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Good. Sticking to it is the key. Even weekends if I sleep late I still get up same time. Body can handle since it has sleep reserves. I really feel that sleep quality mirrors life quality. If you sleep good, life will be good. All else can fluctuate and not be bothersome. Good sleep is the true self care. I know many struggle with this so I sympathise with their plight. I hope you will get it sorted double quick.

Moving to a new city and adopting a new lifestyle does make sleep particularly challenging and it often suffers as a result. In any case, what has worked for me is to have the same bed-time every day (bar some weekend trips or outings when I will roll with what is happening). I sleep at 10pm and arise at 6am and have done this for many years. I am fortunate to enjoy deep quality sleep but I attribute this to a consistent routine. I am not a fan of naps since I would rather be dead tired at bed time - though I do switch into low energy slow mode after 5pm dinner when I pass time doing meditation, reading, scrolling, stretching and streaming. I feel worn out when I go to bed and am almost right away asleep. I enjoy sleeping as it gives me a good system reset and any body niggles will resolve themselves. My cat usually begins crying as soon as the sun rises which is annoying but I have nearly trained her out of this and if I am therefore awake I will rest peacefully until the alarm goes off. I rate my sleep quality high and feel energized and enthused for the day at hand. Hope some of this may help and wishing you good luck in your new endeavours.

World peace is cessation of hostilities until real peace. Someone is always going to want your stuff no matter how rich or developed they are. Real peace meanwhile surpasses understanding and is a change of eyesight.

For me part of the trap is that when we feel incomplete, we naturally become very self-centered because the mind is constantly trying to solve the nagging feeling of “something is missing in me.” Life starts to feel like one long attempt to finally arrange things correctly so we can feel whole, peaceful, special, or merely okay. I would suggest by contrast that completeness is not something we achieve through endless self-analysis or better life-management. It can become available in full when we cease mentally withholding from others the very things we want for ourselves. Were I to walk around seeing others as lacking, annoying, guilty, separate, more complete than me, or less worthy than me, then my own mind will remain trapped in that same energy. Other people are projections in our minds just as much as they are bodies in our world. When you genuinely begin recognising in others that same worth, depth, innocence, humanity, peace, inner value ... you want for yourself, something unmistakably shifts. It sounds paradoxical, but the qualities you make room for in others begin to light up in your own experience too. I would say that the answer may not be to become less self-centred by force of will, but rather stop treating yourself as an isolated problem that needs to be solved before life can flourish. TLDR: To feel complete, see me complete.

Believe the children. Heal the world. Watch Finding Neverland.

I'm 99% certain he carried out these monstrous acts. When people identify with a famous person they will not open themselves to believe they could do such acts, They will rather stay ignorant. So they can still enjoy the past pleasures in peace. These will get forfeited if he is guilty. Like there in no Gary Glitter or Jimmy Saville on YouTube. Let me enjoy the past in peace their subconscious mind says. Let me keep my fantasies of innocence. Mine and theirs. My past gets destroyed not just theirs. Let sleeping dogs lie. You can't convict the dead. People just want money. And so it goes.

One man's genocide is another man's thinning the herd so his poor kids can not starve. A murder in my neighbourhood is a devastating tragedy to all well-meaning people; Ten thousand Rohingya starving to death in a Bangladeshi refugee camp is a footnote on page 7.

He is correct from what I expereince. You believe in separation and so you see it everywhere. It is non-existent. It needs collapsing. This is the work. Witness/awareness is indeed duality. But it is the stepping-stone. It is the pre-requisite. It is the most you can do. It is an abidance in peace and a non-resistance of all that is. Then reality rushes in to your aid to shower you with truth and grace. You have become a fit vessel.

Everyone is angry not just you. What you need is the antidote. Forgiveness. You have to hold in your mind that nobody out here wants to be a murderer. That's how YOU stop being a murderer.

Yes excellent. I think we’re actually aligned on this main point. I myself also don’t want to land on a conceptual conclusion like “I am consciousness” and announce that as enlightenment. It does seem like that can become another position the mind holds onto, which indeed subtly creates a split rather than dissolving it. Where I think we’re fully in agreement is that whatever reality is, it isn’t something that can be captured or reduced to a concept. Like you said, it’s more like an openness to what has no limits, rather than us arriving at a definition of it. For me, the sole difference is more in approach than in aim. I do not try to define what I am, but I do find it most helpful, practically, to notice how identification with thoughts or fear seems to create the sense of contraction and separation. So the “not identifying” piece isn’t an absolute truth claim, but it's a way of not reinforcing that contraction. So I guess I’d say I shy away from trying to describe what reality ultimately is, but instead stop feeding what seems to limit it in experience. Beyond that, I’m fine leaving it open rather than concluding anything like “it is consciousness” or anything like that.

Be the KISA of every devil. Knight in shining armor. Every sinner needs a saint and every saint arrives a sinner.

High quality is how fast and reliably you can drop what you think you know, how you think you perceive (you don't receive a world, you give a world) and who you think you are. It's all borrowed garbage. Meditation is curative.

I do see what you mean about not wanting to create any extra structure or a separate observer. For me, the point of noticing thoughts and feelings isn’t to define what I am, but to train myself to stop automatically taking them as me. I’m not trying to hold onto a position like “this isn’t me,” just to loosen that reflex. In the same way, with fear, it’s not so much about whether it is me or not, but seeing how identifying with it and feeding it seems to keep tension and separation in place. So in my case I’m less interested in defining what’s true at an absolute level, and more in not reinforcing what creates that contraction in the first place.

Suffering via legion bearers of evil is coming to get you. Maybe bad maybe slight. You can't forestall or forego. It may come the day you are born or in a 100 years. That's alas random or at best out of your hands. So all you can do is make sure you and your kids wake up on day dot. Or as soon as possible thereafter. That's your only task. Welcome to planet suffering. You stand in the crosshairs today. Wake tf up my lovely. Put in the time. You will awaken one day so why not now.

Broaden your definition. Can you define religion?