Intraplanetary

This is a goodbye. Barbie Girl found her Flow.

“Nature can seem cruel, but she balances her books.” — Alison Lurie Mother nature is abundance and generosity, the embrace of the infinite amount of life forms. Life giver and taker. Pure perfection, Breath-taking beauty. Maybe, the acceptance of selfishness and cruelty as part of yourself and life is what missing and it causes this conflict within your mind and you project this as inherently bad when it's just part of the bigger whole where all dualities collapse.

It's part of the journey to feel this way. When you discover more and more of the depth of existence and see how shallow majority of people are it just takes time to adapt. The hardest thing for me is balancing the spiritual and material. I'm always figuring this out. we're Gods

nice one. looking forward

This is short but so good. I'm always trying to look for some exceptional feelings to get me going with stuff when in fact we have to face the reality of boredom and tediousness when doing some work.

For example, does the construct-aware stage automatically grantees that you meet your basic needs and have material well-being? Or in other words, when your ego development is high, do you become highly functional, hence fulfil your needs with ease? Or Could it be the case that a highly aware person actually struggles with life? Including finances, relationships maybe even mental health? Can a person be construct-aware/unitive but can’t get his/her shit together in other areas of life? I’m 29, still young (maybe depends) and I know there is no way for me to go back and not continue on the spiritual path. And, I believe I still have enough decades to develop my ego to at least the construct-aware stage. Or at least I would like to think that and it's my aspiration. However, I still haven’t got my shit together financially as I’ve been struggling with a whole bunch of emotional stuff from a very early age and it’s been my main preoccupation to free myself from myself. I feel I don't have a place in the world in terms of a career. I've recently just finished university and have very little professional experience. However, spiritual work doesn't help me with motivation about going and conquering the world. In fact, the more I grow spiritually the more I become disinterested with the realities of the society and most of the people. I see all the BS out there and I feel inauthentic when for example in the interview I'm asked talk about competition, targets, money, achieving, etc … makes me shake. How do you balance spirituality and survival? Don’t your open loving heart and clear mind kill the drive for money, competition and motivation to live in today's society? And without those, isn't quite hard to adapt…?

Life work does not need to have an emotion of passion involved. You can do your life work and be detached from it. Where there is passion involved (and if something goes wrong with your life work) there will be suffering because passion = suffering. Freedom - True Liberty is the higher goal. It's Cosmic. ---------------- case closed. stop chasing after passion

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From the Spiritual point of view on passion: Dispassion: absence of passion, coolness, independence, freedom.

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I remember on a meditation retreat, a while ago ago, I was talking with a german woman who told me that word passion in german translates as suffering. Also, latin root 'pati/passio' means suffering too. Think about this. Passion is too emotionally heavy and it's unstable. It's an attachment. It's too loaded and yes it's cringy. Passion can be felt for the good and bad, passion can be dark, and it can consume a person, and it's contagious. Many people said they like passionate people they're inspiring, etc, but passionate attitude can be used for the wrong things so don't assume that passion is always a good thing. ''Passion chokes the flower Till she cries no more Possesing all the beauty Hungry still for more'' I believe that a calling or a unique signature would be more appropriate way at finding your true selves. We just don't have a collective level of consciousness yet nor the education system where this could be thought from an early age. Remember this, there is something off with depending on emotions; and passion is one of them.

There are emotions first, and then thoughts. By letting go of emotion you automatically letting go of thought patterns and unconscious believes. People have a lot of repressed emotions stored in their bodies which manifest in dysfunctional thought patterns and believes. In order to grow a person needs to let go of/remove emotions by first allowing them to surface and by feeling through them. In this way they are being transcended and the mental aspect then is also changed. This is how we go through the range of emotions and develop ourselves. The broader the range of the emotions we experience, the more emotionally intelligent we become. Now, moving forward, it is not only enough to feel emotions, the next step would be to consciously manage them which would require to rise above them and not be affected by them. This quiet nudge can come through the mind as well, and not like an emotion. Consciousness is prior to emotion as well. Consciousness is the Mind, The Infinite Intelligence where logic and emotions are transcended. Perhaps, there could be a state where we could consciously decide what to feel rather than be affected by emotions unconsciously as we are now, good or bad.

Exactly, I can see your point of view, and there are so many other ones. And there is surely no one way fits all. We find what works for us personally. And this thing about emotions.. I'm exploring and figuring this out. to rely heavily on emotions in general, there is something off about it. Maybe when we'll be more advanced we get to pick and choose what emotions to feel rather then be affect by them randomly.

I'm still not convinced that it applies all the time nor that i can be proven. I keep an open mind on the matter instead. Maybe a calling would be more accurate word to describe something that is like your fingerprint in this world which is also more rare thing to discover while passion is an emotion which is not entirely essential to make your life deeper or more profound and it can come and go.

I adapt my thinking style depending on the situation. I'm both emotional and logical. I can actually see that higher development lead to emotional non-attachment and higher intelligence from the mind. To rely heavily on your emotions is not the way. I'll discuss this in more depth in the future when I have more experience with it, but I can already see that rising above your emotions is what get us higher. And here everyone talking about heavy reliance on emotions when choosing a life path. I'm not so sure, hence I discussed the alternatives. A person can choose a path from purely logical reason, get good at it and then get a feeling of true joy and satisfaction. It does not necessarily need to begin with a special emotion of passion in this case.

haha what do you know, you only got one perspective anyway

kiss my sweet @ss you know nothing

haven't watched these so not sure

haha why? That's how the Unity would look like on the advanced material plane.

From even a higher view, let's say that the only thing that really matters is contribution and service. Imagine we live in an advanced world where we all make a contribution to the planet or planets and we all play a role in providing a service. We are already highly advanced beings who have risen above emotions and can observe them from above and work with them without attachment and we are highly intelligent too. In this case, the only thing you would want is to find a niche where you could contribute and it wouldn't even matter what that would be because you are no longer led by your emotions, you're in charge of them. The most fulfilling thing is just to provide a service in an exceptional way, no matter what that would be. It would not be your choice exclusively, you would just pick something where is the need. Emotions, your passions, your needs, your desires are all removed, only the service for the highest good remains. Picture a bee hive.

And so it comes and goes and people often jump from one passion to another never really committing nor mastering any skill or field. Emotions are important but managing your emotions and rising above your emotions is as important.

just to clarify - it doesn't matter who said the words in the video. The message is only important to which I agree that passion is overrated; I already shared different points of view and alternatives to that of searching for passion.

You put a passion on the pedestal, it's overrated, in my opinion. You give these exceptional examples of a dying mother and a layer who supposedly missed a life opportunity for choosing law career over becoming an artist. I'm not denying the fact that we do things because we find them interesting; and in my opinion that is more than enough to commit and get going, go get bored, get tedious, get frustrated. It'll be difficult. Stop looking for a feeling of passion and excitement and fun. Boring is what you need. BORING IS GOLD. It's such an important part of the development just to embrace this part of reality without trying to make things more passionate, more exciting. Life may take you to surprising paths and destinations so it's important to be flexible and open minded along the way. But stop chasing after this special feeling of passion and instead pick on something that is available and do what is necessary to develop a skill, become good at it, enjoy at performing it and allow the possibilities to come in. Let me add this. That lawyer person you gave an example who chose law career instead of becoming a talented artist and he assumingly missed his life potential because of that. Now flip the script and imagine that the same person one day asked himself, what world needs more an exceptional artist or an exceptional lawyer? Would I contribute to the world more by becoming an artist or a lawyer? The same person would come with the answer as becoming an exceptional lawyer would do more good in real life situations than becoming an artist. Passion can be self-centered, and becoming someone that the world needs is more selfless and I would guess may be even more fulfilling. You see, it goes both ways. As you can see, passion may work for some, being of a service and doing what it necessary may be more fulfilling and inspiring for others, purely mastering a skills may give the most satisfaction for others. Passion is overrated, it's not so important, however, for whoever it works, good.