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@zoey101 That's too cute! When my kids were young my wife would put their favorite music on for clean up time. She made the work a fun time. Her and my daughter would sing to 'The Little Mermaid' for instance while they worked. Fond memories for all! Lots of fun times cooking together too! My daughter is just like her mother today. No kids of her own yet but she has a classroom full of 1st graders. Wanna hear something kinda funny I just remembered. I'm laughing! My wife was pumping breast milk with one of the battery operated pumps. It didn't work very well at all. And she tried a few others too. None of them worked efficiently. So I got creative. I retrofitted it with a commercial vacuum pump I bought at a flea market. I put a control valve on it so she could adjust the suction to her liking. It worked great! She used it for both children. She worked in the evenings so we had to do something so I could feed the baby while she was gone. Necessity is the mother of invention!

@zoey101 That's the big one to overcome. It's huge! Unfathomable to the limitations of the mind. Man were off topic here. Back on topic now. Can anybody here truly create something new right now? Put your money where your mouth is. Let's hear it. Describe it in some detail. Anything?

@How to be wise From my pov true creativity seems to come from a sort of divine inspiration, for lack of a better term. Some ppl seem to be naturally more attuned to it than others. How to cultivate it? Maybe study those people like Tesla or Einstein, ect. that seem to possess that "gift". The other day I was thinking about creativity as I was listening to a lecture on quantum computers. The theory is that they retrieve information by tapping into existing parallel universes. My thought at the time wsa "is that what truly creative people are doing?". They do seem to have an ability to tap into something 'other'. What that "something" is I'm not really sure. But it is there. That I'm sure of. For what I have experienced of creativity, either it comes as a sudden inspiration as if out of nowhere. Or, as the old saying goes "Necessity is the mother of invention". If I focus on something by giving it my full attention, I can usually be fairly creative. I have always been good a visualization. When I see something in my mind's eye it is usually 3 dimensional, maybe more. So I can literally build things in the mind first than draw it on a piece of paper. Than I build it in reality. Here's a thought too. Maybe what seems like divine inspiration could simply be tapping into the subconscious mind. Or maybe the subconscious mind is our gateway to parallel universes? A biological quantum computer, so to speak.

@John Lula I'm quite sure it is. Infinite interpretations/expressions of God. The beautiful infinite diversity of God.

@LiakosN Nisargadatta refers to it as the Para-brahaman, the absolute. Beyond all conscious experiance. Conscious beings as conscious experiance are literally the eyes/witness for what God has no awareness of. I think of it this way. Does a flower have conscious awareness? Not really. But yet it is very much a part of existence. Same as with God. All of existence - god/us-everything, exists only in the eye of the beholder/consciousness- Brahman. "The parabrahman or absolute has no awareness of itself. Consciousness happens as if on a screen on the absolute" Nisargadatta Notice the word "on" the absolute and not "of" or "in". That would suggest that consciousness is one step under God.

@MM1988 Are you familiar with Quantum Computing? This is going to change everything in a big way! Even the way we think about reality. *You can skip over the introduction and get to the actual lecture if you'd like.

@Key Elements That wouldn't be the Leo I know. With all respect "Candy coating" you mean?

These spiritual pissing contests need to stop. Almost every Hot topic recently is a non-duality war.

@Mikael89 All right. We'll leave it at that. Time for this Mr. Eternity to chop wood-mow lawn.

@Mikael89 Good. Than I've got a question for you. What is the sound of one clap handing?

@Mikael89 From your answer and post count I assume your not a "beginner/newbie"?

@Mikael89 This is precisely what needs to be contemplated. But I can give you a small hint. Don't look for location.

@MarkusSweden Reading this entire post sounded somewhat familiar but I couldn't place it till just now.

@UniversalHuman Here is something worth contemplating. Out there where the theory of the very large and the very small connect, where our 13 billion year old expanding universe touches the void, you come upon the mystery of God.

@Leo Gura Yesterday I was contemplating and suddenly all walls around me collapsed into infinity. I may have opened a new door. Does this sound familiar to you?

@zoey101 He's friggin Buddha!

@zoey101 That's the key. When it appears you enjoy it knowing with total clarity that nothing lasts forever.

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@Applejuice Suffering loss.

I'm waiting for someone to say "can we lick em'? That would make me a lot happier! "

Tell me this doesn't make you happy. Come on, don't lie. Maybe just for a second you smiled? hehe

You know- after contemplating happiness deeper just the fact that we are all here to experiance this amazing thing we call life/reality is quite a miracle in itself.

@Applejuice The key to happiness is unconditional love and acceptance for what is.

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