Truth Addict

There is only one ego, and that is imagination. It's creative, sneaky, and unexpected. You cannot capture the ego with the ego

Please don't, the night king was cool too ?

@Flatworld Crusades Oh, don't worry a bit about it. It was way too cool for the internet to take ? And welcome to the forum ? ❤️

Hehe, there's only the present moment, stop wasting your time and go look for it.

@Joseph Maynor Highest 2.0 ?

@Flatworld Crusades Answering your questions will make you even more confused. Because they make me confused. Instead, live your life, and if you like do some practices. I don't have any better answers.

@DrewNows ?? I don't want to learn, I'm happy with my beliefs.

@theking00 Exactly! Now the next step is to realise that this insight is also meaningless, and then live for the experience of life, accepting whatever is.

@DrewNows Whatever experience or understanding we have, it will eventually become a memory. What is a memory but a fantasy? Why do we place so much value on it? Isn't that biased? Why are my personal experiences truer than others'? If not, then I can trust their experiences too, and that's what we call a belief.

@EvilAngel Prayer is very powerful if you believe in it. You can do and become whatever you want through prayer. Although without believing, there's no prayer at all. Direct experience is horseshit and no better than a belief.

Me too ❤️ Hehe, there's no difference between belief and fact, that's a belief and a fact. Think about it ? ❤️

Sorry, wrong quote. I don't want to play that game ? Not anymore ?

@DrewNows This is very beautiful! ❤️

@DrewNows The ideal you're talking about is kind of hard, maybe even impossible to achieve. You basically can't be alive without separating yourself from environment. So, you can't lose the self entirely, although you can make it less important. You're still seeing a duality between self and other, and thinking that by doing that you're avoiding duality. But actually, that's not the case, you're still thinking dualistically, and that's why you find confusion in being a self. You can't not be a self, stop trying to not be who you are. Stop resisting. If you accept the separation, then there would be no resistance, and therefore no more conflicts. ❤️

@DrewNows I see, but I don't view thought as evil. I view it as necessary. Conflict is unnecessary, you can think all you want without conflict. You can love without fear, but you can't fear without Love. ? ❤️

@DrewNows Love is not an emotion, it can materialise as an emotion, that emotion can take different forms, fear, anxiety, lust, hatred, love, anger, depression, etc... But it is an absolute quality of reality. Conflict comes from resistance, fear doesn't. So, to end psychological fear is to stop resisting completely (including the thoughts). Still, it takes time to get rid of the old patterns.

@DrewNows Right, but in both cases fear comes from Love. Right? Fear is healthy, conflict isn't. Fear comes from Truth, conflict comes from delusion. Although in the end, even delusion comes from Love, exceeding love for something imaginary.

@DrewNows There's still a deeper level that we could see. Fear exists to serve its purpose. The purpose of fear is security or protection. If protection isn't love, then I don't know what is. The "us" that fear is protecting is the light that is inside of us. Why don't we say instead that the sense of danger is the false one? Right now, are you safe or in danger? That's how it must work in order to protect you. Don't hate the player and don't hate the game. ❤️

Why does fear exist? And what is its purpose? What is it protecting? What is protection?

I fall awake

Who's detaching?

Yes. But why does it matter? Every emotion is fear-based. And fear itself is coming from Love, and Love is an absolute, so...

@SQAAD From God's perspective, perfection does not even exist. God is just being what it is. Perfection is a concept made by the mind for the human beings so that they can see value in different ways, something is perfect, other things aren't, etc... When Leo talks about Perfection with a capital P, he means from the perspective of an enlightened human being, who happens to be in alignment with God. Really, it doesn't matter to God what you think or say about his work, it only matters to you and your happiness as an ego. The more you drop your judgements and self agendas, the more happy you become. So, choose wisely, and with balance.

@Nivsch Healthy vs. unhealthy is a larger topic than spiral dynamics. And it's highly relative. I think it's better to introduce the concept of ego to your friend, so that he understands what healthy vs. unhealthy actually means. Also try to show him that SD is just a model, and that it isn't the truth. I sense that he's thinking of the model literally, without understanding that it's very flexible.

God can't look in Its eyes without laughing