I appreciate your comments. 🙂

To be honest, there isn’t much that people say that bothers me personally. I speak when I want to, about what I want to and I don’t have too much concern if that bothers other people. Having said that, if a person attempts to emotionally/intellectually manipulate me into certain responses or…[Read more]

But, I cannot control another person’s emotional/intellectual reaction nor will I take…[Read more]

Peace
E

Steve – it is a stage you are experiencing; no more no less. Many people have experienced exactly what you are so eloquently describing. If you continue along the path, things will align…Friends will go and new friends will join you. The feeling of…[Read more]

These are the relationships I want to cultivate in my life. I know I am not yet at a point of being clear enough within myself to achieve this but when the time is right, then it will be.

Thank you for putting something I have been pondering for quite a while into words, Wendy.

E.

Wendy and Pietro – what you say strikes a chord in me. Good encapsulation of the dynamics of relationships!

Personally, I find it uninspiring to only be ever involved with one person. I have no desire to be married or live with anyone (although I live happily with my flatmate!) – but I still very much enjoy the company of men. I…[Read more]

cheers 🙂

sometimes i have gone places and felt not good or sick and so i pull back from it…then try again a little later (as in days or weeks later) and other places have opened up and…[Read more]

Anyway – I move back to silence now.

E.

E.

I have no problem with different views but did you miss the not so subtle reference to walking into someone’s church and screaming there is no God? That isn’t offering a differing opinion in any kind of constructive manner.

It is funny that when someone else is being a jerk – the response is often to look within yourself at your…[Read more]

Where do you go from here? Probably nowhere in the immediate future 🙂 (At least not in any kind of obvious way). I kept it short yesterday as I was ill.

But you have reminded me of something I had heard somewhere re quantum physics etc so I will re-investigate and probably be back with more thoughts at some point in the…[Read more]

Good points, A. Thanks.

Maybe that is why these days I am generally more…[Read more]

I hear what you are saying about the “authority within”.

Emelgee

Just wondering
Emelgee

This is from the back cover of Mantak Chia’s book titled “Golden Elixir Chi Kung” – you may have already picked some of this info up somewhere…

“Techniques for preparing and using the Golden Elixir to achieve optimum health and spiritual vitality

•Includes practical exercises and postures to…[Read more]

Emelgee

Thank you for your explanations.

It does seem to me Intelligence/Digdug really needs to apologise more directly to the people he has offended (or attempted to offend/annoy, more to the point) on this forum.

Still loving my fruit.

Emelgee.

Fruit and stuff 🙂

Emelgee

Your questioning also seems to have taken on a touch of…[Read more]

A certain amount of cynicism towards government isn’t an unnecessarily bad thing – it keeps us thinking and not just blindly accepting what the news people want to feed us.

Emelgee

PS – I am a chick so being “fruity” is allowed.

It seems easier to tell people what we do not like rather than expressing when we do like or enjoy something.

I will see you when you free yourself from your mind.

Emelgee

Nice ideas and nice exchange.

Emelgee

Just having a bit of a chuckle – let the serious conversation go on around me!

I enjoy reading posts and I enjoy contributing but I don’t need to get involved in…[Read more]

A – I feel your judgements of the content of what other people write/type/say, myself included, is where your confusion comes from, that is why you need to *ask* what my intent is rather than letting yourself sense what the intent is. I don’t feel we disagree – our methods of expression differ but…[Read more]

But sometimes determination is called for!

Time spent trying to define the undefinable is an entertainment of our “big brains” and we all suffer from it occassionally 🙂

The issue probably really comes down to what *you* think evil is. That is not to say Snowlion won’t or shouldn’t respond nor is it to say that this conversation has no merit. But, evil, as I have said…[Read more]

The issue of evil for me is a confusing one…at least on a global level…a lot of people do “evil” things believing what they are doing is “good” – a highly subjective judgment call.

I keep it small otherwise I get overwhelmed…I try to act with consciousness and clarity and I find I often have that reciprocated in return,…[Read more]

Fair question and I think something we have all experienced at one point or another.

The posts of Intelligence, Alexander and Treesinger all have some good points and things to bear in mind.

I guess what I have tried is to be conscious of when someone is consciously or maliciously trying to drain my energy. I then simply avoid…[Read more]

Well, you can’t be too unmotivated if you are here and looking forward to the Qi Gong 🙂 Maybe it is good to learn to be more gentle with yourself?

Anyhoo – it would take someone much more learned than I to provide the explanation that you seek but would suggest that, if you were interested in correcting your perceived…[Read more]

Firstly, you don’t bug me ‘cos if you did, I wouldn’t even talk to you to start with.

Secondly, even if you did bug me, why be sorry about it? Not everyone is destined to get along. But, I reiterate, you don’t bug me.

Thirdly, I didn’t think we had an argument. I didn’t miss your point – I completely got your point and I…[Read more]

I meant exactly what I said “Good luck”.

The long version, if you prefer…

I don’t agree with you but I respect your view. I realise nothing I say is doing to dissuade you as you have set your course (there is nothing wrong with that!).…[Read more]

Emelgee

For instance, my grandmother is a Catholic – through and through. She believes Jesus died for all of our sins, goes to chuch as often as she can etc. She and I have often had religious/philosophical discussions and the gist of her belief (within the Catholic religion) is that Jesus…[Read more]

In my daily life I feel I spend a lot of time looking after and encouraging people – both in my work and within my relationships. I spend a lot of time and…[Read more]