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MystikMushroom
I RULE YOU!
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Self-Love
#5436262 - 03/23/06 10:31 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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We all need to love eachother...for real! Let me explain a bit...
I just went to my dog and wispered to him, "I love you"..In that instant I realized that I was also my dog, living the life of my dog in an "parallel reality". I know that all possibilities co-exist overtop of one another, and that I currently and inhabiting just one layer of reality. At some other point I am also my dog.
Telling and letting my pets "feel" my love is a form of "self-love". I think this can also be applied to other humans. I think pets offer us a quick and easy way to "understand" just how the love we give is the love we *GET*.
We need to start loving ourselves, and eachother as if they were ourselves. Only then do I see massive change and perception shifting happening.
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MushroomTrip
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I had this feelings several times too. That I am somebodyor something alse. That in way I have acces to friend's of my cat's or some other person's consciousness. And viceversa.And everytine I was aware of that, I noticed empathy on some level.
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   All this time I've loved you And never known your face All this time I've missed you And searched this human race Here is true peace Here my heart knows calm Safe in your soul Bathed in your sighs
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MystikMushroom
I RULE YOU!
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It's there...Whatever we choose to belive is real.
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BlueCoyote
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 Beeing there all the time. It is true, first they take your self-esteem, you begin to dislike yourself, and then the love to others from us will fall apart automatically. Have empathy in everyone and everything including yourself. Be aware not to loose it. Animals as a good bridge to nature itself are for great help.
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leery11
I Tell You What!

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BlueCoyote said: It is true, first they take your self-esteem, you begin to dislike yourself, and then the love to others from us will fall apart automatically.
Bingo. I'm still recovering.... I can't blame because I was disabled disarmed and dehumanized and depersonalized against my will. I went from loving to withdrawn and isolated. But I didn't do anything to deserve it, but it still happened anyway.
But it makes things so much more tricky because now in order to love people I have to love my current environment of masochistic people that think shooting cats with 22s is "funny" that are joining the army... that love death metal and are going to die prematurely from smoking excessively and drinking too much. That really aren't loving people but aren't mean or ill-willing people to me, either.
So my situation is do I say, sorry guys I don't care about you..... and just love my friends that are already loving friends.... because clearly these people deserve love, and in some ways I "love" them and I'm kind to them.
But clearly they aren't the people that will bring love back to you. Do you work on it? Or do you cast them aside and just attach to people that are the same as you? Part of the issue is that they could love me, and I could love them.... but there are many barriers standing in the way of developing and expressing such love.... it doesn't come naturally.... the trivial "yeah that's a good tv show" and "want a beer" shit is in the way of any real communication. And I feel like it isn't really worth trying to make something like that happen, just to see if it does, and if it doesn't then to just flow and either grow apart from them or closer to them.
The thing is I know 3-5 amazing people that are full of love, yet I am not regularly associated with them and they are not the "friends" that I am in most contact with. The other "friends" aren't really worth keeping.
Do you guys get what I mean? Is part of being a loving person sticking with people that view you as in a rut that they may never get out of? Or does doing so drag you down with them? it seems to me that you have two kinds of love:
general love which is more like compassion which diluted is more like kindness and tolerance for others existence and wishing them well. and intimate personal love for indivuals... which you should only give to those willing to recirprocate fully.
I also feel like I am my animals.... I looked in the mirror one day and saw myself as my dog.... and the poor thing is rather miserable sometimes because he has bad allergies and all these growths on his body and I feel bad for him. I try to pay attention to him as much as I can but I feel like I'm more "linked" to him than I am to my other dogs......... and I sure don't want to BE him, no way, no how whatsoever would I want to be him or any other animal. But I do love him and want to improve his situations.
-------------------- I am the MacDaddy of Heimlich County, I play it Straight Up Yo! ....I embrace my desire to feel the rhythm, to feel connected enough to step aside and weep like a widow, to feel inspired, to fathom the power, to witness the beauty, to bathe in the fountain, to swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human...... Om Namah Shivaya, I tell you What!
Edited by leery11 (03/24/06 09:25 AM)
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Maitereya
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Re: Self-Love [Re: leery11]
#5439976 - 03/24/06 11:41 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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leery11: holy crap, you just pinpointed my life.
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I'm still recovering.... I can't blame because I was disabled disarmed and dehumanized and depersonalized against my will. I went from loving to withdrawn and isolated. But I didn't do anything to deserve it, but it still happened anyway.
i feel the same way, my solution is to find people who are spiritualy oriented and learn from them. thats part of the reason i spend so much time on message boards and reading from other gurus.
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So my situation is do I say, sorry guys I don't care about you..... and just love my friends that are already loving friends.... because clearly these people deserve love, and in some ways I "love" them and I'm kind to them.
im sure everyone goes through the same de-humanizing, but the friends dont realize and they accept what has happened, even though it means the rest of their life may be absolute shit.
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The thing is I know 3-5 amazing people that are full of love, yet I am not regularly associated with them and they are not the "friends" that I am in most contact with.
wooooaaahhhh me too. weird world eh? my solution is to join a commune and become a spiritual adept, hopefully. but that isnt always a viable solution, so i would say become closer to the 3-5 friends and ditch the others. it sounds kind of mean but... it gets to that point.
anyways leery11 your on my list of cool people at shroomery.org congrats.
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