g0ldenstarfish

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love is everywhere tbh. it’s there in the home cooked meals you got from back home a million miles from wherever you are tucked away in the fridge that you heat up whenever cooking from scratch feels like too much. it’s there in the fresh laundry by the dinner table that your past self did because they knew friday nights would be as exhausting as thursday afternoons. it’s in the faint music three blocks down at the local restaurant where you know it’s another birthday party and that there are people happy someone was born and someone is happy to be born out of love and loved still. everywhere there is love and love is everywhere etc etc.

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Support for Palestine should be unconditional by the way. Stop looking for the ways they're just like you (ex: gay, trans, neurodivergent, etc) and support them for the sole reason that theyre literally facing a genocide right now. This is what solidarity is.

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the show (going out to get groceries. making myself a nice dinner. showering and opening the windows. being kind to myself in everything i do) Must go on

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i have the opposite of that “everyone is an npc” mentality people have embraced where i’m instead like. the person next to me in line has someone they can’t wait to go home to, the person picking up their mail has felt devastation before, everyone in this grocery store is doing their sunday shopping, maybe the person that just honked at me is having the worst day of their life, my neighbor has doctors appointments and favorite foods and a song they can’t stand to hear anymore… you are all fully realized complex people and that is overwhelming me on a spiritual level…

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aside from the unbearable melancholia, i feel most myself in the colder months

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Be at peace with everything

You say you want to become free. You say you wish to awaken, become liberated, why does it take so long? Why do I have to go through this life? And go through all the various things that I go through? Take an honest look at yourself. Do you have humility? Do you have compassion? Do you have love? Or do you have anger, fear, hatred? You have to honestly take a good look at your life. See the kind of life you've been living. What are your beliefs? What do you feel about the world, the universe, your self? You have to reconcile yourself with the universe. Be at peace with every living thing, with every sentient thing. Do not allow your mind to tell you anything. Your mind will always fool you. It will tell you all sorts of stories to make you fear - to make you act in a certain way or make you believe a big catastrophe is going to happen unless this or that happens. The only catastrophe that can come upon you is of your own making. You are the one. Do not let the world show you anything that makes you fear or causes you to react. Rather, begin to act from your own divinity. Know who you are. Always be aware of the Self which is you. There is absolutely nothing in this whole universe that wants to hurt you. You have absolutely nothing to fear. Then where does the fear come from? Where do all these negative thoughts come from? These bad feelings we have sometimes? They come from misidentification. This whole world is like a dream. Everything appears so real. We go through different experiences all of our lives and it appears so real. But I tell you, the day will come when you will awaken. And you will realize that you are I-am-that-I-am. You will realize that you are absolute pure awareness. You are the Self. That there never was a time when you were dreaming the mortal dream. But of course, many of you here still do not believe me. For you feel the experience very strongly. You feel all the things that are happening to you. As long as you feel these things and you do nothing to stop the feeling, the attachment to this earth will become stronger and stronger and stronger. This is why certain people can never be in a class like this. For their ego (their mind) is so strong that after they walk out this door, all of the ugly thoughts come back into their mind - the problems they're having, the things that are going wrong in their life, the things that appear to hurt them, the people who have told them the wrong words. And they become very upset; they begin to feel this world again. One day you will awaken from this dream and you will laugh. The awakening can come faster or slower* - it depends on you. It is up to you to begin doing something to yourself so that you may awaken from this mortal dream. So I ask you, "What are doing with your life? How much effort do you put into your spiritual practice?" The more you become involved with the world, the more the world pulls you down. I'm not saying you should give up everything and go and meditate on top of a mountain or in a cave. I am saying continue what you're doing but mentally give up everything. Mentally do not become attached to things by fearing them or loving them or doing anything to them at all. You observe the world and your affairs. You watch what is happening to you.

from Robert Adams satsang

*But also forget about time and don't compare yourself with others

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I’m really getting into the habit of waking up happy and going to bed grateful. Things could be a lot worse, so I’m always gonna be grateful where I’m at.

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Universities should have swing sets

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i am a luxury few can tolerate

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It’s cool. Take a shower. Open the windows to let in fresh air even if it’s cold out. Listen to the wind rustling the leaves & the people walking and chatting. Clean something random to see that you can make a difference through action. This too shall pass

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experts are saying it's fine man, and they recommend that you chill

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death will not do us part you stupid cunt

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what do you mean hes fictional. i need him

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