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It's easier to look back and see one's strife with searing clarity than to look upon these walls closing inwards in the heat of the battle Everyone loves to romanticize their struggles yet shies away from dealing with the elephant looming in the room The task is a moment to moment one of choosing to uphold truth and withdraw from falsehood and all else is failure

For this to happen, false self needs to be crucified and from the ashes true self needs to be resurrected That's a death and arising that doesn't come out of thin air; it takes tremendous application and determination

You are saying this is instantaneous. For me readiness and earnestness is mandatory. Reminds me of the saying that enlightenment may be an accident but anyone can make themselves more accident prone. There are steps one can take and help one can receive. In this, existence has one's back at every step and will reward effort and devotion and to that end one has to commit whole-heartedly. The ego structure needs to be understood in totality before its unwinding can take effect. The reverse thought system - love instead of fear - needs to be implemented before the shift of perception can fully take hold. All the while one's true self is aiding and abetting and cheerleading and coaxing to make smooth one's journey. Help is definitely needed and required in my personal experience.

My take is that while awakening to higher self requires individual effort and introspection, it’s important to recognize that we are not isolated fragments. Progress necessitates leaning on one's higher self to help us move beyond our limited perception. Self reliance will typically lead to a cycle of self-reinforcement, where the very patterns we seek to overcome remain stubbornly intact. Openness to something greater - whether you view it as god, spirit, or higher consciousness - helps break these barriers of the lower self and allows for deeper clarity and mind healing. Without this connection, the journey can become circular, trapping us in the limitations we aim to transcend. Cooperation with this higher self, when understood not as loss of autonomy but as release from self-imposed limitations, becomes essential for experiencing a fuller, more expansive understanding of ourselves on the path to awakening. Hand over the reins to your higher self to put the lower self to bed once and for all,

I think I'm wrong vs. I think you're wrong Nobody else was ever wrong except me This is taking responsibility and awakening readiness If I see evil, it's my eyesight that needs adjusting

You are right but don't be the same as what you are against

Love is out to get me!

Number one, you need faith that there is more than a material world and that a spiritual world will reveal the absolute truth Someone needs to tell you this And if you don't have faith in it, you won't realize it

Yes true, but it is a crutch for the lame And you need it until you don't It is helpful initially since we have acquired a lot of faith in falsehood

Non-duality isn't faith or anything conceptual Faith is the stuff I assume as true Ultimately there is ego or there is god As ego one has faith in a million things Towards god, one needs faith in a different million things Choose sparsely and move gingerly Faith is the things I accept will get me to where I want to go Believe, investigate, keep/discard, rinse/repeat

Is there any ego that wants to die? That's the work Just don't say it out loud

My take is that here we are playing in the minor leagues Clear out all the human garbage accumulated over time How to do this is to forgive This means roll back the appearance - all that has been projected onto the screen See all in its essence of love This returns one to the major leagues - one's home of unity eternity and dazzling creativity And btw teaching corrects the projection too, since ideas shared are ideas reinforced Everyone teaches what they are, with and without words, and cannot do otherwise

💥 You are a patient and wise soul and I observe much growth in you over time I appreciate all your pointers very much

Welcome and good luck with it My rule of thumb: Anything serious do early in the day; If it's a side number, do it later on

Is this book essential or supplemental? What's my time frame for reading this book? / how many days shall I commit? What's my criterion for not completing this book if any? Is this body better scanned or studied? Is this a forever book or a forgettable book?

To use AI, make sure it is truly interactive If its you asking questions and it giving you 1000s of words of answers That's pretty much useless Conversations need to be equal to be fruitful Tell it what you think you know and ask it to respond using just as many words Laziness hurts you not the AI Make the AI be just a tad above the level you are at

Ego hasn't free will - as it is a satisfaction maximisation thought system It couldn't do anything outsides its interests You are not an ego however And to choose to be what you are, is the first step in free will In a nutshell, each moment is either ego's fear or spirit's love

yes precisely, thanks for your eloquence and insights ... Wolfram doesn't like to play second best

he was on Kurt's TOE podcast last month with Donald Hoffman and gave a pretty poor showing he obviously believes consciousness is emergent while DH's view is that it is fundamental

Fear is fragility, flaws, finitude, failures, foibles You are weak and sinking without trace Keep your friends close and your enemies closer

Morals are, don't do harm to yourself or others and are transcended early on the path The deeper rules concern helping oneself and others The hows the whats the whens

Everyone needs a nudge To teach is to demonstrate, to role model it Ultimately all need and all deserve Practically we have to be strategic With most of the world we are are sharing lies Namely duality With a few we share only truthful thoughts in actions conversations and helpful thoughts Spirituality is who you are walking home with

🌻 glad you enjoyed, its a snip from A Course in Miracles

Lust, like all the so-called 'seven deadly sins,' is rooted in a belief in magic - the illusion that something external can fulfill you or bring lasting happiness. It is perfectly permissible of course to engage in healthy sexual activity without being trapped and hypnotized by this illusion. The key is to understand that true happiness can NOT come from anything in the external world; Happiness is within oneself harmonizing with God, whereby we return to a state of oneness and innocence. When we admit this, we free ourselves from the belief that goals lie in the world, and instead, we rest in the peace and joy that come from our unity with God.

Have to realize that only those without children have the luxury of such charitable broad-mindedness The rest of the population are viscerally sickened by thinking of such people no matter how well controlled their appetites