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To me, happiness is a feeling people get when they believe something good (or positive) has happened in their behalf. It is more often then not mere i...

The example doesn't matter. It holds regardless. Any movement towards the "positive" must have an equal movement back towards the "negative," i.e., th...

Here's one of the great all-time examples of this cycle... ...Monday (sucks), Tuesday (a bit better), Wednesday (hump day), Thursday (it's Friday tomo...

The Grand Illusion. Nobody gets a free pass in this life.

We all arrive and depart this plane (of existence) alone, so you might have something there!

Yeah, I just wrote pretty much the same thing. Life is what it is and will hit all of us with all kinds of stuff. In order to be in position to enjoy ...

Happiness seems to work like any other drug. Although there is nothing wrong with happiness and pleasure, it can never take the place of doing what we...

What communication via language does not? Contentment is being ok with whatever presents in life, and I would agree that this realization should come ...

Your position is quite clear. Hide behind whatever words you wish, but this is exactly how racists try to disguise their hatred. There is no justifica...

Isn't it funny how it's everybody else? I know what racism is when I see it, and it is you.

What an incredibly racist thing to say. Before you start telling other people what the story is, you might want to spend a few more years learning abo...

Not quite. It is as if the question is prompted by an already known (but unaccessible) answer.

On a spiritual level, I would agree, but on an intellectual level, it can get considerably more complicated.

Why do you say that?

When you get down to it, the very nature of a question itself is pretty bizarre. For instance, let's say you Google, "What is the so on and so forth?"...

You have to figure out what makes sense to you. Opinions are a dime a dozen.

The idea of awareness is that the person is going to tell you what they need (even though they cannot see it themselves). As well, I believe the only ...

The best anybody can do for anyone (including oneself) is to achieve a measure of clarity (awareness) so you can not only accurately perceive issues, ...

And that's exactly the problem. We are projecting our stuff instead of seeing what they need (as each individual/situation is unique).

I don't know. Is masturbation having sex with yourself?

I believe people confuse emotion (empathy/sympathy) with compassion. Emotion is 100% about self, compassion (should be) 100% about other. Compassion c...

Please explain further.

Please explain both parts of this statement.

All things are fluid, so just as the question changes its form moment by moment, so must the answer. The key becomes accessing the flow of change...ac...

My suspicion is that we have stored everything we have come into contact with since our inception. Asking the question might be the final conscious ef...

I believe it is a matter of awareness. It also seems reasonable to assume that people who are really good at what they do are able to tap into this st...

I guess that's a possibility but it becomes complicated because answers vary with constantly changing conditions that give rise to questions.

The question still stands, "Is it the answer that precedes the question?" IOW, must one conceptualize the answer before the question can be posited? I...

Let's consider the question, "What's on the other side of the Universe?" An interested observer might say, "There!!, I've got you, there is no way you...

I am not really sure I understand what you mean by that.

No, I mean this in the literal sense. The answer is known before the question is asked.

We? You put this out there. Answer the questions.

Negative impressions? Life is tough, my friend. Who promised you a picnic?

Recovery from what?

We live in a country of adult children, so it's not looking too good in that regard. Parents are what they are, but at some point you have to take res...

Eventually everybody grows-up and gets over it.

Emotion is about self and only serves to confuse interests. Compassion is only about other. It is clarity that will guide you, not emotion (which tend...

Compassion really isn't about feelings or need (although it can be). It's about clarity that brings about wisdom that tells one what (if anything) is ...

How much wood can woodchuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood? :) Perhaps you misunderstood me. I agree with you, and (as well) standby my sugges...

Yeah, you could say that, but true compassion is being able to see the issue for what it actually is and then act in a way where you can effect the mo...

...the manifestation of that wisdom.

I believe the Buddhists got it right when they suggested that compassion and wisdom are intimately intertwined. Without wisdom (the ability to see wit...

I believe that everybody experiences this now and again, but with people so connected to all kinds of outside influences, it is as if they are being c...

I fear if I add anything, I will just be proving my point.

It's just like the answer coming before the question.

I would like to suggest that our best experiences occur when we transcend thinking, that is, when we (essentially) become one with the object of our e...

It's alive! It's alive!

Never and always only work within a specific framework, because things are inconstant flux in the whole. So, if you define your world as having the on...

Think about what you just wrote. Are there things in your life that work for you or do you just change everything all the time for the sake of change?...

That's over with. This is 2021 and you need to move on. There will ALWAYS be people that have advantages. Put you big boy pants on and deal with it.