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Running is modern-day public flogging for me. Certified suffering and not much satisfaction. Personally I prefer jump rope. I do hour a day. According to AI it works the whole body and burns 800 calories - which I need since I sit all day. I ran most days for years but won't run again. If you have a good target to aim at like you do then running can be fine.

For me it is abusing the sacred. Sex used well can elevate and evolve one deeply. That's its purpose. https://ia903105.us.archive.org/18/items/alloshobooks39883p/Osho a.k.a. Rajneesh (312 Books)/From Sex to Superconsciousness.pdf

Yes life should better until the day you die. Keys in no particular order are MEDS - meditation exercise diet sleep. Improvement doesn't matter. Just show up and put in the time. Other people are fine just don't let them dilute you.

Stop comparing and stop complaining. Everyone is on their way home. When it is, is up to you. Stop looking at others except as a means of getting home. Just a heads up that if you exclude one person even an Epstein you will remain here spinning your wheels. Love don't compare. We are the same.

Good blog post today on this worth a read.

Casual sex is an oxymoron, the ultimate entrapment and obstacle for men as well as women. Nothing good can come of it. Except perhaps - good that's the last time I ever have to do that. Since I saw the deep damage caused. Mine even more than theirs.

Meet people where they are at. If they want gods and gurus, give them. While people believe they are a body, you have to teach accordingly. If you are a body, you cannot imagine God otherwise since you think you are the pinnacle. If you tell someone, they are God, the ego will hijack the idea and run amok. Steps, stages, signs and symbols are useful tools on the way to the wordless absolute.

Regret is the signature of every ego. I should have done things differently! No you shouldn't. You can delay realization yes but you can't stop it. Delay is to party here a bit longer with the hot chicks. God is fine. As the good book says: Nothing real can be threatened and nothing unreal exists.

Reality can be seen two ways. Most of us see through fear-tainted spectacles. Not because we choose it, but because it was ingested early and is reinforced daily. Through this lens, suspicion and scamming are are daily diet in every scene and screen. The world is dangerous. Everyone is a threat. Me I am a good person; the problem is always outside my front door. This is how we teach children, how we build society and is the frame in which we commend ourselves to ourselves, never pausing to question or even notice the lens operating. There is another way to see. It does not need denial of what is seen, only a willingness to look differently. I can wake up each day and put on love-tinted spectacles. I don't mean sentimentality. This is clarity in fact. Seen this way, every person is the universe expressing itself, compressing into a tiny form, carrying wounds, stains, and distorted eye-sight, doing its level best to survive, the same as everyone else. What I meet in the world is not apart from me. It is a reflection through me. Change the lens, reassemble the world. Fear recoils. Love recognizes. I am not stating moral doctrine. This is hard-won vision.

Two decent posts and subs perhaps worth monitoring: https://www.reddit.com/r/thesidehustle/comments/1qcizwj/spent_8_months_trying_to_crack_faceless_content/ https://www.reddit.com/r/passive_income/comments/1qdlo7r/how_i_built_an_8voice_portfolio_that_pays_me/

Projection-not-reception maketh perception! In other words, I don't see a world here before me. I make one up as I go along based on my assumptions, my biases, my corruption, my deception, all of which are based on my original dissociative boo-boo.

I would propose, do both. There is nothing better than spirituality. It simply means to see what is there - to train the mind how to do that. It's the highest meaning in life and what everyone will choose if they knew what it meant and what it grants. But yes, the world has charms too. We all wish for the creature comforts and the mod cons. It is not unspiritual to live life to the full. In fact it helps the spiritual path since we expose ourselves to all aspects of the world, the good the bad the ugly. The world is a laboratory to put our spirituality into action, namely to see things in the light of truth. So I say go hell for leather with both. You are young and you are smart and you already tasted the truth. So become say a self-help influencer and a mystic in the same lifetime. Why not!

The finite is going to disappoint. It ends. Clock is ticking. Soon have to say bye-bye. But I want more.

Everything is a test, a classroom to see whether I will be dragged into it. Or preferably not. Everyone wants their drama to be my drama. My presence can be fuel for the fire or a call to see through the lens of peace. Let me tell you right now that our worst enemy is doing the best he can to get though the day and just feed his kids. He isn't seeking to kill you in particular, just anyone who happens to stand in his way. If we don't oppose him, he can have a good day just like us. Let evil alone. Live and let live. I am not so perfect myself.

Sick or healthy hasn't anything to do with me. Let body do what a body does. It will die in a matter of time. I will be okay however. Find and stay with the changeless within.