mindfulness – Page 5

Are there toxic people?

The problem is not with people, but with the fact that we unconsciously choose them with a certain set of characteristics that will ultimately lead to an already familiar result, even if at a conscious level it is not desirable.

If, in childhood, you were ingrained in the pattern “without suffering, there is no happiness,” then each new partner will fall under criteria that will lead to toxic relationships. It will always seem that you are making the choice that you are striving for. In fact, you still don’t know who you are, and you are still learning the mechanisms of life through trial and error.

You see the source of desire or irritation, its merits and flaws, which are actually yours; you just cannot see yourself, so you see your own vices in others. The people around you reflect you in one form or another. This mechanism is the reason why we are able to understand each other.

The fact that there are conflicts and their frequent occurrence causes an uneven growth in awareness.

Awareness depends on some factors, but everything is not completely clear to me since there is no limit to awareness itself and factors change their functions as you move along the life path of growing awareness.

If you manage to turn your attention inward and keep it to yourself, then big changes will soon begin.

You will learn to feel your own body and mind.

After all, few, or perhaps many, people wondered why we were not given exact instructions for the body.

You will have to look for it yourself, listening to yourself. But how exactly do you do this? You ask.

The body wants pleasure, and the mind wants to know. So hear them by directing your attention inward.

You will think it’s crazy and a waste of time. You don’t yet realize that only silence means something in the world; everything is stored in it, and its meanings are broader.

May love be with you!

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One endless game

It’s funny to see when an idiot, trying to be smart, pretends to be an idiot. Despite the fact that one should be considered an idiot neither in a negative nor in a positive sense, it is simply a given.

During this period of intensification of the manifestation of truth in society, the former opposing ideas that could dominate through deception and hypocrisy are no longer valid. No one wore masks because everyone saw the beauty in themselves and others. Therefore, there is nothing to cover up.

So one of the people begins to cover up obvious facts, using, for example, the technique of confusing the minds of “opponents” by denying what is clearly happening.

The question arises: what could be his motive? And there is only one motive—fear. What is our hero afraid of? What is society afraid of, having tacitly agreed to play hypocrisy until the next painful experience of revealing the truth?

The truth is that the hero and society are one. All are manifested in one, just as one is manifested in all. After all, everyone understands what the distortion of the truth will lead to, but still, time after time, they get carried away by the game of opposites, or “I see, I don’t see.”

The passion with which we strive to know the hidden ultimately becomes our obsession and, accordingly, our weakness, despite the fact that we almost always know what exactly is hidden, but we so like to pretend in order to again get the thrill of anxious ignorance and the sweet anticipation of new adventures.

May love be with you!

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Thoughts of balance

The manifestation of evil is a signal that attention is required. Where attention is, there is energy. By controlling attention, we can change the state of things towards balance and vice versa.

If one side predominates in the manifested, then everything is doomed to return to balance through the destruction of another false concept created by the mind.

The essence of all concepts existing on Earth is always the same, but interpretations often distort the very essence for the sake of individual interest or the interest of a group (motive: dominance, predominance of one over the other).

You can verify this by looking at the world tree of religions and choosing one of the branches, asking about the history of its foundation and the reasons for degradation or prosperity.

Why religions? Because this is one of the oldest tools for controlling the consciousness of the masses, which clearly reflects all manifestations of life in its “truths” and dogmas. It all starts with you, it’s all in you. Existing and emerging individuals carry within themselves the potential of a co-creator, which they must reveal and embody within themselves, taking into account the conditions of the path of human life and other factors that impede the process of self-realization.

Having revealed the potential, the individual has the right and opportunity to influence matter and other minds, which in turn are the main source of energy and the very perpetual engine of progress. But the mind of each individual is subject to weaknesses and susceptible to illusions, which force the mind to interfere in processes that do not concern it, which leads to global imbalance and destruction in order to again show the mind that it is lost in itself.

An example of this phenomenon can be found in any of the empires that have ever existed and their rulers, who reached the peak of the development of the individual and the collective but still ran into the illusion of separating themselves from the whole, allowing the Ego to take over, which led to their complete destruction.

The creation of any empire is based on a philosophical concept that basically includes opposites that are initially in harmony with each other.

As soon as opposites become conditioned, resistance immediately arises, which soon leads to imbalance and destruction of one by the other and vice versa, but this is how evolution occurs.

The mind at first adheres to the truth, but an obstacle will inevitably appear on the way, which will draw the mind away from the truth with only one purpose – to remind the mind where its place is.

Since the mind is very strong, as long as it is active, it will not give up trying to show zeal towards the next illusion in the pursuit of imaginary pleasure. The truth is always the same, no matter how bitter or sweet it may seem to the mind.

May love be with you!

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It doesn’t matter what I personally like or dislike.

Name three objects or phenomena that you dislike.

The first is hypocrisy. For me, it’s the most miserable event that exists in human behaviour. Hypocrisy is the reason for many man-made catastrophes. For those who live life from the perspective of truth, hypocrisy is like direct insulting.

The second is violence. Violence creates more violence and pain that accompany the destruction of life.

The third is ignorance. But the fact that the first two things that I don’t like are the results of ignorance.

Anyway, these things are eternal parts of life, which is exciting for the balance and evolution of everything.

In conclusion, I would say that it doesn’t matter what I personally like or dislike because, in fact, everything is alright and in its place. Even negative things exist for good.

The main lesson of life is to learn.

May love be with you!

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My favourite subject at school.

It’s History. Even history has always been changed by the rulers; anyway, the truth is appearing through time.

I am always excited when I see something old and know what period of history it belongs. It seems the spirit of that time stays with the historical item. I love to imagine how people approximately lived their lives there.

As I learn and travel, I feel no difference. Yes, technologies have changed, but the level of ignorance among humans is still high. In the culture where I grew up, the society’s focus of attention was concentrated on the past—what made them lose their lives now—and now they are looking back, rushing forward and even don’t look under their feet. So in this way, those humans never realize that they were blind to what is really happening right now.

That is a sad fact, but I don’t feel sorry for that because those humans are the main reason for their own and next generations suffering.

The world loves everyone, and we are able to see and feel it only if we want.

May love be with everyone.

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Story of your life is the most interesting one.

What book are you reading at the moment?

Don’t you get tired of permanently consuming information from books, movies, YouTube, etc.?

I found that there is no difference in how important the information is. There will be a point where nothing can satisfy your desire to learn.

I realized that information itself is useless without your own experience with anything you read, watch or learn.

I heard from somebody that it’s important how much life is in your days, and it’s not important how many days are in your life.

Every new day is a new story, book, chapter, or episode of your unrepeatable life path. Even a boring daily routine is full of existing and magical moments, which we are usually losing by worrying about whatever.

How nice to be alive and be in love with your own story, where bad events are also good and good events are even better.

I wish to share books that really impressed me:

1. “Steppenwolf” Herman Hesse

2. “Flowers for Algernon”

3. “Meditations: Thoughts to Myself” Marcus Aurelius

May love be with you!

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Be silent and meet a great person in you

If you had the opportunity to meet a historical figure, who would you choose to meet and why?

We don’t realize that we already met them when we first encountered the prints (arts) they left in our culture.

They speak to you every time you think of them. All that wisdom or stupidity in you is from the people who lived on this planet before. So we are in constant connection with them, but we think that all of our thoughts and ideas are only ours.

If you imagine that you met those people in person, it could be a really unpleasant experience because, for you, they will look like just regular people with their own craziness.

How much do you pay attention to those great personalities in your daily life? As Tesla’s, Jesus’s, Buddha’s, and other great people’s contemporaries were annoyed by them, you could feel the same if you were that ignorant to think that you are separated from the universal mind that is all of us.

Be silent and meet a great person in you.

May love be with you!

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Nobody really cares

What first impression would you like to make on people?

Humans are addicted to thinking and get crazy when comparing themselves with others. If you try to impress anyone, get ready to fail or face judgment, which is always unpleasant.

It might hurt you if you are a sensitive empath. Always try to impress yourself, whatever you are doing. As you learn how to do it yourself, others will be impressed by you anyway.

Don’t be dependent on others opinions because they are always wrong. If you have a chance to hear what people sometimes say about you behind your back, it might shock you. So make your opinion important.

Be careful here and don’t step into egocentrism. Be honest with yourself and be able to accept your negative and positive characteristics.

Love yourself, and others will love you, hate yourself, and others will hate you. Accept yourself and you will see the magic happens in your life.

Any perspective is beautiful and unique. When you are the original and not a copy of the copy, you won’t be unconfident from that how others see you.

May love be with you!

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Children are precious gifts of life, and we should never hinder their curiosity or their natural way of expressing themselves.

I have tried to work in very different industries. I have been a farmer, a constructor, an actor, an inspector, and a trader in different fields and the most pleasant and exciting job I have ever had is that of a teacher for young children.

I am a very honest person, so working with children is a perfect match for me. Children are not conditioned by society’s perverted beliefs. They see life as it is, without judgment or labels.

From children, we learn more about ourselves and life as we witness how children grow and discover the world around them. Never lie to children, because they see the very core of life.

It is so important to be honest with yourself and others before you get closer to children’s education.

I’ve seen teachers who are totally hypocritical and full of self-hate educate children and poison little kids with misery and fears. The same things I can tell some parents.

Unfortunately, in my childhood, I had teachers who were emotionally and spiritually damaged by the Soviet education system. I could never understand the violence against children. Even if I took a nonjudgmental position in life, I would never accept those who became teachers with no passion for this profession and who fed their egos by dominating the little ones, causing deep psychological trauma in them. These people even don’t realize how harmful they are to all of humanity.

As the universe shows, nothing is for free, and everything will have a fee.

Children are precious gifts of life, and we should never hinder their curiosity or their natural way of expressing themselves. Help them navigate through life, and don’t limit their experience by imposing limitations that you believe are important because you were educated in such a way.

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Do you regret anything?

Life flows through us, and we are forced, passing it through ourselves, to react to the events that arise in it. Events themselves are neutral, but our reaction is always polar: negative or positive. Polarity is always relative. The richer our experience, the closer we are to the balance between polarities, which is synchronization with the flow of life itself.

Any experience is priceless in itself; it is important to realize what the experience you go through teaches you. Otherwise, it will repeat itself again and again.

Regret about something is a signal that the lesson has not been learned and you will have to deal with it again.

Solitude and meditation are two of the most effective ways to review past trials and look at your character’s life from different angles.

Accepting what was and is, forgiving others and yourself—this path seems difficult and sometimes impossible. Only fear can hinder this process of awareness and liberation from shackles.

What’s your biggest fear? Look straight at it, because most often we are afraid of what we cannot see.

May love be with you!

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