EternalForest

Never. At best I'd feel equal suffering for both, but by default I'm going to look out for my own species first. Honesty, I find it disturbing for someone to feel little suffering while watching their own species get tortured, compared to an animal they can't even communicate with. If I was on a sinking ship, and could only save a cat or a guy, I'd save the guy.

Theory and practice are equally important, they must be done together. Once you've experienced enough to the point where you feel you could write a book yourself, then I'd say you could lay off the theory just a bit. But never stop completely, always have a curiosity for knowledge about you, it's one of most rewarding things you can have in life! But at the same time, recognize when its time for the rubber to meet the road.

What you think you want mentally and what you actually enjoy doing in practice can be very different things, especially if you haven't found your purpose yet. I'd explore a few things and figure out what it is that you enjoy doing in practice more than anything else, for you that may be studying to become a historian. Or it might be something else. But ultimately you must be true to yourself.

Very true. Though I'd like to add I personally find modern texts valuable because they're written in a way that's more relatable to me, from the writing style to the content itself; they feel relevant.

One of the best posts I've ever read.

@MsNobody "a survey carried out by MTV in January, which surveyed 1,800 men and women aged 18 to 25, revealed that nearly one in three men “were worried something [they’ve] done could be perceived as sexual harassment."" Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/dating-me-too-era-rules-sexual-harassment-flirting-a8314876.html

Thanks for sharing, wonderful message <3

Communal stages: Blue, Green, Turquoise Independent stages: Red, Orange, Yellow Therefore, it seems like stage Blue and Green are "underdeveloped" Turquoise, and Red and and Orange are "underdeveloped" Yellow. So ironically, if you look at it from the communal perspective, Yellow is farther away from "Turquoise mentality" than Green, right?. What are your thoughts on this?

@Leo GuraAgreed, fair point. Assuming Yellow fully embodied Green, their perspective would include the best of green, plus. I was just sharing an observation I was making from the communal standpoint.

@Freakyboo Women talk differently then men do, and there are many dynamics at play when a man approaches a woman, this can't be ignored.

@kingroboto Sometimes lack of sleep can give a certain euphoria and it's own flavor of awareness, at least in my experience. But that should be maybe a once a week or twice a month thing at most. What you want to be doing is getting up at the same time every day, no exceptions. Doesn't matter when you go to bed, but you HAVE to wake up at the same time. What this will do is make you naturally tired and want to go to bed earlier automatically.

@zambize If you found out you were in a prison, would you stay there because it made you happy? Perhaps the happiness you know is not true happiness, but rather what the prison has taught you happiness is. Luckily, the door is right there, open for you. Ignorance is not bliss.

@Serotoninluv Pretty much anything Christopher Nolan while we're at it haha!

Quite the contrary. In almost all of Leo's recent videos towards the end he makes a statement discouraging the formation of a cult around his ideas. "Don't turn Actualized.org into an ideology." "What you and I have is not a relationship." "Don't believe a word I say, confirm it for yourself."

If it was me I'd make that reading time, there's so much to read in so many categories, it's almost absurd how little time we have to even scratch the surface of what's out there.

@Wisebaxter Thanks for the response, glad you found it powerful and yep let me know!

Leo has no copyrighted content, so nope.

I only feel this way when Leo says things like "If you're not doing this, what else are you gonna do? What?". But in a way, he has a point, since you could make an argument that this work is some of the most fulfilling you could pursue. But at the same time, there's also technically no objectively most fulfilling life path and life is ultimately what you make it

Once you spend a lot of time journaling, talking to yourself, meditating, examining yourself and creating, the answer will be clear.

@ivory I have a tendency to try and "work things out" with toxic people and it often backfires on me. Any strategies on how to make this work, since I really want to do it, or should I just leave them be, even in the case of family?

@Wisebaxter So what's the verdict on Pure Moods?

@Strikr I understand, but for me Pure Moods actually puts me in a sort of blissful state where I can marvel at the beauty of life and beauty of joy itself. And I know it was a very popular album, but in this case it was popular for a reason because for me and many others, that music really does take you to some very high states. The music you linked is good as well, it reminds me a lot of silence, being so static and constant. You may enjoy ambient vaporwave as well, stuff like Telepath would appeal to you I also enjoy meditating to progressive house and trance The best trance to listen to imo comes from Armin Van Buuren's A State of Trance show, with nearly 1000 episodes, here's a site where you can download them all: http://www.asotarchive.org/

@Strikr Try meditating to Pure Moods Vol. 1, incredible!!

Don't worry about "brain rot", it may not have felt like you got results from all those hours, it may not feel that way, but you did make progress. Instead of these 3-5 hour marathons daily, I'd start with 20 minutes a day and then just live life and focus on your purpose. Bump it up to 40, then 60 after 6 - 12 months and then do a retreat every 6 months if you can. You're falling into the trap of the Obsessive on the Mastery path, trying to do too much, too soon all at once. This work is a journey, not a destination. Enjoy yourself, take it slow, and build yourself up when you feel ready

Both can be good. Music meditations put me on more of a journey and makes me see the beauty of reality and silent meditations tend to be more of an intense ending-of-a-movie, reflective sort of mindset.