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You Are the Big Bang

Astronomers say there was a primordial explosion, an enormous bang billions of years ago which flung all the galaxies into space. Well, let’s take that just for the sake of argument and say that was the way it happened.

It’s like you took a bottle of ink and you threw it at a wall. Smash! And all that ink spread. And in the middle, it’s dense, isn’t it? And as it gets out on the edge, the little droplets get finer and finer and make more complicated patterns, see?

So in the same way, there was a big bang at the beginning of things and it spread. And you and I, sitting here in this room, as complicated human beings, are way, way out on the fringe of that bang. We are the complicated little patterns on the end of it. Very interesting.

But so we define ourselves as being only that.

If you think that you are only inside your skin, you define yourself as one very complicated little curlique, way out on the edge of that explosion. Way out in space, and way out in time.

Billions of years ago, you were a big bang, but now you’re a complicated human being. And then we cut ourselves off, and don’t feel that we’re still the big bang. But you are. Depends how you define yourself.

You are actually — if this is the way things started, if there was a big bang in the beginning — you’re not something that is a result of the big bang, on the end of the process. You are still the process! You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are.

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But we’ve learned to define ourselves as separate from it.

We have been hypnotized, literally hypnotized by social convention into feeling and sensing that we exist only inside our skins. That we are not the original bang, but just something out on the end of it.

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And so what I would call a basic problem we’ve got to go through first, is to understand that there are no such things as things — that is to say separate things, or separate events.

So the world doesn’t come thinged; it doesn’t come evented. You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean. The ocean waves, and the universe peoples. And as the wave, I wave at you and say ‘Yoo-hoo!’ — the world is waving at me with you and saying ‘Hi! I’m here!’

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Build a Life That Turns You On

David Cain:

If there’s a real secret to “seduction,” here it is: Always be building a life that turns you on, represent yourself as honestly and straightforwardly as you can, and have conversations with a lot of people. That’s it. Connections will happen. If you’re bad at those things, give yourself as long as it takes to get good at them. You have time.

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Shift Your Mental Diet

Neville Goddard:

Become a drinker and an eater of the ideals you wish to realize. Have a set, definite aim or your mind will wander, and wandering it eats every negative suggestion. If you live right mentally, everything else will be right.

By a change of mental diet, you can alter the course of observed events. But unless there is a change of mental diet, your personal history remains the same. You illuminate or darken your life by the ideas to which you consent. Nothing is more important to you than the ideas on which you feed.

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The Precipice

Tilda Swinton:

I wouldn’t go on performing were it not for this interest in unpicking or examining how it is that we lumber ourselves with the idea that we have one identity, and we have to carry it, and we cannot change it or modify it in any way until we die.

And that both moves me and saddens me; that society has somehow hoodwinked us into thinking that this is the case. Because as far as I’m concerned, identity is a sort of … I’m not sure I believe identity exists. I think the only thing we can really rely on is change, and our sense of ourselves is completely amorphous.

And so, when, if I’m talking about a narrative, and I look back at my work, very often I’m looking at the story of someone who reaches what I call a precipice in their life. When they have to encounter their sense of identity, and they have to shift. Or, they have a choice about whether to shift or whether to perish in some way.

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You Are the Life-Dreamer

Tim Freke, author of Lucid Living:

You are the life-dreamer dreaming the dream of you.

It is an amazing, transformative, bittersweet dream, full of laughter and tears, triumphs and losses, hope and despair.

If you give yourself to this great dream it will awaken you to what-is.

If you consciously engage with this deep drama it will teach you kindness and make you wise.

So why not dare to commit to the adventure of your life?

Because essentially you are always safe, even when the life-dream becomes a nightmare.

That’s right, isn’t it?

When you dream it can be terrifying, but if you dream lucidly you know you are always essentially safe, because you’re not just the person you appear to be in a dream. You are the dreamer.

In the same way, if you live lucidly there is a deep knowing that you are always essentially safe.

So take the risk and really live!

You are the one appearing as someone and your life is deeply significant.

You are the one who can light up the darkness.

You are the one who can bring love to your world.

You are the one you’ve been waiting for.

I am writing these words to wake you up, because I see what a wonder you are.

You are infinite potential playing at being a person.

The creativity that created the whole universe is within you and it wants to express itself through you.

Can you hear the call to share your gifts with the world?

You are the mystery of life made manifest.

I am in awe of your vastness and touched by your fragility.

I see your greatness and your smallness — and I celebrate both.

I encourage you to wake up to oneness and feel the limitless love, so you can embrace your vulnerable, tender, ambiguous humanity — just as it is.

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Go Forward

T. Lobsang Rampa:

Everything is in a state of movement, all life is movement, even death is movement, because cells are breaking down and turning into other compounds. Let us remember at all times that one cannot stand still on a tightrope, one can either go forward or backward.

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Focus on the Beauty

Abraham-Hicks:

Focus on the beauty of your environment in every way that you can. Immerse yourself. Engulf yourself. Do everything that you can to be in love with this, and in love with this, and in love with this, and in love with this, and in love with this. Do everything that you can think of, to do in a day, that will make you happy while you’re doing it.

Because your intentions are already in your Vortex. Your Inner Being already knows what you want, and the path to it. So you just gotta be as happy as you can be, so that you’ll be in the receptive mode, so that you’ll be ready for the idea.

The ideas are being flowed to you all the time. You gotta be happy to get the idea. To receive it. To understand it.

And to feel enough momentum in it to say, ‘This is what I’m going to do.’

If you can get it, that all you gotta do is tap into that, you will never be discouraged again. You’re only ever feeling a feeling of discouragement when you’re not tapped into that.

So, our encouragement to you is, do everything that you can do to just stay in this happy place.

There are so many reasons to be happy.

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Risky Bets

Paul Graham:

Because biographies of famous scientists tend to edit out their mistakes, we underestimate the degree of risk they were willing to take. And because anything a famous scientist did that wasn’t a mistake has probably now become the conventional wisdom, those choices don’t seem risky either.

Biographies of Newton, for example, understandably focus more on physics than alchemy or theology. The impression we get is that his unerring judgment led him straight to truths no one else had noticed. How to explain all the time he spent on alchemy and theology? Well, smart people are often kind of crazy.

But maybe there is a simpler explanation. Maybe the smartness and the craziness were not as separate as we think. Physics seems to us a promising thing to work on, and alchemy and theology obvious wastes of time. But that’s because we know how things turned out. In Newton’s day the three problems seemed roughly equally promising. No one knew yet what the payoff would be for inventing what we now call physics; if they had, more people would have been working on it. And alchemy and theology were still then in the category Marc Andreessen would describe as “huge, if true.”

Newton made three bets. One of them worked. But they were all risky.

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The Universe in Your Coffee Cup

Vadim Zeland, Reality Transurfing:

In the context of infinite space it is ridiculous and even petty to argue about the advantages of one model over another. Try to imagine the infinite in terms of increasing distance that never reaches a horizon. Oddly enough, infinity in terms of decreasing distance has no limit either. We can observe only a limited portion of the visible universe for telescopes and microscopes have their limits too. Nonetheless, infinity in the context of the microcosm is no different from infinity in terms of the macrocosm.

The next time you take a mouthful of coffee ask yourself how many universes you have just swallowed. Infinity cannot be divided into parts and so if you think about it, every time you swallow a mouthful of coffee you are swallowing an infinite number of universes. Flying through a microcosm takes as long and seems as far as it does flying through the boundless expanse of outer space.

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Go Deep

Chris Bowler:

Be ready, because if you blink, you might miss it. Miss what? Something good!

Can we all agree to just let go? To stop caring that we might miss something big, something important?

The output is not going to stop, to lessen, anytime soon. We can never read it all, study it all, or even skim it all.

A few reminders:

To create is better than to consume.

But create for the few, not for the many.

Create for those you can see face to face.

Consume, but remember that the dose makes the poison.

When you consume something that is good, great, transcendent, consume it over and over … meditate on it, then act on it, be changed by it.

Go deep!

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