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with veins filled of the sea

Columbus, Ohio
Joined June 2007
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Experiment: For a moment, assume you are a piece of life. And everything around you is a piece of life. The earth, the sun, the planets, the grass, the animals, the objects around you, the people around you. Everything is a piece of life. Now see if this is actually true? Your body is an accumulation of food, water which are things from the planet. Your mind is an accumulation of subtle knowledge and learning from the world. Can you find a separate you in existence? Everything that you call 'you' is a piece of earth, a piece of life. Everything that you call 'others' is a piece of earth, a piece of life. Can you exist without the plants and water on earth? Can you see a clear distinction between you and the world? Yes, distinctions are in the mind, they exist if you believe them. If you say - this is me and this is the completely separate other, the mind will believe that idea. But is it really true? Aren't your hands just the creation of earth? Aren't you born of nature? Look at this very practically, question with an open mind, don't cling to prior knowledge and see how separateness doesn't exist. You can't be separate from earth, you are the earth, you are nature itself. Nothing exists separately. The mind can say - I'm having an experience. How is that experience made possible? Isn't nature's evolution created humans from the planet itself? Aren't you a piece of the planet? In fact, there are no pieces of life. There's only life itself - in every stone and in every plant and in every human. Now can you find your ego? Can you find a separate person existing? Belief in separation (separate names and forms) is the only cause of ego. There's no such thing in reality. Life IS.
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'Love is without resentment and readily offers forgiveness. Love and forgiveness will inspire you to work at what you are for rather than what you are against.' ~ Dr. Wayne Dyer
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"Empty yourself of everything; let the mind rest at peace. Watch the ten thousand things rise, then return to their root. To return to the root is to find the stillness of destiny." — Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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The Path Is Complex, the Revelation Simple. The mind makes the journey complex. It fills the path with practices, ideas, and signposts — each a reflection of its longing to grasp the ungraspable. It wants to understand, to achieve, to arrive. And yet, what we call awakening is not an arrival but a disappearance. The effort to become gives way to the simplicity of being. What is found at the end of all our searching was never hidden, only overlooked. We spend years, sometimes decades, circling the same questions — trying to reach what has never moved. Each struggle, each heartbreak, each failure in understanding softens us — until something within simply lets go. In that letting go, revelation dawns. Not as fireworks, but as the stillness beneath the noise. Not as knowledge, but as intimacy with what is. The path is complex because we resist simplicity. The revelation is simple because it was always this.
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It is both a blessing and a curse to feel everything so very deeply.
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“Reality is created by the mind. We can change our reality by changing our mind.” — Plato Collective Unconscious - The collective unconscious is where the energy from all life forms exists and this is the part we tap into when an idea comes to us out of the blue
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Opening up becoming more Like a rose there's always thorns Prick your finger so you can bloom The blood's the price for becoming you
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Suspended in shadows Dancing in light And I will surrender Make it all right
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“When you create a difference in someone's life, you not only impact their life, you impact everyone influenced by them throughout their entire lifetime. No act is ever too small. One by one, this is how to make an ocean rise.” — Danielle Doby
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Man is happiest when he's making himself and the world around him better Create something of your own. Doesn't matter what. Just matters that it's yours An irony of life: Filling yourself through consumption makes you empty Emptying yourself through creation makes you full
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Can I be your night sky And you can count the stars in my eyes
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Under the anger, under the fear, under the despair, under the broken-heartedness, there is a radiance that has never been harmed, that has never been lost, that is the truth of who one is. ~Gangaji
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You can only change yourself but that changes everything.
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My mind is a weird radio. There's always some random song playing in the background.
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