empathy
Priority request: It seems like a very significant milestone in consciousness when one stops and thinks, "How would I feel if someone did that to me?"
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Living Buddha, Living Christ, by Thich Nhat Hanh
"On the altar in my hermitage," he says, "are images of Buddha and Jesus, and I touch both of them as my spiritual ancestors" -- Thich Nhat Hanh.
This is Marketing
You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See, by Seth Godin
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, by Gabor Mate
"Maté looks to the root causes of addiction, applying a clinical and psychological view to the physical manifestation and offering some enlightening answers for why people inflict such catastrophe on themselves" -- goodreads.
Hara meditation
by request: "David R Hawkins mentions it in Healing and Recovery (in regards to using it during intimacy)."
flakiness
Request: I've noticed this as a growing social trend. people baling on plans or commitments with no sincere reason.
a pure heart
Request: I feel like Enlightenment might be an overwhelming goal for someone who's not sufficiently evolved spiritually, and maybe aiming for purity of heart (which is suspect is around LoC 540) is a more realistic and practical goal for this lifetime.
realm of "clockwork elves" entities on DMT
When people consume enough DMT... to have a “breakthrough” experience, they often encounter beings, commonly referred to as “elves,” who seem to be autonomous. Some people are convinced these beings exist in a reality that is separate or invisible from our own -- bigthink.com.
Outliers: The Story of Success, by Malcolm Gladwell
repeatedly mentions the "10,000-Hour Rule", claiming that the key to achieving world-class expertise in any skill, is, to a large extent, a matter of practicing the correct way, for a total of around 10,000 hours -- wikipedia.
duality
"the quality or state of having two different or opposite parts or elements" -- merriam-webster.
surrendering something we want in the hopes of then being able to receive it
Hope suggests an incomplete surrender, yet the result is still positive.
"If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be suffering"
Priority request: An excerpt from "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl.
extinction
request: seems a bit more severe than death... but maybe they're the same?
eugenics
"Historically, eugenicists have altered various human gene frequencies by inhibiting the fertility of people and groups purported to be inferior or promoting that of those purported to be superior" -- wikipedia. The TvF calibration of Eugenics is 105 (awareness).
song: Day is Done by Nana Mouskouri
Do you ask why I'm sighing my son / You must inherit what mankind has done / In this world full of sorrow and woe / If you ask me why this is so I really don't know.