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Awesome to hear. Bottom line is that every moment you choose what you want. There are two choices as I see it. You go deeper into the rabbit hole of existence. This means you fight your corner, play your role and do the best you can to climb the ladder of life. This is what almost everyone does and what we are taught to do since we were children. Namely construct the best dream imaginable and that is exactly what you are doing. The other choice is you break away from the mind and the ego and go the path less travelled. You live as a witness instead of a thinker. You learn that you are not a body but the body is a vehicle for awakening. You begin to journey back to where you came from. This is what spiritual work is about. In fact once you have broken out of the dream at that point you can begin to enjoy the dream again knowing that what happens doesn't matter so you might as well enjoy yourself and make the most while you're here. These forums have some super bright people who can give insights including of course Leo. Stick around and enjoy.

Your jealousy is less how another acts and more how you act. It's your insecurity being communicated. This makes someone more likely to leave you not less likely. You are trying to control their expression. Encourage them to look at whoever they want and tell them you like to do the same. Talk about what they notice and admire and you give similar feedback. This strengthens the relationship rather than weakening it. And it overcomes the root insecurity.

Key for me is discipline to stick to time limits, Seems 30 mins or 60 mins is optimal. Also be disciplined about which threads to read. I used to feel obligated to read a lot of the top threads. Now I browse more and am very selective. I do regard it more entertainment that improvement but this too has its place. I also keep updating the subs I follow to keep the content I see fresh. Overall I think reddit is the smartest never-ending conversation out there.

You chose this dream since you want the dream to continue forever. You want immortality and you want to be ruler of this whole universe. And each dream you have, following the annoyance of dying for a while, you seem to get closer to achieving these goals. And so you will keep on engineering dream after dream all perfectly designed to get closer to your goals. This dream is the best one you ever dreamed even if you are suffering mightily; you cannot deny the onward march of time and progress. Problem is here is never going to make you happy no matter how good it gets. Happiness is only possible in the infinite eternal realm of the absolute which you dreamed of abandoning. So like I said above, awakening is needed which shows one the truth and then enlightenment which returns one to truth. Does this resonate with you?

God doesn't dream. Dreaming would imply reality isn't enough. I am the one who dreams that I can be apart from god. Obviously that's impossible but god will allow a kid his dreams right? I am thus free to make up strange new worlds people and experiences however I please. This dream reveals how asleep or how awake I am. I didn't choose it, I constructed it. Asleep I fall deeper into the madness that I am here and awake I start to unwind all the silliness that this could be real. Every moment is a choice and in that sense I am choosing this particular dream. It's a great dream and not many of us extricate ourselves since the dream is too compelling. Welcome to the forum dream and nice cat by the way.

Peace and joy are what's called fruit of the spirit, sort of like presents that show you are on the right track. Don't stop there as they aren't the goal. The goal is what you are.

Yes you summarized well. Our priorities are what count: where we place our energy and how much flexibility do we allow in this. To be compatible means we have similar amounts to bring to the table. It is not so much material things that matter but more to do with priorities and values and maturity.

There is undivided effort and there is spreading yourself too thin. Some people spread themselves too thin because they are stuck in stuff they are immersed in. They say they are free but the reality is they are not. They delude themselves; they delude you. This takes time to discover. Both should be equally free.

Peace and joy are prerequisites for spiritual work. Peace is to kill duality; good bad black white pretty ugly all the same and don't attract me or repel me. Joy is I am now on track and setting aside the time to do the work needed; joy is exuding divine energy for the task at hand. Without these you can't do the work. The work is good and bad going from nothing to everything.

The younger you are the more you better meditate. Mfers to the left and right trying to corrupt you and con you and castrate you. You are a sitting duck. Take back your sovereignty and stop this legalised raping today.

I need pain since if it's all pleasure I keep on as apparent god of the universe merrily with nobody to interject otherwise. Don't stop me now, I'm having such a good time. 🎵 Pain is the necessary ingredient to realize I'm not god. Pain is the sign I have gone wrong since god is necessarily pain free - else he wouldn't be much of a god. Pain will be quickly investigated to see 1. it's an illusion and better yet 2. the one feeling it is an illusion. Identification is thereby corrected and awakening to me as one true god arises.

Step one is to understand the ego. It desires the universe, the separated reality, to exist forever. Even Leo subscribes to eternal dreaming as the truth. Ego will do everything to ensure this continuance and it does a magnificent job at it. Key is keep everyone asleep, since if you are not separated from me then I am not separated from you and whoops. Withhold love at end turn or in fact promote a fake form of love that will bring ownership, and control and sleepiness. Ego loves to hate and hates to love while truth loves to love and hates to hate. Ego is a tricky, slippery, devious little terrorizer but eminently comprehendible. Contemplate on such and self enquire deeply into the machinations of the ego in order to have a chance to defeat them

Reality has tons of suffering provided you want to keep on staying. It's trying to make you choose good. Good is an acrostic for get out of dodge.

There is joy, there is happiness. joy is first thing in the morning and happiness is last thing at night. Former is who you are and unconditional and later is conditioned, what kind of day you had. Joy is what you bring to the table and happiness is what that joy effects in the world around.

Agreed. Therein is the work. If we see it outside, we have created it within right?