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Love Someone - Lukas Graham

Slow Dancing in the Dark - Joji

Famous (Bam Bam) - Kanye West - DJ Drez Remix

Total Eclipse of the Heart - Cover by Sleeping at Last

Just because most don't care about it, it doesn't become mundane, right? The transformation in consciousness that makes this mundane into inexplicable, jaw-dropping, incomprehensible beauty is what constitutes realizing the supremacy of God. Let us take your hand, for example: Everyone has it, and it seems quite mundane - but if you begin to realize the beauty of it all, it will never be the same. The day we realize the extraordinary in what we perceive as ordinary, and knowing that all ordinary is extraordinary, there would be no confusion left. This is what I think - it has to do with the nature of usage, that gives rise to this sense of othering. Take a blanket for example - it is very easy to put into the bracket of othering. You 'use' it, and it has no existence outside of you, it seems like. 'You' get to decide when and where you use 'it'. We usually extrapolate the same with the nature of reality, as well. Hence, we are all gullible to that sense of elevation and hierarchy in everyday life. Everyone struggles with this, I believe. To totally shun this would take some hardcore meditation, and other practices that I am presently not aware of.

Hey @Moon This video sums it all. It is pretty balanced, and touches on the points that people have raised on this thread. The comments under the video are pretty sad, though. Also, found another video that further explains the 7th point - Sex can lead to infatuation - but it isn't in the context of casual sex per se - but about the roles of oxytocin and vasopressin generally during the act. Nonetheless, attaching this, just in case. Hope this answers your question.

In our conscious life, to what extent can we predict the future? Carl Jung has told that our dreams can predict the future. I would like to know your stance on this. Has anyone experienced something similar? Also, what are the other tools through which we could do the same, if something of this sort is possible, at all? . An excerpt from Man and his Symbols by Carl Jung for reference: "I myself dreamed of a motif over several years, in which I would ‘discover’ a part of my house that I did not know existed. Sometimes it was the quarters where my long-dead parents lived, in which my father, to my surprise, had a laboratory where he studied the comparative anatomy of fish and my mother ran a hotel for ghostly visitors. Usually this unfamiliar guest wing was an ancient historical building, long forgotten, yet my inherited property. It contained interesting antique furniture and toward the end of this series of dreams I discovered an old library whose books were unknown to me. Finally, in the last dream, I opened one of the books and found in it a profusion of the most marvelous symbolic pictures. When I awoke, my heart was palpitating with excitement. Some time before I had this particular last dream of the series, I had placed an order with an antiquarian bookseller for one of the classic compilations of medieval alchemists. I had found a quotation in literature that I thought might have some connection with early Byzantine alchemy, and I wished to check it. Several weeks after I had had the dream of the unknown book, a parcel arrived from the bookseller. Inside was a parchment volume dating from the 16th century. It was illustrated by fascinating symbolic pictures that instantly reminded me of those I had seen in my dream. As the rediscovery of the principles of alchemy came to be an important part of my work as a pioneer of psychology, the motif of my recurring dream can easily be understood. The house, of course, was a symbol of my personality and its conscious field of interests; and the unknown annex represented the anticipation of a new field of interest and research of which my conscious mind was at that time unaware. From that moment, 30 years ago, I never had the dream again.”

@levani You are already doing what you need to do - asking questions like these - "What are some important things to do in mid-20s?" While there is no linear path, and each person's journey is different, by asking such questions, you will stumble upon something that is valuable, which you may end up incorporating in your life. Ask this question to yourself, others, and observe - see if it fits well with you and makes you happy. If it does, great - that is what you should be doing; and do this throughout your life, at every stage. There is no ideal answer to this question.

@28 cm unbuffed Yeah, it is pretty good. It can be volatile, however - especially Elon Musk, with the controversies. Other than that, this is a gut feeling, and I am no professional, but the beauty industry seems to be doing very well, too. Edit: Just adding as things come to my mind: Streaming services - https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/5-top-streaming-stocks-to-buy-in-the-stock-market-today-for-long-term-gains-2020-11-09

@28 cm unbuffed In my opinion: Artificial Intelligence Healthcare E-commerce

This triggered something in me. . . . Oh God, am I that woman?

*coughs*

Just sayin’

Haha!

Hey @Flowerfaeiry I get what you’re saying, and there’s definitely some truth to it. These governments claim to ‘protect’ us from harmful things, while being the same entity that funds and aids these huge corporations that provide an unhealthy lifestyle. This system at a meta-level cares about no one, to be honest. We are just products to them. We do not have as much freedom as we think. We are enslaved by the government, through the means of comfort, and this comfort is extremely detrimental - and soon we fall back onto the same system for the panacea - which is again, ephemeral. They have made us lazy physically and mentally. It’s easy to govern a lazy mind. Have you achieved considerable success within this system? Good, you will be one of the firsts in the line, or else you’ll be left to die - this is the sad truth. There’s always a queue, and depending on how you use the system, you get the necessary position in it.

Is the core of human existence centered around its need to express itself, through the various emotions? Does human existence = human expression? Is it that we are a lonely species, with a strong need for survival, with expression as its only tool? If this were to stop, would they cease to exist, altogether? Are human emotions just a selfish tool for survival? Example: If most of the people in the world really do get truly enlightened, does that mean that the population would be bare minimum - because they have transcended the need to express themselves, through these human emotions?

@mmKay You should definitely check this out, if you found the robot-arm prosthetic fascinating. This is an 8 part YouTube Originals documentary. Also, it's hosted by Robert Downey Jr. - I am not saying that this is the only reason to watch it, but it definitely is one of my favorites, haha!

They say, if you seek God with all your heart, you can find him. What are fairies here?

Hey @JD8 I'm glad you asked this. I have been thinking about something similar lately - about human expression and its role in our existence. Why do we wish to feel understood? Why do we want the company of others? Why do we want to feel loved? I am not talking about the co-dependency kind of relationship, I am talking about - as you mentioned - the deeper truth to feeling like this. Then, it got me to this particular thought - we give these feelings meaning - these feelings give birth to creative expression, and we have found ways to cater to them; businesses, movies, songs, traditions, politics, and each and every aspect of human lives in this present day exists because these human feelings wanted it to. A super abstract example - if a tree fell somewhere, and no one saw it - did it actually count as falling? Likewise, if something nice/bad/amazing/scary happened to us somewhere, and there was no one to share it with, would it actually count as a 'happening'? Into the Wild is one of my favorite movies - and we can use the aforementioned analogy here, too. He sought wilderness and lived through the experience too, only to know that everything has its own place. There's this random order to everything. Humans are a specific sample size among the infinite others - with millions of years of evolution that we just can't escape. We never used to be social animals, but with the advent of agriculture and the growth of settlements, our behavior took this turn - and now we are just this. Were we always like this? No. Will we always remain like this? No. That's the beauty of this. We can choose to be a part of God's creative expression - through these emotions. It's more beautiful when you are conscious of this as an aspect to God's love. What McCandless does is he shuns humans to go find love in nature, only to come to the conclusion that it is all God. Nature is as loving and as ruthless as any other expression of the infinite. It just takes awareness on our part to find the beauty in it all. It's all love - having a family, exchange of physical, emotional, and mental space, living like McCandless in Alaska, or being this 200-year-old mummified monk in deep meditation. . https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/02/04/the-curious-tale-of-the-200-year-old-mummified-monk-reportedly-frozen-in-a-lotus-position/ .

“Of course it’s hard. It’s supposed to be hard. If it was easy, everyone would do it. Hard is what makes it great.” - Tom Hanks, A League of their Own @zeroISinfinity

DELON (Alain, of course) DAMON (Matt, of course) TOM (Cruise, of course) (Hanks, maybe?) (Hardy?)

Put your head on my shoulder - Paul Anka . Tonight my love, tonight - Paul Anka . Oh! Carol - Neil Sedaka

@Madhur

Oh, wow! This is so, so good.

Cut some, keep some. There will be many people who won’t be in alignment with your values, but not everyone is necessarily toxic. You’ll have to make that distinction. The foundational parameter for any friendship is openness and acceptance. I have ‘low conscious’ friends who do not completely understand where I am coming from, but there’s genuine interest from both the sides to know where each other is in their life. They listen and try to participate, and I do reciprocate with things concerning them, albeit the issues they discuss aren’t up my alley, usually. I have other friends that I have cut-off from my life. They have been toxic. No space for people who put you down, make your life miserable, and put you on the train of self-loathing. It’s not so much about the knowledge that they have, and the plethora of things that you they can discuss, but about who they are intrinsically as an individual. I know people too grounded in this material world, but are secure individuals - and they’ll make good friends, nonetheless - because their idea of friendship isn’t fickle to begin with. Make that distinction. Remember, people who are not on the same platform as you in terms of consciousness and people who are toxic by their very nature are very different. @Fran11