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Re: Self-Development [Re: lessismore]
    #19296570 - 12/19/13 04:45 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

I am here to make  music because that's the only career I'd ever willingly do, and if other people like what I create, then great
Nice thread sheekle it gets people thinking and stuff you're a good chap


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Re: Self-Development [Re: psychodelia]
    #19296597 - 12/19/13 04:59 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Who am I?
I am my awareness.

Everything else: my personality, my appearance, and my mind; are all the result of circumstances applied to biological systems.

People never know who they are because they die having identified with these material and superficial things that they had little-to-no control over.

"You", as others perceive your likeness, are not the direct creation of yourself but rather a series of conditioned habits that resulted from the experiences and circumstances you were born into once applied to your bodies genetic expression.


You are only your awareness. Nothing more.

And this awareness is shared in all living things.

Man attempts to distance himself from the encompassing cosmos simply because he is "self aware".
This is only a cognition that is the result of a developed cortex.
It betrays man as much as it blesses him.

Damage the brain in a particular way; and the human is no longer self aware, but is simply aware.  Some would call this a "vegetable".

So does a vegetable have a soul?

Well does it have an awareness?

In my eyes, they are the same thing.



The simplest thing that science currently cannot explain because it stems not from the material world.


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Re: Self-Development [Re: Legend] * 1
    #19296904 - 12/19/13 07:34 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Quote:

Legend said:
Quote:

Uzziel said:
So do you hippies have a job paying above min wage or what

:evil:



i get paid in love



What's the exchange rate for bitcoins?


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Re: Self-Development [Re: Sheekle]
    #19296958 - 12/19/13 07:53 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

self-improvement, Sheeks.
one cannot develop themselves, one simply develops.
the choices we make effect our lives, make good choices and the effects are more likely to be good.


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Re: Self-Development [Re: broken]
    #19297221 - 12/19/13 09:28 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

choosing better decisions over bad ones you have making would be called self improvement, and you are thus developing yourself into a better person.


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Re: Self-Development [Re: Sheekle]
    #19297270 - 12/19/13 09:47 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

:feelsgoodman:


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Re: Self-Development [Re: 404]
    #19297496 - 12/19/13 10:47 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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StateOfMind404 said:
choosing better decisions over bad ones you have making would be called self improvement, and you are thus developing yourself into a better person.



that's the best way of self-development IMO

stop doing what makes you unhappy
start doing what makes you happy, keep doing it


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Re: Self-Development [Re: lessismore]
    #19297584 - 12/19/13 11:16 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

The tricky thing is that often the things that make us "happy" in the short term via sensory gratification eventually end up making us unhappy. I guess that's where wisdom comes into play. Wisdom mostly being gained by suffering.


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Re: Self-Development [Re: nicechrisman]
    #19297615 - 12/19/13 11:31 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

happiness is true happiness,joy

not sense pleasure which is only temporary and which you need something for

happiness you can repeat and be equally happy again
if you once been happy in your life, you can often repeat that and be happy again


but yeah true, without knowing what is good or bad for you there is no way of navigating
learning from mistakes/suffering seems to be needed

everything happens only when we are ready it seems

a wise man is a man who has made many mistakes :-) and now tries to avoid making the same mistakes


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Re: Self-Development [Re: lessismore]
    #19297845 - 12/19/13 12:36 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

i'm pretty sure the only way to self develope is u gotta watch evangelion. 

i watched eva before i ever did drugs then fricken every acid trip i had was like the end of eva.

http://veehd.com/video/4689783_Neon-Genesis-Evangelion-E25-Do-you-love-me
10:00


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Re: Self-Development [Re: lessismore]
    #19298073 - 12/19/13 01:40 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Quote:

nicechrisman said:
The tricky thing is that often the things that make us "happy" in the short term via sensory gratification eventually end up making us unhappy. I guess that's where wisdom comes into play. Wisdom mostly being gained by suffering.



Quote:

mio said:
happiness is true happiness,joy

not sense pleasure which is only temporary and which you need something for

happiness you can repeat and be equally happy again
if you once been happy in your life, you can often repeat that and be happy again


but yeah true, without knowing what is good or bad for you there is no way of navigating
learning from mistakes/suffering seems to be needed

everything happens only when we are ready it seems

a wise man is a man who has made many mistakes :-) and now tries to avoid making the same mistakes



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Re: Self-Development [Re: Sheekle]
    #19298712 - 12/19/13 04:26 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

here's a quote from Wyatt Woodsmall a famous speaker on  neurolinguistics. he said:
"In order to improve your self, you have to become not your self."
I really like this quote. he's referring to how ego can get in the way of self development and how a person needs to be willing to do things differently instead of identifying them selves with their previous behaviour/thoughts


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Re: Self-Development [Re: Magenta]
    #19298735 - 12/19/13 04:31 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

that's a good way of looking at things


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Re: Self-Development [Re: Sheekle]
    #19298876 - 12/19/13 04:56 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

I don't think we need improvement because I heard that we're all just the chonky chonks that do the chonky chonk things.


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Re: Self-Development [Re: FrozenHappiness]
    #19298882 - 12/19/13 04:57 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

:awepreciation:


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Re: Self-Development [Re: Sheekle] * 2
    #19300654 - 12/19/13 11:53 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

when meditating/living in touch with nature, the self improves itself

the self knows exactly what it must do

meditate to become oneself
walk in nature, psytrance/trance is great too

it is the love we have forgotten often
love for oneself, love for all things

anything that brings back that love will help

as john lennon said:
dance for peace, breathe for peace, eat for peace, make love for peace ;-)

if you dont want peace why should you get it, or even search for it
but you can get peace at any moment, if you want peace, peace is now

you got everything you need

I want peace now :-P
so I turn off my tv


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Re: Self-Development [Re: lessismore]
    #19302965 - 12/20/13 01:39 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

peace is for the weak.


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Re: Self-Development [Re: Sheekle]
    #19303781 - 12/20/13 04:32 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Self-improvement is a poor goal for most of us.  We resolve every New Year's to lose that extra fifteen pounds by going to the gym every day, to quit drinking beer after we get home from work, etcetera etc... and a month later we're back to our same old habits and destructive routines.  Sure, improvements are possible to one's lifestyle and they can make you a little happier.

But there's something far more worthwhile than self-improvement out there.  It's called self-acceptance, and it's the key to lasting happiness.  Being able to accept who you are, with all of your shortcomings and negative personality traits, is infinitely preferable to trying (and failing) to change yourself into an impossible ideal of the ego-created concept that is perfection.


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Re: Self-Development [Re: deCypher]
    #19303791 - 12/20/13 04:34 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

You can accept what you have and still strive towards greaterness lol


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Re: Self-Development [Re: Sheekle]
    #19303797 - 12/20/13 04:36 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Duh.  Acceptance is necessary before self-improvement is truly possible or most efficient, however, and most people have much more trouble with self-acceptance than with anything else, IMO.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
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