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@Esilda Really excellent resources, thanks for sharing!

I know, it's so true - I'm working on it! Mind you, I think there are times when we need our own personal space, too, and as people awaken they often gravitate away from people with whom they're no longer a vibrational match (I've experienced this myself), I do think we need to be careful about who we associate with. That's the great thing about forums like this, you can find people who are on a similar sort of wavelength to you and you can help each other along I love this, this is such a mature way of looking at it

He really is, I stumbled across his teachings early on in my spiritual journey and I feel very fortunate that I did, I feel like his teachings gave me an important spiritual foundation Very interesting, thanks for that! I think I saw 'Tantra Illuminated' mentioned on here very recently (possibly by @Thought Art, though I could be wrong), funnily enough, I'll definitely check out those resources - thanks again!

You're very welcome, darl Couldn't agree more with this, I loved that you decided to share this with us, as harrowing and painful as it must have been for you. It was such a courageous thing to do, and I so hope it's been beneficial for you Absolutely agree with this. You went through a really awful thing, Charlotte, and you've had to contend with a lot of difficulties in your life besides that - you deserve all the compassion in the world, my darling. Oh I love this, I'll definitely try this! Thanks for sharing, @Marcel

I momentarily misread the title as 'Self = Wanker'. Ahem! - projecting, much?!

Oh, isn't that just the truth! Good grief, people can be exhausting! But, your vibe attracts your tribe, so they say - and I think I finally found my tribe And how dearly I love you all, you wonderful, beautiful people

The key word being, of course, 'was'. But never mind the person you were, my darling - look at the person you are : You may have been naive, as we all have been in our earlier lives - and believe me, I look back at some of my past behaviour and I almost die with embarrassment - but you found your way to maybe the most profound truth there is

I wonder if it isn't more a case of divine timing I completely get where you're coming from there, it's seemed that way to me, too. But I think what he's pointing to is the symbiotic relationship between heart and mind, how one affects the other.

I think I might have had you in mind when the idea of resharing it occurred to me, funnily enough! You're so welcome, I'm so glad you found it helpful Ooh now that is very interesting, I'd never thought of it like that! I love that, that makes a lot of sense to me - thank you for sharing!

@FlyingLotus Appreciate your perspective, I was probably viewing her through much too narrow a lens and you've helped me to see the bigger picture - thanks for that

Yes, exactly! Exactly, that's exactly it

God, how I love Florence Welch She's a force of nature and her passion and forcefulness intimidates me a bit sometimes, but it's so alluring at the same time

Yep, that sounds about right to me

Aww Esilda, Frank's a lucky lad I love that you have a cat called Frank, by the way

@Gianna Best picture ever! Oh yeah! I think most of us do build up a lot of resentment towards various things over the course of our lives, because we're having to curb our authentic selves to fit in - and our spirit wants to be free, it doesn't really like being confined like that. And often it's our parents who are feeding us the message that it's basically not all right to be the way we are, and, God bless us, we do tend to take that to heart. But it's not easy being a parent, to be fair, so I try not to judge them too harshly.

Oh yeah, I know exactly how you feel - I'm not loving that either, it does sound nauseatingly self-satisfied to me. Just the whole vibe I get from her... it doesn't sit well with me somehow, it feels phony. Absolutely agree! The difference between affected humility and true humility is glaring, true humility is so much more quiet and inconspicuous, and it doesn't seek validation because it doesn't need it.

Hard to know with your parents, though, just the hierarchical nature of the relationship (particularly in your formative years, especially if they weren't particularly conscious people - and so many parents aren't particularly conscious) complicates things and creates simmering resentments. It's something I'd notice in myself towards my dad, he could be doing something completely innocuous and it'd just piss me off to a pretty ridiculous extent Took me quite a while to come to terms with that.

She just never strikes me as being truly sincere, somehow, there's something about the way she comes across that I find off-putting. Maybe that isn't really fair - but she doesn't resonate with me, anyway.

I'm noticing various sensations in my body at the moment, particularly around the back of my heart - sort of around the area of my shoulder blades, I'm feeling quite a lot of energy in that area. The area around my sacral chakra also feels rather tender at times, in an oddly pleasant sort of way - the nerves in that area seem to clearing or something, I'm not quite sure. My root chakra also feels very open, which is a tad disconcerting - I know kundalini rises from that area, and it can be a very intense experience by all accounts. Anyway, I think it's all good, I think my nervous system's gradually becoming entrained to all the energy that's been awakened which is good, obviously.

It's just wonderful, mate, it really is, I'm so happy for you and Preety Breaks my heart to hear you say that, mate, honestly. But I understand, though, I was always harshly self-critical too - that's a trait that runs in my family it seems, I notice both my parents can be very hard on themselves. Some very painful wounds at the root of that sort of thinking, can be challenging to heal. Blissful dissatisfaction - I'll have to give that a try sometime

@Preety_India Cheers darl

@Marcel Nice list! A few more I'd add: Down-to-earth Sense of humour Doesn't take herself too seriously Empathic Is open-minded, but knows her own mind too

Lovely idea for a thread (A bit of Kyla La Grange too, brings to mind a song of hers that an ex-girlfriend shared with me that I love, 'Vampire Smile'.)