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Gratefulness is a part of our natural state. It's just as important to become aware of the things you are ungrateful for, because those are the things that need light to be shone upon, to cast away the untruthfulness.

The very act of thinking is just a form of judgment. Whether you think a person is kind, loving, beautiful, ugly, nice, not so nice. It's impossible to not judge someone(and something) while using language/symbols. By trying to stop judging the only thing you will accomplish is judging your own judgment - and thus will get you nowhere. The only thing you can do is to try to expand awareness. You judge because you see and feel too much separation in reality, you are too invested in the illusion. A good, simple yet practical approach is too start practicing love and compassion more. Both toward yourself and others. When you can sense that you and other are on a level playing field the judgment automatically stops(at least lessens). Your thoughts are only a reflection of how you see the world, you can not change your thoughts, only how you perceive the world. When you become more aware of love - both inside and outside - then the judgmental thoughts will stop. You say you judge people as fat. You probably mean that in a negative connotation. Fat people are lazy, ugly, sick, unattractive, stupid etc. The reason this judgment happens is because the ego is always trying to give order to things. The ego always tries to size up people in relation to itself. You judge people as fat so you can feel that you are higher in the human hierarchy than the fat person. When the ego judges the situation as being higher in hierarchy the ego feels safe. In turn, when your ego judges people as being higher that its own it feel threatened. Your only job is to see that this whole higher/lower hierarchy of people is a sham, an illusion. When you can do that your relationship with people will change for the better.

Why are you going to uni if it doesn't inspire or motivate you?

You have a choice. Stay in the dark tunnel and catch a few glimpses of light now and then - or keep going through the dark tunnel until you reach the light. Either choice is fine but be honest with yourself

You are saying that one will become enlightened upon his death. But then who is this one who has become enlightened? Also when you are enlightened you don't "enter" maya again. There is no escaping or entering maya, it is a part of everything. It's not this separate illusion or something. Being enlightened is just being aware of this "illusion". I would not call enlightenment a state, I think you got the wrong idea there. Don't fall into the trap into thinking that this illusion is bad, nothing is bad. Everything is exactly as it should be. Killing someone to make him enlightened defeats the purpose of this universe, the purpose of experience and expression. Everything we label as good and bad is a part of the total experience

Awareness has not settled 'falsely' into our bodies, nothing is false. A long time ago everything our bodies are made of was 'dead' matter, rocks. Then the rocks came alive as single cell organisms. Why did the rocks come alive? Because the whole universe is oriented towards coming back to pure consciousness, the creator. Our human bodies are a transitionary phase between the rocks and god, gods living in a 'rocky' body. At this moment our collective consciousness still believes we are dead flesh - or matter or rocks. But slowly people are realizing that our 'matter'-ness is only one part of our reality. The more time elapses, the more we will come to the realization we are god - it is inevitable. A coffee table is just as much God, or awareness, as you and me are. The table moves at a different vibration which is needed for God to express himself. A big wave in the ocean is not big if there are not any smaller waves to compare itself with, there is an infinite amount of variations of these vibrations. But at the end of the day, both the big and the small waves are still the same ocean. And that is where this universe probably is going, the stilling of the ocean.

Imo, awkwardness happens when people are not themselves in social situation. They feel the need to put on a mask, then when the silence happens they are scared the real person underneath the mask will get exposed. You are too outcome dependent in social situations. You need to relax and breath. There is no winning or losing in social situations, especially not with strangers. Learn to stay present, no need to hype yourself up for others.

When you are alone, hug yourself(really, try it) and tell yourself you are perfect. Both your strength and weaknesses, your accomplishments and failures. Everything is alright. First love yourself, then share your love with the world and you will find happiness.

Sometimes when anger arises in me it's important for me recognize it--and not get lost in the emotion. When I recognize it(and see) the anger the intensity of the emotion immediately lowers in intensity. In my opinion, everything that angers you is something you attracted via your subconscious. After the angering situation is over, try to analyze what YOU did wrong--what is floating around in your subconscious that is making you angry? When you address that root cause the angering situation will be less likely to manifest itself again. You do have to go to the root cause of your anger, and that is not easy for everyone to recognize in themselves. It's also not fun for your ego to admit that you had a part in the wrongness of the situation. But if you want to grow in life it has to be done.

Hahaha.. No. Most people can find themselves in this description, people have a natural inclination to form a fitting narrative about themselves if they read a positive description which might make them feel special. It's a marketing trick designed to make the subject feel as if the message is specifically for him. I'm sure there is some psychological term for it.

True mystics don't care about money

Don't let your skepticism of society lead you down a path of hatred, that might lead you down a path of terrorism - or worse, politics. Rather choose a path of love, and never compromise your love. Stay critical, especially of your own assumptions. -Is capitalism really 'evil'? -If capitalism is evil why do people don't act against it? -What does it mean to be 'free'? -Why do want a "self-actualized" world? And didn't communists basically promised the same thing?

I'd argue that work pays off, but not hard work. But it's ultimately a matter of how one defines and experiences hard work. If you mean hard work in the sense that you are constantly killing yourself and feel you are always pushing yourself against the stream, you will undoubtedly lose the battle in the long run. If you mean hard work in the sense that you know what you want - and you take the necessary action - while staying congruent and composed internally, then hard work definitely pays off. This does not mean that you never have to make any sacrifices, it just means that you always honor yourself.

Luckily I have never had the experience of being fired but I can imagine it doesn't feel good. Everything happens for a reason, maybe there is a lesson to be learned from it. Like you said, stay positive and remember: There is enough abundance in the universe for every single one of us to get what we truly desire.

I kindly disagree sir. You can be enlightened and still have 'false' and 'limiting' beliefs. These beliefs can still reside in the brain in an enlightened person. Only when they 'pop' up they can be quickly changed through awareness if these beliefs don't resonate with source consciousness.

Enlightenment is not about being aware of everything that is happening, enlightenment is the realization you ARE everything. There's no more need to worry about anything, whatever you do or don't do, it's fine. This thirst for getting ahead in life will melt like snow under a bright sun. That doesn't mean you can't do anything anymore, there's just no more need for anxiety and worry. You can't be enlightened in one area, you are either enlightened or you're not. If you feel there's stuff that need to be 'fixed' you are not enlightened.

If you don't desire anything, why worry about it? Obviously you desire something or else you wouldn't be asking questions about it

Notice all the "I"'s in your story. Your friends aren't holding you back, in fact no one is even capable of holding you back except for yourself. If you feel your friends are the ones holding you back you aren't going anywhere anyway.

Well, you can't convince people their gossiping is not really benefitting them in the grand scheme of thing. People have to find out for themselves. When I encounter people like this I just show with my body language that gossip doesn't interest me in the slightest, most of the time they pick up on it and they(or me) change the subject. No harm done. If they don't pick up on it they are not people I want to interact with anyway.

What really helped me to not give a shit what people think and to get really self-confident was to learn to get grounded. I was always flying way high in the air and didn't even notice my legs connection to the world. Check out some yoga and meditation exercises for grounding, they might really help you out.

Most adults I see are barely at level 4

That book is a monster. I couldn't get through it. The writing style is not really a page turner for me. I'm reading Lolita by Nabokov. I never read it and I love the Kubrick movie so why not

You have to first realize you can not "conquer" anyone. You do what you do and they do what they do, that's the way it's supposed to work. The only way you can sabotage this - and thus sabotaging yourself - is by sacrificing yourself to comply to the other. Try to see these people not as "powerful" or intimidating. That thought alone will throw you off balance. They are people who are trying the best they can by what they have learned in THEIR life. Their life has learned them that people will comply the easiest if they use their power and intimidate people. That's not their fault. Only when they see that their intimidation tactics won't work anymore will they 'learn' that it's not congruent with source. When you stay true to yourself and these people still try to intimidate you they will be the ones who will feel bad about themselves, not you. And when they get to the point where they are encountering this a lot they will realize they are the one's who will have to change.

Try to realize you can only do one thing at a time. You can worry about a million things at one time, but you can only DO one of them. When you worry about time you are wasting energy time on worrying where you could be doing. You have to be clear internally about what you want to achieve and then relax. Do the things you have to do, peacefully. See if things like meditation and yoga resonate with you, it has helped a lot of people finding this inner peace. When you do find that peace you will find that you can navigate way more joyfully and peacefully.

The affirmations won't work if you keep stressing and checking if they are working yet. True inner progress always needs a degree of faith. The thing inside of you that keeps checking if it's working is the thing that needs to be evolved. Your affirmations are probably more in line with a higher part of yourself, doing these affirmations are a tool for you to reach that higher self. But it's only one possible tool, it's not the affirmations themselves that will bring you to a higher plane of your experience. Your affirmations radiate abundance, by trying to define or check up on abundance you are bringing scarcity inside your experience and thus restricting the flow of the abundance.