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Sleeping is giving in, No matter what the time is. Sleeping is giving in, So lift those heavy eyelids. People say that you'll die Faster than without water. But we know it's just a lie, Scare your sons and scare your daughter. People say that your dreams Are the only things that save ya. Come on baby in our dreams, We can live our misbehavior. Every time you close your eyes Lies, lies! Every time you close your eyes Lies, lies! Every time you close your eyes Lies, lies! Every time you close your eyes Lies, lies! Every time you close your eyes Every time you close your eyes Every time you close your eyes Every time you close your eyes People try and hide the night Underneath the covers. People try and hide the light Underneath the covers. Come on hide your lovers Underneath the covers, Come on hide your lovers Underneath the covers. Hidin' from your brothers Underneath the covers, Come on hide your lovers Underneath the covers. People say that you'll die Faster than without water, But we know it's just a lie, Scare your son, scare your daughter, Scare your son, scare your daughter. Scare your son, scare your daughter. Now here's the sun, it's alright! (Lies, lies!) Now here's the moon, it's alright! (Lies, lies!) Now here's the sun, it's alright! (Lies, lies!) Now here's the moon it's alright (Lies, lies!) Every time you close your eyes Lies, lies! Every time you close your eyes Lies, lies! Every time you close your eyes Lies, lies! Every time you close your eyes Lies, lies! Every time you close your eyes Every time you close your eyes

The point of life is to LOVE LIFE. Love Life. Go all the way!

What is mature spirituality? This is the most important question I am asking myself with regards to the spiritual aspect of my life. I notice on this forum that we are coming from many different paths: religions, genders, identities, cognitive capacities, Trauma histories, age groups, etc When you mix us all in a forum talking about such lofty subjects it gets rather complicated to talk and understand what we each mean. I think a common goal that rings true to Actualized.org videos and teachings is that what we are trying to do is develop a mature spirituality using the best methods to do so. Many of us taking on this massive challenge are starting at low levels of development. We are so low in development in fact that we cannot fathom how developed a human can become spiritually, cognitively, and creatively. We develop a spiritual maturity that looks different at each part of our journey. If we are really just starting out with Actualized.org material, or have little experience studying philosophy, and spiritual topics such as God, awakening, different states of consciousness, infinity, paradox etc... It makes sense to be really humble, patient and relaxed learning about these things. It also makes sense to go slow, be extremely cautious and ensure you are going about your progress in a mature and safe way. If you make mistakes, take 100% responsibility and become wise. I think it's important that we go slow, take our time and focus on asking ourselves the questions... 1. Is this really true? 2. What do I know for sure? 3. What have I directly experienced? 4. What Don't I really know? 5. How can I learn more? 6. How can I become more conscious? 7. How can I become more loving? 8. How can I become more spiritually mature? 9. How can I communicate about spiritual matters in a mature way? 10. Could my saying God is real just be a belief or identity I've created? Or is my belief their is no god just a belief or an identity I've created? 11. What is the difference between absolute truth and relative truth? 12. How many books have I read on spirituality? 13. Am I sure I am mature enough for spirituality at this point in my life? 14. How do I make sure to balance all the areas in my life?

I want to improve my explanation of Qigong. I’m novice level right now. I want to master it

Damn, just had an insight into the seed of existence

I have gained insight into something very profound. This will take years for me to flesh out.

Systems Chaos Retards

Just going out more

I want to honour my life and my creative spirit. I want to rise above survival and mediocrity. It’s going to take discipline and time.

Most don’t. 99.9% don’t I think.

@AmandaPanda Simply search Podcasts on personal finance and try a few. Developing your financial psychology is very important.

https://youtube.com/@CalebHammer?si=njrGv85pswWGD6NY

Can’t ground this stuff in authority figures.

Foundational Habits: 1. Review Personal Finances Excel sheet, update and improve it on a regular basis. Use the sheet for recording expenses and income on a monthly basis. Do your best to do personal finance with extreme self honesty, patience, constant improvement. Set financial goals. Get, live and stay debt free. Develop an emergency fund, then save. Supplement this basic task with reading books on personal finances and wealth building. 2. Keep home environment clean, bed made, floors swept and mopped etc, 3. Plan your to do with a calendar and a Trello board 4. Eat healthy food, in a healthy way 5. Get enough sleep 6. Develop a work ethic. Balance work and rest.

This is the sign of spirit egos no different than those who are not spiritual. Really, a deep spiritual depth with a strong psychology and robust set of experienced makes you very open. This openness breads maturity as you make distinctions within an open mind. Nothing should really offend an authentically spiritual person. Though, in practice this may not happen at all times.

Remember to be kind, and allow yourself to question your interpretations of things. Being open and closed in a calm cool way. Realize this is a thread about conflict, so some degree of disagreement, different interpretations, confusion, etc is normal. As long as we remain relatively kind and respectful to each other given the nature of conflict things are going well here.

My main take aways of Ram Dass work is the importance of love, embracing old age and dying, dealing with suffering, the complexity of family life, and his down to earth way of making you feel like he is lovingly going through the same as you are.

Reading the book Cosmic Nutrition by Mantak Chia found this quote ”The Oneness (Wu Chi) splits and becomes two. These two are the poles and energies of yin and Yang. They emerge continuously from this point within the expanse of infinity as a result of the endless movement within the primal sea. By their combination and interplay, the yin and Yang give rise to all forms that inhabit the world of the relative universe. Thus, all antagonistic complimentary dualisms of the phenomenal world are but the two faces of the front and the back of one ultimate reality”. Wow, Chinese medicine has quite the epistemic foundation.

Quote from “Be as you Are” By David Godman and Ramana Maharshi “The Self This is the term that he used the most frequently. He defined it by saying that the real Self or real “I” is, contrary to perceptible experience, not an experience of individuality but a non-personal, all inclusive awareness. It is not to be confused with the individual self which he said was essentially non-existent, being a fabrication of the mind which obscures the true experience of the real Self. He maintained that the Self is always present and always experienced but he emphasized that one is only consciously aware of it as it really is when the self-limiting tendencies of the mind have ceased. Permanent and continuous Self awareness is known as Self-Realization”

Boing ing ing

🤗 dat skin glow

@sholomar eggs are the bomb The only animal product I buy regularly

Non-duality is very paradoxical How is it I can reach that state and then time is real? Or it continues. This I find a miracle

@Metapath wow, neat

All in time my friends