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We think emotional pain comes from the outside and hurts us inside. We feel affected by the happening, like victims of circumstance. But emotions are the means by which our bodies feel our thoughts. And our thoughts are how our minds explain what we perceive. What we perceive is the result of what we let our attention explore. Our attention is like our breathing: automatic until intentional. If we attend to that which wants to explore the painful experience, we discover the imposter in us who feeds on chaos and despair. If we then attend to that which exposes the imposter for what it is, we discover our true self who knows the deep secret of our pain.

It's easy to apologize when you find your mistake, the thing you wish not to repeat. You have then shined light on darkness. You have learned and become separate from it. You have understood your actions' impacts on others. An apology signifies that you've learned your lesson. An apology is also a prompting for forgiveness. An apology is an act of reconsolidation. Forgiveness is easy without a self. Answering a sincere apology, it creates compassion.

The ancient inner child resides in DNA and is love. Consciousness is a 3D projection of the higher-dimensional self, currently underperforming. Innate is the body's intelligence of instinct, sensory wisdom of the inner child, unable to speak, for now. The corporeal self is but one part, projected into 4D reality, different every life. Another part stands separate for a purpose, protective and watchful but silent, until you ask for guidance. The remainder remains on the other side of the veil; cheering your victories and sharing your pain, the ancient inner child is always watching. The records of all that happens in every life, memories and experience and wisdom, live in the whales and dolphins. They are moments saved in the planet's crystalline grid, echoing horrors but amplifying compassion, replaying details preserved in context. They reside in the cave of creation, hidden safely within the planet, whose magnetic grid, whose matter, and whos...

The more we think we know about how the body works, the more we think it needs our help to do its work. We think we can improve upon nature's design, ignorant of our bodies' superior intelligence. The more we think we know about how the planet works, the more we think we can help it do what it has always done. We think it needs our help to survive the effects of our actions, ignorant of the planet's ability to care for itself and its offspring. Prejudice against unconventional minds stagnates our creative reservoir. Denial of the existence of the immaterial precludes scientific progress. Disbelief in everything but ourselves makes a prison of our ambition. Pride in how far we've come blinds us to the wonders still before us. How amusing it is to laugh at we thought we knew. How amusing it will be to laugh at what we think we know. How amusing it must be to watch us discover our own ignorance. How amusing it must be to watch us disregard the answers in ...

The improbability of quantum tunneling in fusion joins hydrogen to its pair, life of our sun. The improbability of quantum tunneling in molecules leads hydrogen to its place, life of our cells. The improbability of quantum tunneling in DNA separates hydrogen between nucleotides, life of our lives. The improbability of quantum entangling in neurons joins one mind to another, yields understanding. The improbability of quantum entangling in time leads souls to their paths, yields synchronicity. The improbability of quantum entangling in galaxies separates stars from each other, yields order. Creation in every sense of the word is improbable. Structure is possible because of bias in physics. Reality has an attitude of benevolence. Consciousness collapses superposition. Self-organization expresses love. Evolution celebrates creation. Consciousness is coexistence. Creativity is divinity. Life is love.

Once you've shown your body what you want it to do, stop micromanaging. Trust your body to do the rest. It's better at learning than you are at training. Direct with simple, pure intent. Let go of all other instructions to your body. Notice mistakes, but go no further in correcting them. Let your body do that. Let your body teach you what works and why. Then chew on that knowledge.

Belief is like a followed command. External intent internalized. If the belief aligns with truth, it is dependable in practice. If the belief aligns with truth, questioning it yields knowledge. Knowledge yields perfect faith. Knowledge is therefore power. The instrument of this power is called "imagination."

Truth is strange as fiction. The best parts of fiction are true. Fiction serves as a vehicle for truth. Truth becomes stranger than fiction. But it's also undeniably familiar. Like we've known it all along. The creator in each of us is The Creator. Creativity is divinity.

Fear breaks synchronicity. Fear is denial of universal support. Fear is like shadow, with no place among light. Fear is denial of the power within. We are the creator playing mortal. We play well by learning to notice intuition. Guidance is never what we expect. Creativity is divinity.

Belief is energy. It is a burden or a catalyst. How we use it determines which. We say we believe it. Do we believe it enough to use it? There is no judgement for our disbelief. Belief is premature perception. We prematurely decide what is possible. We put ourselves in a paltry perceptive prison. We've built walls within our innate. We've limited ourselves in every direction. They are no longer necessary for our safety nor success. Belief is pre-cognized commitment. What have we been trained out of experiencing? "Miracle" implies unexpectation because we don't really believe. How can we rid ourselves of filters we don't know exist? Don't worry about minutiae. Listen to intuition. Affirmations. Talking to our bodies. Following love and compassion. We stop listing things we can't do. We stop questioning the process of doing. We stop asking "how many?" and "how?" and "when?" and "where?...

Love is giving. Receiving is not the opposite of giving. It is the propagation of love. Love is truth. Fiction is not the opposite of truth. It is the hidden message of love. Love is empathy. Apathy is not the opposite of empathy. It is the unknown craving of love. Love is light. Darkness is not the opposite of light. It is the prolonged lack of love.

When a new thought appears, it's a chance to articulate something profound. Do it in writing. Read what you wrote, and if it's not true or can be truer, write it again. Read it from start to end, until it has finished speaking. Read it from different perspectives, until it feels the way you mean it to feel.

Faith is less "believing that..." It is more "believing in..." It is an act of will. It is positive, peaceful, lovely.

There is a problem in our current thought patterns. The problem is not knowledge itself, nor is it belief. The problem is believing in knowledge. Believing in knowledge is faith in finite understanding. Knowledge is a floor under your feet and a ceiling over your head. It enables you to exist in this world, but to exist in this world is to be fundamentally limited. To grow past our current limits, we cannot stand upon, nor hide underneath, knowledge. We must consider knowledge nothing more than belief. Not believing in knowledge is limitlessness.

Do by not-doing, not forcing, but directing. Use only the necessary effort at only the necessary time in only the necessary way. Do not try; simply do. If you make a mistake, it doesn't matter, except that you have new knowledge to help you. Anticipating leads to stuttering and tripping over oneself. Do not think while doing; simply think, then do. To achieve flow of routine, finish the cycle by preparing for the next. Water shapes earth in time. Earth shapes water in space. Extremes yield extremes. The narrow, winding, middle road leads to unity. Don't counter extreme with extreme to bring balance. Bring balance by aligning, flowing, connecting, increasing mass and inertia, stabilizing, centering. If things are overwhelming, zoom out. If things are underwhelming, open your eyes and be grateful. When you are tired of nothing, create something. When the water is too still, skip a pebble.

Labels are imaginary boundaries. They don't exist, but they determine how we see and treat them. When we name something, we make it separate in our minds. We forget this separation is imaginary. When we name things uniquely, we see them as unique. When we use the same name to describe many, we see them as the same.

"Mono" means one, alone, single. "Stereo" means solid, three-dimensional. One gives rise to two. Two gives rise to three. To truly experience depth, we require at least two perspectives. The conflict between the left and right eyes and ears creates the experience of perceiving three dimensions. "Type" means "a category of people having common characteristics." "Characteristic" means "a feature or quality belonging typically to a person, place, or thing and serving to identify it." These are mutually defining words; each gives rise to the other. What exactly is a "stereotype"? "A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing." Notice "image" and "idea." Notice the word "oversimplified." Notice the word "fixed," as in "solid." "Solid" as in "unchanging," which people ...

A period of time is both a length and a cycle. An iteration is the both the same and different. Every line is part of a larger curve. Every curve spirals along a line. The soul desires to be like the spirit. The son desires to be like the father. Order and chaos are reproduced. Chaos and order reproduce.

If you find you don't agree with a single word from someone's mouth, you haven't yet begun to see from that person's perspective. If you find you agree with every single word from someone's mouth, you haven't yet found the edges of that person's perspective. Knowing one truth does not make another untrue, since all truths are actually features or silhouettes of truth.

Every perspective is true, if you know what you're looking at. Every word makes sense, if you know what is meant. You can find y, if you know x. If you know the equation. If you know y, you can find x. If you know the words, you can make sense of the meaning. If you know truth from every perspective, you can find it in everything.

Truth is limitless, but language has limitations. In truthful language, we are as precise as we are able without conveying more detail than we know. Therefore, the amount of detail that can be knowingly conveyed is limited by the speaker's knowledge. However, details from other perspectives merge to redress the limitations. They correct each other, revealing the balance that reveals the truth. If we already have the detail, we don't notice the gaps. We are not led astray by ambiguity. But we are inclined to become oblivious to the many forks and pitfalls in the roads we choose to travel on the way of truth.

The seed begets the tree which yields fruit. The truth begets understanding which yields perspective. Is there more than one truth then? Must we worry about which seed we plant? If the seed is indeed truth, then there is only one seed. The seed leads to fruit, but we must eat the fruit to find the seed within. Fruit does not last long. It is best consumed between ripeness and freshness. A fruit that goes uneaten spoils. Perspectives are temporal. They are best used between comprehension and novelty. A perspective that goes unused invites corruption. The only decision to make is which fruits to eat. Don't eat rotten fruit.

As we accumulate and assimilate more and more perspectives, we tend to let go of and forget less useful, more distorted perspectives. Empathy is the ability to identify and make use of others' perspectives. To practice empathy, practice looking at things from diverse perspectives at once. Don't look at the perspective, because then you will be inclined to judge it. Use the perspective to interpret, then translate the interpretation.

The past is what was existing, but exists no more. The future is what does not yet exist, but will. Now is all that does exist. Past exists only when you drag it into the present. Future exists only when you anticipate and worry ahead of time. They exist only when you make them exist. When they exist, they are no longer past and future, but facets of the present.

A question without an answer is a vacuum seeking to be filled, but an answer without a question is an arrow without a target. To give an answer to people who need it, you must first show them their question.

The soul is the illusion of identity. The imaginary boundary between self and not-self. The soul is the physical expression of spirit, and is the accumulated experiences of the mind. Spirit shapes the soul when the soul heeds it, and is the accumulated experiences of all of humanity. Spirit transcends space and time, but soul clings to the past and future.

Knowing is the result of experiencing truth directly. The result of deciding against denial. The only acceptable reproduction of truth. Truth that claims to be truth is not truth, but merely a perspective of truth. Truth must be experienced directly. Believing is an act of will, an agreement in the soul. An acceptance of a reproduction of a reproduction of truth. A stepping stone temporarily serving as knowledge. Non-truth that claims to be non-truth is aligned with truth. But non-truth that hides between expressions of truth is the corruption that grows beside truth as a strangling vine. Spirit recognizes truth as one remembers a forgotten fact. It cannot be persuaded against truth as the soul can. Instead, it yearns to free truth from all confusion and deception.

Faith is simply the product of your attention. Or, faith equals attention. The measure of your faith is the degree to which you can believe. Believing is an act of the will, a choice. Deciding is the essence of every act of will. To decide is to cut off other paths, investing no further faith/attention into other possibilities. Fear is attention given to worry-inspired thoughts. Faith in the opposite direction. Negative faith. Faith put into fearful futures creates footholds for malicious spirits, literally doing your enemy's work. This is why worrying is worse than nothing. Be nothing and let the spirit show you the way out. Be nothing by letting rational thought run its course into silence, then listening to the peace-inspired thoughts. Be nothing by recognizing the ego, remembering neither past nor future exist. There is only now.

Denial reveals an interesting truth. Adopting a new perspective can pose such a daunting task that one's rational mind surrenders by choosing ignorance. However, one need not engage the chaos as an enemy if one realizes that a change in perspective is not a sudden leap into battle. It can instead be a dance between the spirit and the soul, wherein the soul patiently revisits past perspectives, and the spirit illuminates old shadows therein.

The spirit is who you are inside reality, outside of the physical world. It is the eternal consciousness that whispers its wisdom to the soul. It speaks in a still, quiet voice as intuition, or divine knowledge. It knows love and truth as one knows one’s own name. The soul is the persona stored in the brain. It is the operating system of the body. It exists as a neural network. It houses the physical will. One must choose to submit one’s rational mind to the intuitive mind. One must choose to listen to the spirit, and learn to trust it. Let the spirit win every dispute with the soul, as the parent disciplines the child in love. In this way, the spirit shapes the enlightened soul as sunlight shapes a tree.

Everything is true from a perspective. Some perspectives are more accurate than others. But perspectives are not truth, and truth is not perspective. Truth is singular. It appears as many truths, which manifest as everything, from matter to love. Its many appearances are received and understood by means of perspective. No perspective is truth. Perspective is like a single ray of light reflecting truth. We may learn more and more of truth by exploring many perspectives, while evaluating their accuracy according to the heart, and holding that no perspective is a perfect image of truth, yet rejecting no perspective entirely, since even the most distorted ray of light is a signal by which to gain information and then understanding. We develop our understanding of truth by painting a picture of truth from the many perspectives we encounter throughout our lives. These images are imperfect and incomplete, but while our eyes are open, we improve them as long as we curate them with care...