Share your insights

[Terell Kirby]

What have been some of your more profound insights from doing self actualization work?:

A few:

• Reality as a mental construction-power of re-contextualization & interpreting reality in ways that open up new possibilities and opportunities.
• Understanding bias- grasping reality is filtered thru lens of egoic bias and projections. Grasping how biases serve us, moving closer to objective stance on things
• Radical openminded ness-importance of cultivating the ability to entertain truths within contradictory perspectives. All perspectives are True in that they exist as they are, for themselves 
• Consciousness more fundamental than knowledge. Understanding limits of knowledge as gatekeeper to fundamental Consciousness. Deconstructing rational systems as a means to influence one’s life to be more holistic, integrated and grounded in first order experience.
• Embrace of Death as a transformative experience-doing it right doesn’t lead to suicidal ideation, but a zest for life, making a most of life while it’s here.
• Metaphysical structures of reality are as follows: higher order Intelligence working toward Divine Union in all partial perspectives. Life as a fragment of Universal intelligence that breaks off, only to return to Source once it is lived through. Importance of being in service to Higher Order Intelligence.

 

[Yimpa]

Keep being you. Nobody does you better than you. You don’t need permission to be you. Or rules on how to be you. 

You rule!

[theleelajoker]

@Terell Kirby

IME/IMO, your first three bullets are HUGE 

For me it's currently also:

• I don't know. Especially, I don't know what I don't know 
• I rely on superior intelligence beyond my personal mind for long term planning. I set an intention and then let "it" do the "how" and "when". I focus on the moment
• Thoughts are in most situations not necessary and rather making life more difficult. Focus on the raw sensation within the body 
• Every thing I need right now is in my currentl field of awareness
• Believes can be replaced like a new t-shirt in the morning 
• "It" knows everything. 

[Natasha Tori Maru]

1. I self-generate my own suffering.

2. I self-generate negative emotion.

3. Feeling is one of the most intelligent aspects of survival. Also, self-knowledge.

4. I have no control. I take action on the top priority thing (or highest % to influence outcome) to push kinetic energy toward a potential outcome. I just stay the course and engage with the flow of life. Have the wisdom to know when to act. Insane shit happens.

5. I do not know.

6. Fear is deception.

7. Anything I reject outwardly is within me, manifested in an unconscious way.

8. Any thought, concept, belief, frame, ideal etc is just a cataract between Self and reality, obscuring what IS.

[UnbornTao]

An insight is rarely transmitted when people think they understand the form an explanation or claim takes. Insight lies outside the bounds of one's world.

[Joseph Maynor]

On 1/29/2026 at 0:38 AM, Natasha Tori Maru said:

1. I self-generate my own suffering.

2. I self-generate negative emotion.

3. Feeling is one of the most intelligent aspects of survival. Also, self-knowledge.

4. I have no control. I take action on the top priority thing (or highest % to influence outcome) to push kinetic energy toward a potential outcome. I just stay the course and engage with the flow of life. Have the wisdom to know when to act. Insane shit happens.

5. I do not know.

6. Fear is deception.

7. Anything I reject outwardly is within me, manifested in an unconscious way.

8. Any thought, concept, belief, frame, ideal etc is just a cataract between Self and reality, obscuring what IS.

This is great.  I would say that moral indignation causes anger which is similar to your #6 which causes deception.  I kinda disagree with 1 and 2 to certain extent.  4 a little bit.  5 a little bit.  7 and 8 a little bit.  But this is just me.  I like 6 though.  We agree with #3.

[Natasha Tori Maru]

1 hour ago, Joseph Maynor said:

This is great.  I would say that moral indignation causes anger which is similar to your #6 which causes deception.  I kinda disagree with 1 and 2 to certain extent.  4 a little bit.  5 a little bit.  7 and 8 a little bit.  But this is just me.  I like 6 though.  We agree with #3.

I think regarding 2. I should have said 'feeling' in lieu of emotion, in retrospect. I occasionally become quite silly with feeling/emotion and switching them. To add more nuance I think I should have said 'My judgements are what generate my negative feelings'. Key word being 'judgement' and not simply 'discernment'. I failed to express this with enough accuracy, and this resulted in too much reductionism in the statement.

Overall the topic of feeling and emotion in this work has had the most insight for me.

I have found it is easier to address, allow and feel through emotions during my process to reach truth.

Far easier than any sort of controlling of the mind or thoughts, strangely.

This might not be the case with others. 

Thank you for your feedback, agreements & disagreements  

[Joseph Maynor]

1.  Ego is widely misunderstood in Spirituality

2.  Self-help and Spirituality are not mutually exclusive

3.  The intellect can't be sidelined in Spirituality consistently

4.  Feeling can't be sidelined in Spirituality consistently

5.  Intuition is more important than most people seem to know

6.  The there is no you thing gets old and starts to be used defensively

7.  The there is no separate self thing gets old and starts to be used defensively

8.  Morality matters to Spirituality

[LambdaDelta]

Just the one: Reality is naught but a mindfuck. In other words, God's Mind making Love to itself, for all eternity. All phenomena without exception are mindfucks, originating from God imagining it exists. Chemical reactions, collisions of celestial bodies, propagation of sound waves, and any other physical processes are all mindfucks. Self-deception, assumptions, confusion, conformity, bias, erroneous beliefs... mindfucks all the same. Every emotion, including, necessarily, surprise, is a mindfuck. Understanding or lack thereof is a mindfuck, so is having insights. Grasping how Everything is Nothing or that Unity is Multiplicity is a mindfuck, and grasping how you are grasping this creates a layered mindfuck. Spirituality is just a quest for ever greater mindfucks, whether you realize and/or admit it or not.
Why is doing any activity with awareness so exhausting? Precisely because in this limited state you've mindfucked yourself into, the depth & density of the recursion, interconnection, and self-reference is too much to handle, but there's always an apparently simpler mindfuck in the form of distraction to come to the rescue. I'm not saying anything particularly new here, merely wording it explicitly; if this text were a zip bomb, parsing it could lead to a headache, dismissal, agreement, a desire to argue, perhaps even a complete understanding of reality — any number of potential outcomes, all of which would of course be mindfucks.
Don't think too hard about it. Enjoy the Process.

Edited 6 hours ago by LambdaDelta

[Rishabh R]

I have a lot of insights from contemplation but I will share the ones which hit me out of nowhere.

.People are irrational

.People have widely different lives

.The hard way is better than easy way