder my motivation for pursuing the career... But at the same time I want to let go of the misery... what should I do? I don't know what will happen if I let go and I'm afraid for my future...

Thank you all for the responses. I got distracted by those informations and from seeing the reality. Thank you for your answers and reminding me about my true self.

Before I started all the enlightenment work, I was very mediocre, very "ok" with everything that was happening to me, the awareness on me was very, very low. I wasn't even conscious of the place I was, I wasn't conscious of... anything, so I was all right with everything that was going on, because I didn't had the capacity to see my anxieties, my fears. And that was almost a year ago. But after making "progress", my awareness raised and everything turned upside down. My anxieties and "problems" just came out and I see them very clearly, so everyday I am depressed. I became depressed, and this is happening from almost october. I'm facing my fears and anxieties and I don't know what to do. I need a guide. I was thinking about raising my awareness more and just drop these fears, because it is just ego, an identification, but I'm also thinking about this shadow work, to just feel the sadness and ask myself why I give all these things importance. But at the same time I feel it is all in vain, because I can't get rid of something that doesn't exist. Why asking if it doesn't exist? And I started recently to be aware of the present, like, everytime... but all my anxieties are still there, even if i know they are just absurdities and without sense. Everytime I feel like I'm moving in circles with this sadness... It is stupid that I can not do what I want because of these fears. They are preventing my creativity and my happiness. When I wasn't conscious, even if I was miserable, I still was happy in some moments and had the creativity that now I'm struggling with to do something to come out. I observed it only comes out when I'm not thinking about myself, when I have no ego, so no anxieties and I just feel good with myself, I just let it all out, no identification. But outside home(school, society), when I'm not alone, the calmness and egolessness that I have accomplished just go in vain. I knew myself to be very energic, but now, I'm the opposite, and this is very depressing for me. I just want to let go...