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Spiritual Nature of Distress
Many people consider the joy they find in the path, but if in distress they believe themselves to be off of the path. In fact our spiritual life moves in peace or in distress, in joy or in the “dark night of the soul.” Distress is in fact an opportunity. When we are distressed there…
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Feeling Pain
Why can’t people accept that they can’t control their life or others? They misidentify themselves so they don‘t know who they are. They think there is a “them” that needs to struggle. For example, accepting a suicide is hard, and there is no such thing as merely accepting. Life exists in a pattern of tensions…
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Love Beyond Limits
There is a love beyond human limits. It is the peace that allows balance in the planets eco-systems. It’s the rhythms that perpetuate life on this world despite some species being so determinedly self destructive. It is our nature which we so often ignore because “I” is afraid. Afraid for themselves and for their extended…
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Autistic Perspective
I am considered autistic and in the case of an autistic in general, they experience the world in the opposite direction. No screening. So they relate to you as the idea in their head. They can potentially grow and reflect you more clearly and they can be reached. And I promise you they do know…
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Views of Desire/Distress
Life is driven by desire. It could be argued to be the single most formative influence in the natural world as well as the artificial world that humanity has made for itself. You would think we would have a handle on such a fundamental aspect of human experience, no? Part of why we lack understanding…
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Pain and Pleasure Blurred
So desire and distress, are these things unrelated? Separate issues? They can be related if you don’t get what you most desire. Possibly all distress is a struggle with desire? We desire something to be a different way so we’re distressed when it’s not. It’s argued by neuroscientists and mental health professionals that desire is…
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Spiritual Strength in Hypnagogic Experience
Mystics of the past were very often seen as “touched.” Originally described as being touched by the gods or spirits, a term we now sometimes use to describe insanity, and we even say that there is a fine line between genius and insanity, or even none at all. The thing people desire most is also…
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Access to Core Consciousness
My last post was a lot of preamble, but my point is, my personal insight is, that you have ready access to your genuine core consciousness in your hypnagogic state. In your instinctive reactions when your conscious mind is not generating static, when you aren’t just consuming and regurgitating the same old meaningless anxieties, this…
Category: Distress
Is the spirit that comes to relieve you of your broken shell evil, or an angel of mercy? Do you know evil truely? Is it not possible that you are under the influence of evils that taint this world to such a degree that everyone accepts them as normal?
When you see the pattern you realize you aren’t defined by it. When you see that ‘what I am’ and ‘what I am not’ are of shallow meaning.
When I see that though I may define myself as being “not” something, I can be that thing, and when I define myself as “being” something that can cease.
“The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection” Thomas Paine