your responsibility as the witness (article)
God doesn't see the ego as real, and the ego doesn't see God as real. You're in the space in between, seeing each as real. So you're in the position of a "negotiator" who sees both "sides."
Spirituality
"I can forgive anything you can do to me"
A high realization. This seems to be a basis for "perfect love casts out all fear."
deciding to live your life to do the best you can
Request: [rather than] "worrying or overthinking about your problems, trauma and shortcomings."
focusing on qualities one wants to attain vs. on weaknesses to overcome
Request: Which focus is more helpful when there is a wish to move forward?
forgiving something clears you of karmic liability for it
Request: so when you forgive yourself and others completely you are freed from all (personal) karma?
level: discernment of intention
As unmanifest power (or force), intention can only be discerned spiritually, not with the physical senses.
all suffering is due to the reign of perception and its attendant duality
A truth extracted from The Eye of the I, Chapter 9. Priority request.
comfort of the soul
Request: From the etymology, comfort stems from strength and is a lack of suffering.
the levels under 195 are all forms of manipulating others
Priority request: This seems to have profound implications.
level: life is like a dream
Authentic state vs. pathological state.
The Sacred Chants of Devi: 108 Sacred Names (audio)
Priority request: I find this comforting and seems to touch deep within.
Eknath Easwaran
Indian-born spiritual teacher, author and translator and interpreter of Indian religious texts such as the Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads -- wikipedia.
never talking about or mentally dwelling in the past
Priority request: I found this in a Barry Long book as a way to dissolve what he calls the false personality. The false self feeds off and milks past experiences, positive or negative, to sustain itself and parasitically saps our energy in the process.
the nature of consciousness is to develop
Request: i.e. above 200, purification is the natural development when it's not being resisted.
truth is the law of the universe
Calibration of statement.