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12-06-2021, 12:08 PM
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Not really. As someone who works freelance there's a distinction between me as a "server" and the client so there's always an 'I am' and 'you are' on both sides; likewise another along slightly different lines between my parents and myself. Hard to see how you could dispense with the awareness of a distinction between your self (or yourself) and your environment.
I read a lot of tosh here about ego sometimes quoting some pseudo-guru or Hindu stuff lifted right out of context, that sounds wise but serves only to misdirect - and occasionally something useful - but most animal life (I dare say) is aware of individual distinction from others (of the same or different species) around.
Seems impossible to interact on which survival depends for most of us, if one isn't aware of self. We have to negotiate our way through. Look on life in whatever way you might but the practicals are that we're here living it until our individual time is up. Even a solipsist has to recognise themselves as distinct from their figments.
It isn't an issue that bothers me because it is as it is.
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13-06-2021, 05:26 PM
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A question I haven't found a suitable answer to either. Thank you for asking it. Does I AM know itself. Is it aware of itself. Does it know about, that it is the body (illusion) and itself (spirit), knowing both illusion and realty. The spirit also experiences but at a different level of meaning. The body knows only itself, nothing more. Body isn't at the level of spirit and from what I have seen, body would make a very bad spirit, is I am I AM, or even soul. Is (I) spirit perspective aware it is both spirit and body both, where body's perspective does not know it is (also) spirit? Does spirit experience and know it is dimensional. I do find the question difficult because we are not suppose to know this. Maybe someone has an answer. A good question. Knowledge is not complete without experience. Obviously, I AM talking about separation that really doesn't exist at some level.
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Yeah, the I AM is eternally ever expandingly aware of itself.
The point of I AM is to also indicate, a releasing of resistance, towards existence, as all is one and one is all. And all exists here and now.
So to understand its purpose of releasing of resistance. You have to understand what resistance really is.
Let's say you want to understand something, but you don't know it. And so your desire is encompanied by resistance, a self contradictory energetic thought pattern, that limits/diminishes your consciousness/awareness. Like "it is difficult to understand this." You can always feel your degrees of resistance/misalignment/discord, by degrees of negative emotion, and feel your degrees of allowance/alignment/harmony/resonance/blending by degrees of positive emotion.
And then when you release resistance, you say "I simply am. I simply exist. I am existence. I am."
Now here there is less resistance in your consciousness and awareness. And so there would be less negative emotion. And this lower state of resistance, causes your awareness/consciousness to expand more in alignment with all that exists, or SOURCE CONSCIOUSNESS / infinite intelligence / eternal wisdom / unconditional love / infinite allowance, etc.
And as a result you feel better emotionally, the more you consistently hold that vibration consciously expanding your awareness in conscious alignment with the Source of Consciousness itself, Which is consciousness, consciously being aware of your own conscious existence and being.
You thus then expand into unconditional love, not by any deed or action, not resisting any deed or action either. But by simply allowing yourself to be what you truely are. Existence. Unconditional existence, beingness, unconditional love, bliss, etc.
So it is about allowing / resistance , which is indicated by your positive / negative emotions.
For you will never cease to exist. Because you are existence itself, and non existence, by definition, does not exist.
Therefor, you can only temporarily protest your existence "I DONT EXIST!" = negative emotion. For as long as you protest your existence.
Or allow your existence = "I AM" = positive emotion. = Releasing of resistence. And then the allowing of allowance naturally is allowed to be allowed. = Positive emotion.
That's all there is to it, really. But you can really tune into that state of allowing by allowing yourself to be the "I AM" more and more consistently and often and enjoy the positive emotion that must result from doing so, more and more aswell, and reach all the way to unconditional joy / bliss / knowledge / freedom / any and all things you may so desire to be do or have. Once this alignment with Source Consciousness is firmly allowed to be established in your life and allowed to permeate freely and joyfully and naturally and effortlessly and extatically and ever expandingly and blissfully through your evermore natural and effortless being and becoming evermore here and now, where and when all that exists is being and becoming evermore here and now, as all is one and one is all.
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14-06-2021, 03:50 AM
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For me personally it comes natural, after all that is who I AM, I AM that, I cannot be anything else.
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14-06-2021, 05:20 AM
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Originally Posted by psychoslice
For me personally it comes natural, after all that is who I AM, I AM that, I cannot be anything else.
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That is why I AM does not refer to the limitted idea of oneness and endedness. Where one cannot feel the WHOLENESS of their total infinitely ever expanding being and becoming evermore here and now, as all is one and one is all.
In FULL BLOWN REALISATION OF AND ALIGNMENT WITH THE INFINITELY EVER EXPANDING CONSCIOUSNESS OF UNSPEAKABLE RAPTUROUS EXTACIES AND BLISS'.
Unlike anything that it has ever been before, or will be like unto it, ever again, and again and again. Forever and ever more. Blissful.
And I AM referring to that God Source Consciousness realisation. That reference, a reference also unto itself, for us to allow our own personal realisation of this infinite I AM being and becoming as I described above. Also how to allow the personal realisation of it. And we all will realise it, but it's an optional choice for us to realise it sooner if one so wishes. Or just for the sake of contemplation/conversation.
As we are all eternal, so there is never a rush or judgement, if one does or does not do anything. It's also part of the cycle in which we live, where we wait for more global readiness and willingness, to walk the path, once it has already been fully prepaved by others. For more ease of journey. As there is no right or wrong way, no one way, infinite ways. Infinite paths. And all lead back to the same point of ever expanding blissful realisation. And ever expanding eternal home coming.
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14-06-2021, 12:33 PM
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Originally Posted by psychoslice
For me personally it comes natural, after all that is who I AM, I AM that, I cannot be anything else.
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It came very naturally for me as well.
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15-06-2021, 01:09 AM
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It came very naturally for me as well.
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And hence, the "Still Waters".
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15-06-2021, 01:30 AM
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15-06-2021, 12:47 PM
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And hence, the "Still Waters".
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Exactly. The "I AM" served as a gateway to "that which does not even say I AM".
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16-06-2021, 12:30 AM
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Exactly. The "I AM" served as a gateway to "that which does not even say I AM".
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Yes I like that, why carry on about it, when we are there we are there.......in fact we cannot be anywhere else but there, so there.
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16-06-2021, 09:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Honza
Yes I am still struggling with I AM. I have got the principles down and I am now practicing affirmations of I AM. But it does not come easy. There is a lot of resistance. Do you find saying or being I AM easy? Or do you find it difficult?
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I find it easy. I am what I am. I may evolve over time but I am who I am. Once you can identify yourself and have confidence in that it becomes easy.
Yes it is hard, it's hard to get off that path you travelled for so long without knowing "I am" don't be afraid that different path. Let yourself evolve and grow.
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