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Money must be seen as important, and equally of no importance. Your own money psychology is paramount, and attachment (over focusing on thoughts about money) is counter intuitively nonproductive. Abraham Hicks (YouTube) is the best resource I’ve found for spiritual money psychology. If you find yourself thinking about money in any troublesome way...switch to imagining yourself with oodlles of it, feel all the things you’ll do, have, enjoy & experience. It is the feeling, spirit, which is the source of all the ideas, inspiration, energy, and the money “itself”. This comment might serve as a more literal example, in that I am a man, and am not at all a man (so I’m commenting, by not commenting). Denial of either aspect would still be exclusion, denial. Did I disrespect your excluding of males...or bring inclusion to your party? Notice, it’s alwaysup to you. And so it is with money as well.

@ivankiss So Well said. ? Truth always ‘sets you free’. Absolutely reliable.

When dreaming I'm guided to another world Time and time again At sunrise I fight to stay asleep 'Cause I don't want to leave the comfort of this place 'Cause there's a hunger, a longing to escape From the life I live when I'm awake So let's go there Let's make our escape Come on, let's go there Let's ask can we stay? Can you take me higher? To the place where blind men see Can you take me higher? To the place with golden streets Although I would like our world to change It helps me to appreciate Those nights and those dreams But, my friend, I'd sacrifice all those nights If I could make the Earth and my dreams the same The only difference is To let love replace all our hate Up high I feel like I'm alive for the very first time. Set up high I'm strong enough to take these dreams and make them mine. So high I'm strong enough to take these dreams and make them mine. Can you take me higher? Let’s ask, can we stay.

”With everybody looking at you funny...you got to hold on”.

There is one of you, in the most obvious sense, you’ve never experienced “being two you’s”. The words don’t even resonate or make sense. Insights are thinking based appearances with a little feeling experience. Breadcrumbs of the path. Notions there must be more to this. You could experience zero, a hundred, or millions of insights. They’re specific to topics, and are the relinquishing of an overlay, filter, or essentially, of a most innocent and unavoidable self misunderstanding. Insights come & go, appear and disappears. They’re delightful, delicious, yet are only appearing & disappearing in direct experience. To draw out the difference in regard to intuition, notice you don’t actually experience intuitions, as in plural. Intuition is ‘far less’ appearance, or, is directly of The One. This may or may not ‘land’... Imagine me and you are sitting in college and I ask you “how’d you get into this place?”. Your answer might be “paid tuition”. So you might consider being in the college, is being in tuition. Tuition being your ticket into the college...and now you’re in it. If you are infinite...and find yourself in an apparent finite world...and wonder “How did I even get in here”...you can follow the trail so to speak, the trail of breadcrumbs of the tuition you paid - the knowing of your own infinitude! ...which is THIS! And is now, in experience, referred to as “intuition”.

@Intraplanetary ?? I like the phrase, “the other side of that wall is a thought”. (In regard to whatever wall is ‘in front of you’) Seeing through this thought has the power to bring a new consideration to mind. When it is recognized ‘the other side of that wall’ is a thought, and not actually the perception of an other side of the wall...it can ‘click’ that I am infinite being appearing as that “wall”. Thus, what I fear, that which could be said to be uncertain, or that which is “the other side of that wall” appearing as that wall - is actually me. “The wall” is actually made of what is absolutely, unequivocally, indisputably, undeniably, certain. Just like, exactly like - you are most certainly you (just forgot your infinitude). It is also relieving and enlightening to scrutinize, to actually try to find, an actual separation between the wall, the seeing, and the knowing of the seeing.

@Intraplanetary See if you can allow this to be the most profound wisdom. ever. The context I’m offering it in can be ‘triggering’. If so, notice the correlation between the thought & resistance / tensing ‘ contracting in the body. It might be more surface level, light a tightening of the neck, hands or waistline. It might be more deeply repeated, and felt as subtle emotional distress or turmoil. Then utilize that knowing of the relationship between certain thoughts and the tensing of specific area(s), parts, muscles, or even organs etc of the body. You can ‘work it’ backwards. By being aware, mindfully relaxing that body area, the mind also relaxes and let’s go of the repetition of the body-tensing-thought. This utilizes triggering rather than suffering from it, allowing the healing of Well Being into this area of the body mind. Likely, some deeper emotional misunderstandings are released form the body.? If this doesn’t make sense or isn’t clear enough please let me know, thanks! ☺️

It’s not possible since you are yourself. It’s a matter of thought attachment, and you can notice the specific theme which ‘feeds’ this is claiming things as yours. Awareness and non-reaction of these thoughts is the unwinding & surrendering of these thoughts. What remains is simply just Goodness, without qualifications, validations, or any details really. You can make self-love oriented Meditations your ‘go to’ (rather than thinking) which is most efficient.

@Muhammad Jawad Iknowright! So Good! ♥️?☺️ @zeroISinfinity ...what for it....wait for it...

‘You’ must go prior to understanding as it is still appearance. That is a pointer, and of course not something that can be understood. Only the experience will do, and even ‘experience’ only points to what is prior to experiencing. Notice, when you say ‘they don’t exist’, you are still acknowledging a ‘they’ but just disregarding this with the thought ‘non-existence’ (which there is not). This is subtle thought attachment. What each one is ‘trying to overcome’ is not collective and is in actuality what each is one is trying to let go of from one’s relative experience / appearance / life / past (which is actually made of the ‘substance’ of one’s self). Consider perception is not ‘yours’. (That’s a thought about perception...which is best ‘experienced’ without filters.) Meditation, yoga, retreats, trips, loving everyone & everything, etc. Experience, rather than thinking.

@Muhammad Jawad ☺️♥️ Thank “God”.

@Muhammad Jawad Hey. Welcome home.

Sounds like the awakening was a bit contextualized. What awakens is unconditional, and life being a burden is a somewhat heavy condition. Life or personhood being an it (an object or ‘other thing’) & being free from said ‘it’ is also still a condition, or, the belief you are not already absolutely free, or said another way, there are not-two (you & life, or you & personhood). You are so free you might say, that this, ‘life’ or ‘personhood’ Is, or, is the very evidence, Is the being that you are. Inspect each thought in a more nuanced approach, rather than adding an over arching theme or concept. The orientation of this suggestion would experientially be inward... inspecting each thought rather than thinking about what’s happening...that being outward. ‘At the end of the day’, the ‘answer’ is there is much to let go of, and nothing to figure out or understand. When letting go / emptying out, purification is experienced, and directing awareness to seeing, hearing, deeply relaxing the body, and breathing is the way to go. Though it is no picnic at first, you’ll become more and more aware of how deep reaction to thought is, by non-reaction (relaxing, breathing, seeing, hearing instead). It’s sort of like having a front row seat to the shit show of your own delusions, and the key is recognizing it’s an emptying out, and it’s an experience, it is not about a separate you. A movie of a spilling of thoughts that aren’t actually about you, might be another way to point. Daily Concentration meditation can be highly effective in regard to the experience of purification, and not getting ‘sucked into’ the thought narratives. Followed by Self Inquiry to redirect inward. Expression is important, and I recommend creating a Dreamboard to express anything you want to do and experience, and to get in touch with presence, or, creator-creation-creating. Also, as was mentioned previously in the thread...talk to someone. The more you express and empty, the sooner there is more clarity & focus in your experience.

Absolutely. You don’t have to worry at all, about anything. Letting go is an art & a process. Sounds like a great experience! The experiences and insights are delightful of their own accord, and don’t per se need to mean or predict anything. That tends to veil the presence sought in the first place. Memories are great experiences too! That there truly isn’t anything you have to worry about is similar to that there is no need for certainty (something to rely on). Plurality. There is no limit to appearances (insights)...but just one intuition.

@gggkkk Very nice. Love the solo retreats, couldn’t agree more.

Awareness is aware of the thoughts “I think yes”, “I lost this”, “I had it”. The thoughts appear & disappear, just like clouds. Awareness never appears and never disappears, just like the sky. Truly, awareness is aware, of awareness. Clouds & thoughts are made of awareness. Are awareness. There is no such thing, as awareness.

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A different perspective to consider...in case it resonates... I find absolute security in a social environment... ...because I recognize I’m feeling the resonance of my own thoughts, and others are feeling the resonance of their own thoughts. This is direct experience. Paranoia disregards direct experience, believing one is feeling based on the thoughts of another...but one does not know the thoughts of another in one’s direct experience. Even when another verbally expresses their thoughts...one still does not know another’s thoughts...only one’s own. Next time you experience the anxiety, breathe in a four count...and breathe out an eight count (twice as slow as the in breath). Allow your entire body to relax, and gently tune in to seeing, hearing, and feeling...while repeating the four / eight breathing. I believe if you practice this each morning for a few minutes, the tide of momentum will shift such that you forget what the paranoia experience was even like.

Because everything is a thought.

@Loving Radiance Well I don’t want to. This little exchange feels healthy in it’s not-needing.

Do you need me to, or want me to?

@Javfly33 You’re neat AF. ☀️

If you believe you need any thing, or any one, the experience of everything is reduced to a means of easing the discord of that belief. This belief in need can not be found in perception, nor in feeling. It is only found in self referential thinking, in the veil of ‘what I tell myself’. You are yourself. A thought is just a thought. Take your rightful stand as such, feel the eternally replenishing affirmation of your being. You are already whole, complete, and as pure as could ever be...free to experience and enjoy everything.

The imperfection of two is always the divine perfection of One. When I am seeing how he / she needs to change, I’ve already veiled myself of the only relationship that could be said to matter. In the communion of love, in relationship with source, no one, no thing need change at all, and magically the mud is the divinity, and every imperfection says “here, here is the perfection of you!”

@Muhammad Jawad Let go of the expectation of results. It’s a highly counter intuitive, much deeper letting go. Do it only for the experience.