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The vision. You have to habe a vision. My best advice for you is to take the life purpose course and finding your life purpose. Start getting experience. Start raising your consciousness.

This is my first motivation book I read at the at of 12.

Meditation that can be done secretly

@Leo Gura The website and blogs could be made to use less data by making an app for it. You are doing great work Leo.

Leo who is your favorite historical inspirational leader?

Loving yourself and your demons and sins will give you freedom from real evil. Self acceptance will change your life.

By letting go of your need to know. Ask if you can let go of your need to know.

@Leo Gura Is it possible for some folks to be enlightened by birth like the son of god kind of such like Jesus?

This is outside logic.

OMG.. This is something miraculous guys.. I have been doing mindfulness with labelling for the past 2 days as much as possible and I just sat here and a mosquito bit me and I was just mindful of that mosquito bite but then the mosquito was not at all going away. It was there. I did not do anything. I just felt into the bite sensation. And then the sensation was gone and the mosquito was gone and there was no pain or irritation. What was that?

Once a butterfly did the same?

@Leo Gura In this self actualization journey I often hear people say stuff like- "Is it safe to do this meditation and books alone? You need a group of people or special guidance or only a one-to-one spiritual teacher to help you do this weird spiritual stuff." Or something like "reading too many books or meditating too much is bad. Excess of anything is bad". I mean my motivations are not neurotic. I am a happy dude who is intrinsically motivated to meditate and read self help. And I am not addicted to meditation. I am intrinsically inspired by these things. What do I say to those folks?

City of Joy-Kolkata,India?

I am going to do shadow work on my own and I have started reading a book called "Romancing The Shadow". I will do more research and get started soon. I feel a resistance to reading about shadow work. I have been a victim to the shadow with video game addiction and I keep falling off track. I start to self sabotage and do low conscious things. Please leave any advice you can give.

Shadow work may help

I heard people say that going to the gym builds character. I myself experienced improved self control and more calmness. How do you think it improves character?

How to take life less seriously?

Please don't give me the cliché answers like "Just be yourself" or "Be frank" . I am an introvert and in the real world I find it hard to be around large groups of people. But I realise I am also an introvert in the internet. I mean my fingers swet when I am typing the words and then I start thinking about what others would think. I may be a "internet introvert". Please give me some self help advice.

@Loreena How? Why do you think so?

Buying the book list has been one of the best decisions in my life I have ever made. I can't even imagine how I could find those books anywhere except from Leo's book list. The variety and quality reviews that Leo provides with each new book is gold in the long run. This is a real investment!!

Watch Leo's video Keep an open mind

@Joseph Maynor @Stoica Doru Well I think I sometimes come to chill out on the forum and I simply learn a lot of things from the users just by reading the posts

Leo, I know that you told us to have a solid epistemic foundation and a big picture understanding but being a newbie I feel very confused and I usually misinterpret things. Only after I have done some mistake do I realize that I misinterpreted the depth and nuances of the theory in certain topics in your videos.

Neurosis is one big obstacle that I face. It robs me of my peace of mind. Whenever I do any serious work like studying or writing a project ,thoughts both positive and negative keep coming up constantly not letting me focus. And then the rest of the day I would have serious monkey chatter that does not let me even make any sane decisions. My Shadow aspect which happened due to childhood traumas. I want to work hard and achieve my goals but my neurosis kills me from the inside. I mean its not like I am lazy. Its not like I keep resisting or that I can't sit down to begin the work. The problem is inside me. The neurosis, the shadow, the part of me that just seems to hold on to the past. I sometimes get scared of myself when I look in the mirror. Knowing that my only enemy is me and that its not the world that I need to fight but only me. The more personal development I do the more I realise that I am responsible for the quality of my life. But this "I" is divided inside me. Facing my inner demons is way harder than facing my outer obstacles.

Here is a desktop themepack I have uploaded with pics from Leo's "The Gallery Of Infinity" video- The Themepack File I am just sharing my wallpapers. It not for any commercial purposes.