Chubmeister 5000

I know that people really and truly cannot read your mind. It’s easy to think that people are ignoring your wants or emotions because they don’t care about you. But it’s likely that they have no idea what those are. If you’ve told them, they’ve likely forgotten, and may need a reminder — they have their own whole crowded bubble of consciousness... See more

Will we run away from God’s vision or follow God’s call to embrace otherness, with all our ambivalence and anxiety, or will we baptize our prejudice and hatred in the waters of religious faith?

The light being doesn’t judge. ‘When he came across times when I had been selfish, his attitude was only that I had been learning from them, too,’ said a person in Life After Life. Judgment comes only from yourself. The light being emits an all-encompassing, unconditional love that is ‘unimaginable, indescribable’. You feel the happiest you’ve ever... See more

I think you can guide where your attention falls, but you can’t fundamentally change what you care about. Renunciation and abstinence are ways of managing obsession, not a way of ridding yourself of it.

One thing that almost always compels us towards action, or at least deeper reflection, is pain. When we begin to suffer, we start looking for the lesson that will lessen our suffering. This ‘hunger’ for an antidote helps us learn quickly. This is fairly well-understood: when pain gets sufficiently intense that it demands most of our conscious... See more