Spirituality

ego-death can be painless

By request.

accurate perception, no projection

Perception is sensory-based, including the mind, and limited by context, which determines whether seeing is partial or holistic, i.e. parts or wholes. Accurate perception requires a context that encompasses the whole.

T/F: love for others requires self-love

By request. Is this the correct relationship between the heart (loving others) and thymus (self-love)? That one must first love himself before he can love others?

truth is always present

Attributed is Dr. Hawkins.

thinking is overrated

If you've ever tried to think yourself out of overthinking, you know what I mean.

potentiality / actuality is its own reward

Potentiality is unmanifest. Actuality is manifest. The potentiality-actuality threshold is 600.

healing the past in the present potentiates the future

Spiritual work you do now opens up options and energies you didn't have before the work.

humility and awe are consequences of realizing the unfathomability of the universe...

A state of diminished ego, knowing that you do not know, yet aware of perfection beyond human comprehension. By request.

accommodating the spiritual ego of others

Letting them have the "win."

samsara

Referred to with terms or phrases such as transmigration/reincarnation, karmic cycle, or Punarjanman, and "cycle of aimless drifting, wandering or mundane existence". When related to the theory of karma, it is the cycle of death and rebirth -- wikipedia.

praying for the same thing over and over

Request: Is this a desire thing or maybe a pragmatic way of staying aligned with something meaningful? I usually feel better when I talk to God about it but it seems kind of compulsive at times too.

Let me see this with love, O Lord!

Priority request: A way to recontextualize. The shift in reality is immediate and profound.

old soul

Request: “Someone who seems unusually mature, wise, and insightful for their age, often possessing a deep understanding of life and a strong sense of empathy” - Google AI.

statement: consciousness calibration is all one needs to reach enlightenment

By request.

attachment to sex

Request: Sex is a huge part of our culture, and we have likely been programmed into desire and attachment. The pleasure, the ego involvement, feeling love...