regarding your original post, i tend to agree with wayfaerer a little bit, people may remember things that are different from the norm more easily. |
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I am very happy and I have no such relationship. I am working toward it but I'm not waiting until I find it to be happy. Relationships take constant work, anyways, so while it would be nice to trust someone completely I hardly consider that a finish line. I simply decided not to invest my happiness in any expectations. I realized I was absolutely perfect and loved and trusted myself. So I don't need a relationship to provide that for me. That is the best way I can answer your question. |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
regarding your original post, i tend to agree with wayfaerer a little bit, people may remember things that are different from the norm more easily. |
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"ya have to believe in something that's invisible but if its staring you in the face, nope can't see it. There's a scientific explanation for that, your thick." -The Doctor
Absolutely not, our true inner nature as spiritual beings is a state of pure bliss, a state of perfection. It is exceedingly hard for a human being to meticulously perform the intense inner work required to experience this state as a moment to moment experience and thus can seem to be idealistic to some people. However, I have subjectively confirmed for myself through meditation, and also objectively, by studying the lives of the great saints and holy men/women of mainly the Eastern religions that it is the case that it isn't idealistic but instead a goal that can be reached by those willing to work towards it. |
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Do you know why I am skeptical of the idea? Because the people who had mentioned it here hadn't reached it yet. If you did, I believe the words you typed would convey so much power that others will be convinced of it instantly. |
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What's a better way to learn whether the stove is hot, to tell a child that the stove is hot, or to have the child actually touch the red-hot glowing coils of the stove top? One way -- the stove might not *actually* be hot... and the other way, YUP, that stove sure as hell is hot! |
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But social programming does not simply protect us from hot stoves. So much of what we believe went through the washing machine of people repeating it even though they hadn't proved it for themselves. It's more like someone tells one person the stove is too hot to touch, so they tell another person the stove is so hot it'll burn you just by looking at it, so that person tells another that the stove is god and everyone needs to bow down and worship it. |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
I read a lot of books a couple of decades ago by authors operating from high levels of consciousness yet I wasn't convinced. It was only when my mind began to mature and I returned to those books that I began to understand what they were talking about. I am not saying that you are immature by the way but just pointing out that the written word cannot always convincingly convey the level of consciousness of another person. |
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Some lovely stuff from Omnis Dei and mcwillis on this thread. I know that fulfilment of material desire and ambition does not lead to happiness. However, for a long time I've also maintained the firm belief that long-term happiness does not exist and that life can be nothing more than a constant "rollercoaster" between positive and negative emotion. I believed a form of satisfaction could be obtained, but not full happiness as that would require some sort of negative experiences to stop it from dying out. |
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Eckhart Tolle talks about two forms of consciousness. Not meaning mental activity, but awareness (to be conscious of something). The first is object-oriented consciousness, the second is space-oriented consciousness. Object-oriented consciousness is based purely on objects and their relationships with each other. Everything you are aware of is compared with other things you are aware of. This sort of awareness gives objects the ultimate value because there's nothing else to ascribe any value to. Furthermore, all these objects have a value which is greater or less than other objects. |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
It's just the way the mind works. We remember negative things 3 times better than good things. So if I were to say to you that you look ugly, I would have to compensate that with 3 things to get back the neutral. Yes, you are very good at making pancakes, you're intelligent and your feet doesn't smell all that bad. You see, back to normal again |
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