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Life Changing Info

jet57 said:
Yeah, it was quite the time. I stopped smoking, drinking and coffee all on the same day. I went a couple of months after it was over, but moved back when I was "with our world again".

I can tell you that, such intake blocks your ability to receive and dulls your senses.

If you've ever seen what a bee sees, it's like ultra violet: anything with mass, molecules of air, water, anything, actually reflects light - It's all light. Our eyes are adjusted for our place in the world, but it's all light. Signals in our brain are light. When you're there, you can feel that connectedness - in everything. Something that was very very strange, and I probably shouldn't say this but, it was an eyeopener: an acquaintance had jumped off of a building just before I went through the door; couple of weeks I guess, and once I got my legs in my new surroundings, I could understand why he wanted to do it. He wanted to be there. I have no way of knowing if he made it, I'm certainly not interested in cheating the goal line, but this idea of "hell" goes completely out the window.

I think that peak experiences come as matter of clicking the right tumblers at the right time. I don't think we can "make" it happen, although I'm sure there are Yogis etc who would disagree... People who are steeped in the church community may be in an Alpha state, I don't know, but it seems logical based on some that I've met, and it's all meditation anyway.
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yes it's all light...it's nice when people keep confirming over and over what one has arrived at...thanks so much
 
i haven't really been given any advice worth remembering, let alone life changing

just some cliches and platitude - life gives you lemons, make lemonaid etc
 
Tim the plumber said:
You are not getting it are you.
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I do not know whether I should accept the invitation of discussing whether I get it or not, and sacrifice a discussion that may follow from the appealing oxymoronic sentence I made earlier.
 
jet57 said:
Yeah, it was quite the time. I stopped smoking, drinking and coffee all on the same day. I went a couple of months after it was over, but moved back when I was "with our world again".

I can tell you that, such intake blocks your ability to receive and dulls your senses.

If you've ever seen what a bee sees, it's like ultra violet: anything with mass, molecules of air, water, anything, actually reflects light - It's all light. Our eyes are adjusted for our place in the world, but it's all light. Signals in our brain are light. When you're there, you can feel that connectedness - in everything. Something that was very very strange, and I probably shouldn't say this but, it was an eyeopener: an acquaintance had jumped off of a building just before I went through the door; couple of weeks I guess, and once I got my legs in my new surroundings, I could understand why he wanted to do it. He wanted to be there. I have no way of knowing if he made it, I'm certainly not interested in cheating the goal line, but this idea of "hell" goes completely out the window.

I think that peak experiences come as matter of clicking the right tumblers at the right time. I don't think we can "make" it happen, although I'm sure there are Yogis etc who would disagree... People who are steeped in the church community may be in an Alpha state, I don't know, but it seems logical based on some that I've met, and it's all meditation anyway.
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No, its our lord "god" and if you do not sublime to "his" humanly rules you shall go to hell. Now pay religion for this service! - :roll:
 
_Sal said:
What is the most life changing or important piece of advice or information you have been given or acquired over the years?
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I've heard it said a few different ways over the years but....


Some things in life you have no control over, and some you do.
Learn to honestly and truly tell the difference between the two.
The former you must learn to accept without letting them define you.
The latter you must have the strength and will to confront, and improve as you can too.
 
shagg said:
I've heard it said a few different ways over the years but....


Some things in life you have no control over, and some you do.
Learn to honestly and truly tell the difference between the two.
The former you must learn to accept without letting them define you.
The latter you must have the strength and will to confront, and improve as you can too.
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there's some pretty good wisdom in there
 
shagg said:
I've heard it said a few different ways over the years but....


Some things in life you have no control over, and some you do.
Learn to honestly and truly tell the difference between the two.
The former you must learn to accept without letting them define you.
The latter you must have the strength and will to confront, and improve as you can too.
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"Lord....grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change

The courage to change the things I can

...and the wisdom to know the difference"

Written by Reinhold Niebuhr when he was imprisoned by the Nazi's
 
Fearandloathing said:
"Lord....grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change

The courage to change the things I can

...and the wisdom to know the difference"

Written by Reinhold Niebuhr when he was imprisoned by the Nazi's
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He was an American born in Missouri and was 49 when the war broke out, so I'm not sure you have that right.
 
"Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body" (George Carlin). This, for me, was one of the hardest lessons to learn, because it fundamentally goes against everything I've ever been taught; however, once I saw the wisdom in it, I realized that it was completely and undeniably true.
 
SecularSapience said:
"Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body" (George Carlin). This, for me, was one of the hardest lessons to learn, because it fundamentally goes against everything I've ever been taught; however, once I saw the wisdom in it, I realized that it was completely and undeniably true.
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nice :thumbs:
 
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