*Conscious awareness* is the prior condition in which everything occurs.
Thoughts, judgments, opinions, sensations — literally everything you experience takes place in the space of conscious awareness.
If you can quiet your mind temporarily, to see what happens BEFORE the mind creates a thought, it’s kinda mind blowing to see what’s there. And, in truth, what’s there is actually there all the time! We’re just too busy (thinking, planning, problem-solving, and defending ourselves from imaginary threats and perceived worries) to notice it.
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These kids, and their degenerate music! And it’s always too damn loud!!
Suck it, Arch Bishop.
Jazz & Swing were good then, House & Hip Hop are good now.
It’s every generation’s duty to make music their parents/grandparents don’t understand.
Kids will be on some new shit in the coming decades that I probably won’t like, but I’ll never say it came from Satan.
(unless it sounds like Dub Step)
Some good stories tell.
Some good friends to tell them to. nostr:note1894mtsfv7nr58zlg7e590u4tvezfe98ejxzu6gvgx5l9uhkfrnls004n5c
Yoga daily, good food, good sleep, a few good friends, financial stability, time to contribute meaningfully to a small corner of society, the presence of mind to let go of things and handle inevitable tragedies.
Not much more to life.
Throw back to the time when the CPP banned nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 on the grounds of “enabling public opinions, capable of social mobilization”. Damn right it does. 
ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED
Yes, this is just one of many among our list of complaints, but, like, whatever.
[shrugs in Gen X]
$69,420 incoming, again.
Many such cases.
You don’t decide your parents.
You don’t decide your country.
You don’t decide your cultural/social influences.
You don’t decide your genetic predispositions.
You don’t decide your hormones.
You don’t decide your sexual orientation.
You don’t decide your desires.
You don’t even decide your next thought.
“The world is a stage, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
Enjoy the ride.
Any #JedMcKenna fans here?
You can wonder all you want.
He wasn’t interested.
100%
Few hold the title of “great American novelist” and DFW is one of them.
From “Consider the Lobster” to “Shipping Out” to “Infinite Jest” to “Everything and More, a Compact History of Infinity.
The man was a genius in every sense of the word.
For anyone interested in a collection of his short stories, find “A supposedly fun thing I’ll never do again”
He was an atheist.
So what does Islam have to say about that?
All the people clowning DFW have never read any of his books, and it shows.