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"When you are a giraffe and you receive criticisms from turtles, they are reporting the view from the level they are on."

Great question! It's mainly other people's judgements about me: Where I live Who I'm married to The type of family I'm in My life purpose (being a startup)

@Leo Gura This one means a lot. I watched it multiple times. Enlightenment is much more than just enlightenment experiences.

Go after your dreams with networking. I bet you can't do without networking. Recommended book: Guide to Investing by Robert Kiyosaki Your simple life puzzle diagram to help you figure out your dreams (also in the book): Another thing I noticed...if you take this diagram and move from stage orange to stage turquoise of Spiral Dynamics - looks awesome! Leo has a Spiral Dynamics clip. Best of Journey.

"Be selective with your battles. Sometimes peace is better than being right."

@Prabhaker They do this with cobra venom too. The person gets immune to it.

Whatever you do on earth it causes this: Time to do something positive.

This may help: I discovered that there are only one or two things to go for during my day. The rest falls into place easily. For example, if you're living with good family members, you could do your thing; they'll just give you space, and you could work on your life purpose or something important. Life purpose is a process you enjoy till it falls into place.

It could be health or life purpose or whatever...

Hey, those of you who said black shirt and being bald is the trend, you're totally right. Black shirt seem like the default trend that hasn't gone out of fashion. And, yes - "bald is beautiful." I'm sure if Ricky shaved his head here, he'll still look hot: Hey, here's another hotty in black singing an old song: More black shirts: So, all in all, simplicity such as wearing black shirts, being bald, and let me add being a little more fit does make a man look sexy. Inner qualities / peace count a lot more. It makes a guy look a lot more sexy.

@abgespaced Well, what I'm trying to say is, yes, I am in a relationship - I'm married with kids (teens). How I relate to my husband can't be explained through science other than we have 2 biological children.

If they are willing to listen, but most are not. Instead, if they want to know me better and what I'm about, I slowly / gradually tell them about Spiral Dynamics. I use that to go deeper. It's the safest way I could think of.

The same paradigm could attract the same paradigm. Sometimes this journey is a challenging one. A person could realize this later on when the situation / environment changes. Sometimes a radical change has to happen in order for a realization.

@abgespaced We're talking about relationships, not medicines or rockets or anything mechanical. This clip/song is more suitable for this thread: But, make your inner qualities / peace count more - a lot more!

@Prabhaker Thanks for the recommendations. This topic is deep/profound. I actually met someone who had witnesses to his outer body experience. He died in the hospital and saw all his family members. After he awoke, given a second chance, he told each of the family members what they were doing when he was dead. The family members were all shocked. Long story.

Wow, interesting post. This part is interesting too. I still wonder what happens afterwards. Now, I heard that there are stages - "8 stages of heaven and 8 stages of hell." And, of course, the no-self. And, I know we have souls. Yes, we might as well live life to the fullest. @Prabhaker Do you recommend any books on this? I think you're going to say Osho. But, you know, I think we just try our best and meditate. We all have different missions in life. Go within and found out. (I just wish everyone could go to heaven. I heard different things. One is, no-self is the best, and heaven is to enjoy. If you go to heaven, it's very hard to be no-self because the purpose of the angel is to enjoy. There are no egos there. The ego is non-existant, unlike earth - the ego is a fiction.)

What you said here reminds me of Leo's clip here: But, be careful in just watching this clip, although throughout this clip he mentions relationships. He also made a more recent PUA clip and now has a paradigm clip that includes travelling to different countries. (For me, I encourage immigration.) "The world is a great book of which they who never stir from home read only one page." -Augustine Btw, @Leo Gura, I really like how you said in the above clip, "moving to Japan and becoming a monk." And, another thing I noticed is that you use the icon of this clip as your general icon.

A sexy couple: Now, think about it. Leo likes to use Luke Skywalker in describing the "Hero's Journey / Life purpose."

Hmm..ok, the list of qualities that I came up with is from my experience of being married to my husband (17 yrs.) If he had a 6-pack, it'll be awesome (maybe), but that will only be an addition. If he was missing any of those qualities, it'll be a big no no.

Fear. It causes lots of other problems in life. "There's nothing to fear than fear itself." -Atticus, one of the main characters in To Kill a Mockingbird

Do you know your core values? Do you know her core values? Can you tell? Are you both non-quitters?

@Whywolf I love art too. Love in different languages for my students... Art quote:

Love painting. Love language

How God (aka no-self/nothingness / everythingness) loves: