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There is a hero, if you look inside your heart, you don't have to be afraid of what you are. There is an answer if you reach into your soul. The sorrow that you know melts away, and a hero comes along. With the strength to carry on, you cast your fears aside, and you know you can survive. So when you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong! You'll finally see the truth, that a hero lies in you! It's a long road, and you face the world alone. No one reaches out a hand, for you to hold. You can find love if you search within yourself, and the emptiness you felt will disappear. The hero comes along as the strength to carry on, as you cast your fears aside, and you know you can survive. So when you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong. You’ll finally see the truth - that the hero lies in you! Lord Knows Dreams are hard to follow, but don't let anyone tear them away. Hold on! There will be tomorrow! In time, you find the way!

Smile and the world smile with you, cry and you cry alone. Once I lived the life of a millionaire, spent all my money, didn't have any care. Took all my friends out for a mighty good time, bought bootleg liquor, champagne and wine. Then I began to fall so low, lost all my good friends, had nowhere to go. If I get my hands on a dollar again, I'll hang on to it 'til that old eagle grins. Be cause Nobody knows you,when you're down and out. In your pocket, not one penny, and as for friends... you won’t have many. When you get back on your feet again, Everybody wants to be your long-lost friend. I said it’s strange without any doubt - nobody knows you when you're down and out. Oh, nobody knows you when you're down and out. In your pocket, not one penny, and as for friends, you won’t have many. When you get back on your feet again, Everybody wants to be your long-lost friend. I set it straight without any doubt, Nobody knows you... Nobody knows you - Nobody knows you! When you are, ‘down and out’.

Start with downloading the knowledge from a movie. Lots of resources for that, just need some empty hard drive space. Just don’t download the movie, only the knowledge from it.

@OBEler She is traumatized. She is not the one who is traumatized. It does not belong to her. It never did. Therein lies the liberation. The belief well being is found without, rather than the nature of within, can run deep. An experience of giving our power away, interpreted, a story which is not true, and a feeling misunderstood, which keeps repeating. It doesn’t fit, cause it’s not who she really is. Misunderstanding, misinterpretation, misidentification can be very convincing. Experience can be most confusing, and convincing. She could be more realistic in the contemporary sense with the statistical odds. If she is seen by a thousand doctors there is a good chance she will come across one who actually sees her, and that one will know who she is not, and she will begin to liberate in that knowing as well. If you happen to share this sentiment with her, be careful not to put too much stock in me either. I’m no doctor.

@AlwaysJoggin Wow. Ya. When you put it that way it’s as if there’s something within that already makes sense of it all. Doesn’t seem so random or fearsome anymore, like we’re already home either way. Seems funny now! Thanks for that. ??

Bad judgment call and what a horrible situation to endure, glad he recovered. It really highlights the opportunity for worldwide education around psychedelics. Hats off to the writer for getting that zinger in there at the end of the article in the true spirit of the topic.

I had a buddy who had that same idea, and he started an actual Happiness club. Tons of people joined rather quickly, but as they were all looking for happiness, unfortunately he could not let any of them in.

God wouldn’t even know what you’re talking about.

@Javfly33 ??

Not at all man, I like where your head’s at. I would say yes in the sense silence is that from which realization arises...in the absence of thinking, or, thought activity. Enjoy. ☺️

?? As a testament to just how sneaky thought is...to the extent there is non-physical & physical, thought falls on the physical side. More so though, thought is so sneaky it seems to claim there is a physical, and that the body is physical & thought is not, while the only reality of thought & physical is Mind, which is unreal. ? It is this very misunderstanding of the true nature and reality which leads to anger, anxiety, and restlessness. Be most mindful to self love, and not to ‘beat up on yourself’ at all...EVER...but again on the sneakery front...thoughts arise such as “anger”, “anxiety” and “restlessness”...and while these are useful, appropriate, necessary, to communicate what’s going on with you...each of those thoughts is the finite mind hijacking the actual sensation. That is, anger, anxiety, and restlessness are not sensation. They point to the experience of raw sensation, or, that-there-is sensation....mixed, or combined with the thoughts “anger”, “anxiety”, “restlessness”. When these thoughts are believed to be that which they seem to label, the experience keeps repeating. When it is recognized these labels are only the thoughts, and not sensation, you are on your way to letting those experiences go, for the duration of this lifetime. In no longer believing the thoughts, the body is no longer hijacked, and releases. If you hold luck in one hand and let a thought go with the other, at least you have one hand free to do something you want to.

@BartekD Appreciating you as well. Now you might briefly not like me, but...you can also zoom out and consider a bigger picture. That it is not about anything the mind will offer. Anything. This could be an insight to just how infinitely sneaky the mind is, and an insight into relativity and thought, in that there is no end to it. Every thought can be put in a category of “thought”, and let go. This helps to notice when one is believing a thought, by taking a stand with respect to All thought just being, thought, and never more. This brings to mind the old phrase “empty your cup”. “Cup” is a thought, and is not that which it points to as a label. Empty your mind of the attachment to thoughts like “cup” by recognizing thoughts as labels, not actually what anything is, and reality begins to be seen as it is, so to speak. Godspeed! ??

The most impactful response would be to completely let it go because it’s a thought. The next best response I can offer is to scrutinize the direct experience these words describe. This might be with questions like... “What was it like when I experienced a ‘we know’ ?” This seems highly semantically picky, even tedious, but only at first. It might lead to falling in love with inspection. Never know until directly experienced. Likewise, if it is said that Truth exists, what is the direct experience of Truth existing? It can be most efficient to write these answers that arise on paper. The mind does not function with seeing and reading the same as it does with thoughts, especially in regard to inspecting, thoughts. You can also probe with “what does it mean for something to exist”? And you can help clarify that inquiry (and thus the response that arises within you) with the contemplation of it’s opposite, “what does it mean for something to not exist”? Then you can question the causation implied with “so”. “What is cause, what is effect”? “What would be the first cause”? What could be the last effect”? “How, in the most literal sense, is a cause different, separate of, an effect”. ”One Truth”... Lots of ways to approach that thought. Again, the ideal is recognizing it as only a thought and letting it go as effortlessly as it came. COuld also question what the direct experience of this one Truth is, which is referred to, uncovering the distinction between a reference to direct experience and a reference to a belief.

@BartekD Just a perspective to consider. The energy is actually what you ultimately want. The mind assigns context to it which can be convincing, and before you know it you’re ‘solving a problem’ which was not ever a problem. Feeling inside the body, move energy in waves, from the ground or bottoms of your feet, slowly up all the way, out of the top of the head. Do this over and over. To start, feel that there is sensation in the bottoms of your feet, and feel that sensation in the ankles, calves, knees, and so on all the way up, and out. If you experience intention emotions, fully relax the entire body in the same manor, each muscle area, feet up through body to head and out. Do breath counts. Count to 4 (seconds) of inhale, and then exhale twice as slow, counting to 8. Pay special attention to the entire stomach & waistline fully relaxing and remaining relaxed through the entire ‘practice‘ breath work session. At first, you will probably notice it tensing in a habitual automatic way. That noticing is progress. No ‘beating up on yourself’ (ever!). Noticing this is step one, relaxing this is step two. You are are essentially retraining the body how to breath, and emptying out the effects it has accumulated from previously unnoticed subtle tensions. The more you enjoy the practice of this experience, the more the inner body awareness connection is felt. Inevitably, a ‘flip’ happens, and this presence & feeling of awareness becomes the new default, without any practice or inner attention needed.

That there is always a place for calm nonviolent civil discourse, and that place be earth.

That is actually not true on both accounts.

@StateOfMind One easy way to ‘pull the rug out from under’ one’s own attachments is to acknowledge anything attributed to the ego. Then physically point to the ego it is being attributed to.

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I’d begin a deep dive (online) into the distinction(s) between pain & suffering. I wouldn’t lump them together whatsoever.

Life is short. The best of both worlds (No thing ‘&’ every thing) is where it’s at, imo. Take advantage of every resource available, on every avenue of life ‘&’ spirituality. Be careful of pigeonholing any resource, and also of putting any one or any thing on a pedestal. The resource one is reluctant or refuses to experience stands to be (of course) the most beneficial. Also be mindful not to label, as there is only grey and the whole of experience (and thus everything within it) is an ongoing ‘teacher’ / ‘lesson’. One day Leo schools me, and insights arise. The next day it’s my nine year old kid. The next day a neighbor. The next day an ant hill. Stay curious (as if there were another possibility )

I recommend it.

Happiness can not be or become, nor not be happiness. This is not a “problem” for Happiness.

Ya, sorry about that. Electronic stuff seems to be getting less reliable lately. An ‘entry point’ would be to write on paper (not a screen, not ‘in your head’) in front of you... What are the differences between water & the Holy Ghost? Whatever comes to mind in this regard is ‘right’, whatever comes up, write than down. Don’t judge, scrutinize, make mental comparisons , or second guess, just flow. Essentially, this is not ‘thinking about it’, this is seeing in front of you whatever arose in mind. To the extent possible, look at this like turning the mind off, and a hand just writing of it’s own spontaneous accord. Then, in the same manor write down what properties are the same with water & the Holy Ghost? Which lends to some google searches in regard to the miraculous properties that are unique to water. As an example, water unbinds other substances without binding itself to those substances. It rinses away without attaching to that which is rinsed away. Do just go on that though. Experience your googling of it. One note, and this can not be said to be more than opinion / interpretation, because words / communication... nonetheless....sin IS NOT ego. Sin is to speak ill against the self / Self. Also, you can directly experience the ‘laying on of the hands’ for yourself. People refer to it as Reiki. Given your path / background / trips / experiences, I am highly confident you would have “sober” mystical experiences that are even more “real” in the sense they are deeply moving, life changing, eye opening as to what is possible being renewed or made anew yet again, than previous experiences. That is what Jesus & Paul spoke of. Siddhis, Infinite mind in communion with ‘finite mind’. There is only actually the ‘speaking in tongues’, but we normalize it such that it seems significant relative to reality, specifically the human body, was not already free / spontaneously ‘happening’.

@Raze All sounds right on imo. Aka fragmentation.

It could be taken as a pointing to the limitation of duality, or if you like, the finite (this or that) mind. Existence, nonexistence, inner space, outer space, dimensions, dimensionless. Perhaps a pointing that “it” can’t be thought. Paradoxically, “it” is all there is to “thought”. Awareness is a more unique pointing, as it lends itself to direct experience, or rather that one has no reference point in their own direct experience of no-awareness. Great user name btw.