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Sometimes, "The longest way around is the surest way home."

@Joseph Maynor Just like it says in Ecclesiastes, there is a time for everything too. I feel that there is a need for big picture thinking right now. When you go from being a self to being a whole your thinking naturally becomes very big picture, in an all encompassing love sort of way.

@Samantha I highly suggest this book! https://www.amazon.com/Power-Now-Guide-Spiritual-Enlightenment/dp/1577314808/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=the+power+of+now&qid=1558517411&s=gateway&sr=8-3

You have to become a sneaky little devil. What do you love to do? Do you love to be in nature? Do you love walking, running, hiking, yoga, art, music? Looking into a candle flame? Petting a dog? Anything you love that is putting you into a flow state or meditative state bypasses this trap. The other thing I've done is what I'll call jury-rigged Vipassana meditation. I think that you're supposed to be trained or taught to do it but I heard an explanation of it once a long time ago and it was a huge AHA moment. So the next time I meditated I just sort of went to this bliss state. It felt almost like I was literally raising consciousness in my head. Basically bring love into you meditation. Love is the connecting force your're going for. Thoughts get in the way of love sometimes, but they aren't really a big deal or so tempting to follow anymore if you're interrupting something so that feels so good.

@Beeman You are God, you are literally everything, then you can knowingly eat Jesus' flesh and drink his blood because the whole world is his body and blood and we are the Body of Christ, God. It's all encompassing. I just want to say that again, It's all encompassing. That's what God means, all encompassing, you're all encompassing.

I use the same method with connecting with literally anyone, even cashiers, neighbors and homeless people though. I see what they say and do secondarily, connection with them on a level of loving and knowing them as a reflection or expression of myself is the most important thing. Sometimes I forget and get wrapped in in the words but when I do they become a means to an end instead of another human being.

@hariseldon74 Our personalities and career choices change with time as we grow. I'm experiencing some growing pains with that as I adjust right now too.

@Angelite Fascinating, thank you!

The world needs people to design and build homes that are beautiful, have a soul, and are designed with Mother Earth in mind.

Stage blue's sense of community was a protecting force that we lost with Donald Trump. Would Evangelicals vote for a Republican even if he had little faith and almost no morality? Yep. I don't think Trump is focused enough to be that big of a threat, but the next one? The thing is that the people in the first category who are also very intelligent are suffering deeply, more than anyone else. They are the hardest people to love.

@Leo Gura You know what's scary as fuck? Highly intelligent right-wing people. I've met a handful and I don't know what to do with them. Love them? I just finished your last video. Wow.

From what I've seen blue is mainly right wing but there are lots of stage blue democrats too.

I'm very clingy.

@now is forever I love you.

the last one is banana.

Stalin was red. Neither left nor right, he was below the civilized ideals of both parties. Spiral dynamics isn't a good thing to mention to people unless they are ready to move to stage green or almost stage green already. It looks like a very biased tool to the stages below. The model makes little sense in your interactions with everyday people anyway. It's more of a distraction that separates us when you try to use it as a yardstick in relationships. It is still helpful when you are considering a community as a whole.

Sorry, Merica is the center of the universe.

I love Will Ferrell https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/muh/

Try pushing the limits of your circles if conversation seems shallow. Sometimes people just get in a funk of having boring conversations because they think that that's what everyone wants when really, everyone is dying inside for someone to say something outrageous.

I can't help it, but how I feel about a teacher has a big impact on me. The more absolute disgust I feel when I first discover them, the more they seem to help me, much later when I'm ready. Of course that's a great example of hate being love turned inward. I feel like a connection/energy from the person is more important than the message. Of course all teachers are just reflections of ourselves, the only difference between teachers and people we don't consider teachers is that we allow ourselves to accept the fact that we don't know what someone else does in order to allow them to teach us. We submit to them and give them a certain authority. But truly everyone we encounter knows something that we don't know.

Jesus was killed for claiming equality with God. It's 2019. We live in a world that is atheistic enough that it's safe to say that. If you have a dualistic view of God it will sound crazy or horrifying. That's what's cool about Leo, he isn't keeping his videos targeted towards some class of people that he perceives as lower than him. Or maybe he is and I'm it.

This is how I see Buddha.

We seem to have syncronicities of ocean metaphors, Captain Ahab. Yeah, I don't really get along with Buddha all the time, Jesus is my man. He was much more accepting of women. So Buddha gets to deal with own shity karma towards women in the form of me. Or I get to deal with it, wash it away with the blood of Christ or the ocean. Whatever.

@ajasatya @Preetom I don't completely disagree, yet... we do create our reality and no one is doomed. I like to focus on transcendence and forgiveness. Some people are deeply affected by small negative events in their lives and others are barely affected by severe trauma. Everything is a flow of energy and we get to choose what energies resonate with us and which to tap in to. My husband's parents live where a violent murder occurred. I can feel the energy sometimes but mostly there's the healing nature from the beautiful energy of nature that surrounds the place. How many people have been killed violently in the ocean? One of my classmates recently died in a lobster fishing accident, the trap line got wrapped around his foot and dragged him down. I think of him sometimes when I swim in the ocean. But the ocean is too massive, too cleansing to hold on to that kind of trauma. The little boy he left will feel and carry that loss, but I hope that someday he finds his father's love for him in the ocean, rather than looking at it as an assassin, a thief of happiness or what could have been. You too can be like the ocean.