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Ego

heidelicious — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 10:54:17 GMT

I read a lot about ridding one's self of ego... specifically, zen philosophy believes this is the way to enlightenment...

Here's the epiphany part: "BUT I LIKE MY EGO!!!" - I like other people who have defined egos... Who are themselves... People of whom I can say I haven't met anyone like them...

I've been struggling with this idea... Do you have to get rid of your uniqueness when you get rid of ego? If it is wrong to glory in your own self, is it wrong to glory in other peoples' selves?

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Heres mine ..

RichBatsford — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:21:06 GMT

I am what I am.

I do not judge, I only chose.

There is no wrong.

It is what it is.

I choose to help others, but I have responsibility only to myself.

I choose to love others, but to be happy I need only love myself.

To hate others, is to hate myself.

To help others, is to help myself.

If I do not condemn, I need not forgive.

Conflict arises when I allow either myself or others to prevent me
from being what I am.

Only the present and the future matter, because the past cannot be changed.

The past only matters in as much as I chose to let it affect the present and
thus, the future.

It’s all about choice, my options are infinitely wide.

No rules, just goals.

The question is the answer.

I am the perceiver, not the perception.

I am free.

There is no I, we are one.

Don't be afraid.

Celebrate your life.

Love is real.

Be what you are.

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Minor Epiphany.

sturmeyarcher — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 00:01:44 GMT

I don't think you can get chocolate at the asian food store.

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too confused lately to have any epiphanies...

heidelicious — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 17:44:03 GMT

But then... that's when they usually happen. The mind swirls in this hurricane vortex of ideas and thoughts and pictures and shapes and colors.... and then POOF! All of a sudden a new idea or meaning emerges.

This tribe hasn't been very active lately. ARe you all as confused as I am?

Sending you my love....

Heide

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travel

heidelicious — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 06:58:36 GMT

Good travellers do not necessarily make good hosts!

That is all I'm agonna say.....

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epiphanies about creativity

david — Wed, 25 Aug 2004 00:15:16 GMT

here is one of mine..feel free to post yours as well

SOME WORKINGS OF THE CREATIVE ENGINE

i find myself searching for new methods "or atleast new to me" of processing all the muses that pour into my daily life....what to do with them and most of all figuring out a way to stop them and seal a moment or idea in a stasis....long enough to be able to convey to a form that I and the world can see...whether it be a drawing,sculpture,writing or an idea etched in my long term memory...nothing ever works perfectly but if this was a world where perfection of any kind can be achieved then there would be no need for art i think...but the journey itself makes it all well worth the effort....sometimes i feel that the only thing im taming in this process is my will..yet my mind just gets more and more wild....my will being the force that grabs some feeling or idea and my mind fighting it all the way...eating bits and pieces of it away the longer i try to hold it...till its in a form hardly resembling the form it once was in its natural state in the normal flow of thought...then taking that form i was able to salvage and coating it with things i feel need to be added to make it be able to exist independently...but i know "atleast in my own mind" that what i just created has some trace of the original physic matter i was able to capture from my mind in it....and that is what powers it....after i finish something it doesn't stop growing there....this projection starts to develop its own ideas and ways of existing....of course this is all in my head but the better i get at figuring out what iconic shapes do what to me the more i think im making a blueprint of something my mind wants to exist...it is not what you see..it is what your mind creates when it receives stimulus...most ideas and feelings can only truly be manifested in a multitude of layers...and the layers can go on forever...like life on earth and evolution....there is no end to it...and no start....just a flow of energy that has always existed pulling it along...headed to god knows where....

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Love

Mon, 16 Aug 2004 15:16:37 GMT

You can love more than one person at a time.

I love my girlfriend. I love a girl from ten years ago. I love another girl too. Really. I love them all still 100%. The energy is the same. The intent and the potentiality is the same.

Different people have different capacities for love. I think a lot of people only love one or two people at once, and even then, they refuse to accept that they really love that other person. You really have to give yourself permission, but once you do it, you can love whoever you want to - without guilt, restriction or the need for it to be returned.

I'm not talking about loving your family members. That's something totally different. No, I'm talking about new people who appear in your life and catch something inside of you. Resonate with you. Making your heart race. Affecting your dreams.

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More Please!

heidelicious — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 10:30:03 GMT

I'd like to see more posts... and more people join us.

Below is a copy of conversation from Philosophy of the Conscious/Subconscious tribe where I posted hoping to get people to join us here at Epiphany:

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"I would gladly direct you to any one of my epiphanies, if only you could be a little more specific about what you'd like to see in here... (Trust me, you don't want me to start on one of my uber-long posts! ;) "

Actually I do, believe it or not. I have been purposefully vague in the description to allow people to share whatever they want... the only requirement being that it be a sudden "HOLY SHIT I JUST REALIZED..." type moment. It can be stupid or serious... It should be one of those spur of the moment ideas that maybe doesn't make sense, but it is the moment of "AHA!" that I'd like to capture. People don't always share them for fear of being judged, but exactly why I want a forum for that... While studying creativity and how to harness it, I've found that maybe we throw out 100 "Aha's" for every 1 good idea, but why not share them with people... Maybe we'll find unexpected support for a crazy harebrained scheme or get encouragement to pursue some weird idea for a book or art project...

Thanks for the input though, I will be rethinking how to describe what should be posted there... We'll see. But you should join us. Sounds like you could help break the ice.

P.S.: The reason I posted a thread on this forum, is because I believe that epiphany is an example of the unconscious manifesting itself in the conscious. Something that transcends into our conscious minds... The wacky thought you have right as you wake from a dream.

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paradox

heidelicious — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 23:38:26 GMT

The more I read about politics and philosophy, the less I know. Those two subjects both fascinate me to no end... but it seems like every time I read a new point of view, the more confused I am about my own views.

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August 4

heidelicious — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 21:20:19 GMT

*ding!* *ding!* *ding!* *ding!* Today's epiphany is.....:

Stuff is just stuff.... and too much stuff ties you down. I'm moving today and chose to leave a lot of stuff in storage, for practical reasons such as not having a lot of space in the car.... but really - I just don't need it! It feels soo good. I was pretty stressed out about all the stuff... until now.

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MY epiphany

heidelicious — Sat, 31 Jul 2004 23:40:05 GMT

I have a lot of epiphanies... (Sometimes they turn out to be foolish dreams, misguided drunken prophecies.) ;) I always learn from them... and I encourage my friends to pay attention when you have a mind boggling idea... Write it down, share it, make it happen. Dream BIG!

My latest epiphany is that it would be nice to have a forum to share these momentous occasions.

Tell us _your_ newest philosophy, great idea, sudden realization.

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