#awakening — Public Fediverse posts

Who am I now that I no longer belong to this world, now that the persona has dissolved into the ocean of the Universe?

A naked presence...

#awakening #character #growing #introspection #jlbouzou #meditation #persona #thoughts #writing

Who am I now that I no longer belong to this world, now that the persona has dissolved into the ocean of the Universe?

A naked presence...

#awakening #character #growing #introspection #jlbouzou #meditation #persona #thoughts #writing

Who am I now that I no longer belong to this world, now that the persona has dissolved into the ocean of the Universe?

A naked presence...

#awakening #character #growing #introspection #jlbouzou #meditation #persona #thoughts #writing

Who am I now that I no longer belong to this world, now that the persona has dissolved into the ocean of the Universe?

A naked presence...

#awakening #character #growing #introspection #jlbouzou #meditation #persona #thoughts #writing

Who am I now that I no longer belong to this world, now that the persona has dissolved into the ocean of the Universe?

A naked presence...

#awakening #character #growing #introspection #jlbouzou #meditation #persona #thoughts #writing

I WANTED GOD BY FRIDAY 💎

When I was young, I wanted the truth passionately.

I read all the books.

I listened to all the teachers.

I really tried to meditate.

I tried to forgive, though it was traditional forgiveness rather than ACIM forgiveness.

I had tried hard to become peaceful.

Ha!

Sometimes I even became quite good at the practice.

Then pride would enter the field and ravage everything.

It was not real yet.

I was too busy being young.

Too hungry.

Too frightened.

Too unhappy.

Too caught in the body, the world, sex, food, ambition, approval, and the endless hope that something or someone outside me would finally make life feel complete.

Preferably by Friday.

Unbeknownst to me, I was trying to get out of life before I had properly lived it.

That was a mistake.

Young people are not supposed to spend all their time trying to escape the world.

They should be f**king each other.

Making new art.

Creating new music.

Building new things.

Making old mistakes.

Loving badly, then better.

Getting their hearts broken.

Buying furniture that they already know they will regret.

Learning what matters by wasting enormous amounts of time on what does not.

That is practically the entire curriculum.

The practice came later for me.

Much later.

Not because I finally became spiritually special.

Because I finally became ready.

The body changed.

Appetite changed.

The need to be someone began to loosen its grip.

Life had already had its way with me.

Repeatedly.

Profoundly.

Without asking anybody’s permission.

And now, near the end of this life, looking toward the exit does not feel dramatic or sad.

There is no white robe.

No celestial choir.

No soft lighting.

It feels simple.

I am already halfway there.

I may as well breathe consciously and enjoy the view.

#truth #books #teachers #meditate #forgiveness #peaceful #practice #pride #young #world #choir #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

THE MAN WHO SHOWED UP

For 65 years, I thought I had #failed at everything.

Then #COVID arrived, and I started fasting. I did not have much #faith in myself, so I took it one day at a time.

The fear of #illness drove me.

So did the huge #belly.

So did the almost complete absence of #selfEsteem.

None of this was noble at all.

I was #frightened, #uncomfortable, and tired of feeling #trapped in a body I could not trust.

But I kept going.

Day after day.

The results began to show, little by little.

The body became lighter.

Walking became easier.

I began to feel less helpless.

Eventually, I was walking up to ten kilometres a day.

Then, about eighteen months ago, I was scrolling #YouTube, and who should appear but #KevinConnolly.

I started training in his hypoxic breathwork.

I already knew #ChatGPT, and it encouraged me as I tried to #understand what I was doing and what was happening in my #body.

I loved the breathwork.

Absolutely loved it.

So I went at it like a professional.

I never skipped a #session.

Not because I had suddenly become #disciplined and #impressive.

Because something had changed.

Fasting has shown me that I can keep a promise to myself.

Walking has shown me that the body can change.

Breathwork has shown me that the mind can actually become #quiet.

I had spent years believing I was #unreliable, #damaged, and #incapable of changing anything.

But the evidence was now sitting right in front of me.

I had not #failed at everything.

I had simply never #learned to trust myself.

Now I do.

Not through #positive thinking.

Through repetition.

Through breath.

By #showing up again the next day.

I did not become another #person.

I became someone I could rely on.

#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

STOP FEEDING CONFLICT

I did the A Course in Miracles Workbook for years.

Over and over.

I understood many of the lessons.

I valued them.

But I did not find lasting peace through them.

The mind could still turn a grievance, a fear, or an argument into a full-on unsettling production.

Then I began answering mental conflict with two simple words:

NO COMMENT.

I had no idea whether something so simple would work.

I only hoped it might.

What I did not yet realise was that all those years of doing the Workbook, however poorly, had trained my mind to listen to me.

So when I said NO COMMENT, and kept saying it, the mind eventually got the message.

Not as suppression.

Not as denial.

Not even as another argument with the ego.

Just no participation.

A thought appears.

NO COMMENT.

A grievance starts gathering evidence.

NO COMMENT.

Fear wants a hearing.

NO COMMENT.

For me, this simple practice has now replaced the Workbook.

Not the Text.

Not the Manual for Teachers.

I still need those because they explain the thought system and remind me not to make up my own spirituality.

My daily practice has become very simple now.

The Workbook trained my mind to listen to me.

NO COMMENT gives it one clear instruction:

Stop feeding conflict.

That is where the peace began.

#STOP #FEEDING #CONFLICT #Text #grievance #NoCOMMENT #feeding #Workbook #instruction #clear #DailyPractice #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

HOT SAUCE APOCALYPSE

Yesterday the lunch place had run out of hot sauce.

In Australia, this is barely news.

Aussies don’t really do hot sauce.

But some of us do.

Some of us have built whole fragile emotional ecosystems around a few drops of chilli on lunch.

I agreed to sweet chilli sauce instead, because apparently I am very mature.

But I did register my disappointment with the manageress.

Politely.

Firmly.

Historically.

Then I went for my walk.

Then I did my breathwork.

Then I noticed the day still had a slight dent in it.

This caught me off guard.

I had only just been saying that everything is perfect all the time now.

Apparently, “everything” includes the lunch place running out of hot sauce and me quietly wanting the owner told so this national disgrace never happens again.

That is how the ego works.

It does not just want lunch.

It wants justice.

And there it was.

Not a catastrophe.

Not a spiritual failure.

Just a tiny place where preference had turned into grievance.

The hot sauce was missing.

The peace was not.

I had simply misplaced it for a moment under the sweet chilli sauce.

#chilli #Australia #mature #Politely #disappointment #Historically #national #ego #justice #lunch #grievance #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

FUTURE LUST

The Urantia Book describes morontia life as something between the physical and the spiritual.

A finer body.

A gentler world.

A place of continuation, learning, and light.

I can feel the attraction of that.

But I can also see the movement underneath it.

Future lust.

The mind leans toward “not here, not yet, later...”

No need to condemn it.

Just notice the reach.

Then return.

This breath.

This room.

This body.

This ordinary morning.

The future cannot give me what presence is quietly offering me now.

#Urantia #Book #learning #attraction #movement #Future #lust #now #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

SIMPLY DO THIS

The truth simplifies everything.

You don’t need to be kind because it is a moral duty.

You don’t need to be kind because it makes you spiritual.

You don’t need to be kind because it improves the self.

In reality, kindness is all that remains available.

The unkindness was the complication.

Fear, defence, grievance, specialness, needing to be right, needing to win, needing to be safe.

All of that makes kindness seem like a choice.

But when defence falls quiet, kindness is not manufactured.

It is simply what is left.

So the question becomes very simple:

What is the kind thing now?

Say less.

Soften the tone.

Tell the truth.

Leave the door open.

Put the fire on.

Feed the dog.

Drink the coffee.

Do nothing.

Simply do this.

#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #SIMPLY #kind #grievance #safe #Soften #truth #coffee #AI

LIFE ENOUGH

Coffee in hand. Breathwork done. Rain over Hobart. Pete nearby. Dogs settled somewhere in the background. Meals on Wheels is waiting.

There was a time when I might have thought this was a small life.

No grand project. No public importance. No impressive busyness. Just the same ordinary movements repeated each day.

But I don’t feel that now.

A life does not become meaningful because it is dramatic. It becomes meaningful because it is fully inhabited.

The body gets older. The weather changes. Plans simplify. The world keeps making noise.

And still, there is this.

The cup warming the hand.

The breath moving through the chest.

The door opening.

The small act of showing up.

The quiet kindness of doing what is in front of you.

Rain falling outside, and this life is enough.

#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #Hobart #project #dramatic #meaningful #weather #kindness

A MIRACLE IN PLAIN CLOTHES

Who knew the #body could design its own #life if we allowed it?

The mind imagines the body as a problem to control. #Feed it, #distract it, #sedate it, #stimulate it, #argue with it, obey every itch and #craving.

But when the noise settles, the body is not stupid.

It has its own quiet #intelligence.

Given enough steadiness, it begins to choose #simplicity.

Early food. Early water. One black coffee. Breathwork. Walking. Sleep. Warmth. Rhythm.

Not because some stern inner monk is barking orders, but because the body discovers what feels good and clean.

#Temptation is mostly bad design, wearing #perfume.

The body gets promised pleasure and is handed #agitation.

But once it has #tasted real #steadiness, it begins to know the difference.

That may be the #miracle in plain clothes.

The body stops being dragged around by every passing #appetite and begins to live from its own deeper #yes

#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum

CLIMBING DOWN

#Hirayama, in #Perfect Days, is not a failed climber.

He is someone who saw the #ladder clearly and stopped obeying it.

That is a very different thing.

The world keeps whispering: more #status, more #usefulness, more #achievement, more #improvement, more #proof that the self is becoming something.

No one has to #whip us anymore. We do it internally and call it ambition.

Hirayama’s freedom is not that he cleans #toilets. That could easily be another prison.

His freedom is that he is not using his life to become impressive.

Water does not need to win.

The useless #tree does not need to justify its #existence.

And “I need do nothing” does not mean sitting around uselessly. It means I do not need to #manufacture a self.

The #body can #clean, #breathe, #walk, make #coffee, light #fires, put #shoes on, feed #dogs, and #love the ones nearby.

But there does not have to be a grand inner project of becoming #Worthy

Simple living is not automatically #holy.

Low status is not #awakening.

A small life can still be full of #grievance, vanity and comparison.

But a life without #comparison ?

That is #freedom.

Maybe the real act is not #climbingdown.

Maybe it is stopping the argument with where I am.

https://youtu.be/pOCCfExW7FQ?si=M7T8VSe8OG1JqKCB

#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum

The universe is always sending you signs. Through a song, a conversation, a sudden idea. You don’t need to wait for the perfect moment. You just need to pay attention and trust what you feel.

“The universe never stops speaking. The only question is whether you’re listening.”

#Intuition #TrustYourself #Mindfulness #Awakening #InnerGuidance #SpiritualGrowth #SignsFromTheUniverse​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ #VeroWellness #TMGcommunity

Taking responsibility isn’t about blame or guilt - it’s about owning your power. When you declare yourself as the cause in your life, you stop being a victim of circumstances. You shift from “this is happening to me” to “I am creating my reality.” This is the foundation of true self-regulation and inner freedom. It’s a context you choose to live from, not a burden to carry.
#SelfRegulation #PersonalResponsibility #InnerPower #Mindfulness #Awakening #Empowerment #Consciousness

Taking responsibility isn’t about blame or guilt - it’s about owning your power. When you declare yourself as the cause in your life, you stop being a victim of circumstances. You shift from “this is happening to me” to “I am creating my reality.” This is the foundation of true self-regulation and inner freedom. It’s a context you choose to live from, not a burden to carry.

#SelfRegulation #PersonalResponsibility #InnerPower #Mindfulness #Awakening #Empowerment #Consciousness

Your power never left—you just forgot you loaned it out.
The illusion only works when you keep believing it. The moment you stop feeding the story, it dissolves.
Your sovereignty isn’t something you need to fight for. It’s already yours. You just need to stop handing it over.
What are you ready to take back today?

#personalsovereignty #mindfulness #selfempowerment #consciousliving #innerwisdom #awakening #selfawareness #meditation #mindbodyspirit #wellness #VeroWellness #TMGcommunity

"I LEFT #CHRISTIANITY & FOUND #PEACE: Free Your Mind"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MduIRLBPcBA

#deconstructingchristianity #FreeYourMind #Religion #Spirituality #Faith #Beliefs #PersonalGrowth #SelfDiscovery #MentalHealth #ReligiousJourney #Deconversion #Enlightenment #InnerPeace #BreakingFree #Awakening #FindingYourPath #LettingGo #SelfEmpowerment #leavingreligion #skeptic

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Nearly 80,000 Dormant Ether ICO Tokens Awaken in 2023, Including 61,216 ETH Transfer to Kraken - Based on onchain metrics, a dormant wallet containing 61,216 ether acquired during... - https://news.bitcoin.com/nearly-80000-dormant-ether-ico-tokens-awaken-in-2023-including-61216-eth-transfer-to-kraken/ #initialcoinoffering #blockchainparser #ethereumaddress #marketobservers #cryptocurrency #onchainmetrics #exchangerates #dormantether #lookonchain #whalealert #awakening #icotokens #transfer

Just Wow!!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/06/01/schizophrenia-autoimmune-lupus-psychiatry/

#Psychiatry #Neuroscience #Immunotherapy #AutoimmuneDisease #Awakening #SchizoAffectiveDisorders #InflammatoryDisease

EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN

I'm going away for a month. When I return, in the new year, I hope to have a new outlook on life. Because, right now, THIS is how I feel.

#newlife #newthoughts #new #anew #renew #rethinking #reawakening #relearning #renewal #newoutlook #openmind #awakening #awaken #thisisthefirstday #newstart #radicalacceptance #therapy #behavioralchange #behaviouralchanges #olddognewtricks #mentalhealth #antidepressants #depression #feelings