Here I am, all settled in my cocoon where I only see and hear what I want to see and hear. I AM.
I didn’t want to write this tonight, as I’m quite tired and it’s quite late too, but what the heck… It’s already late so it’s not like one hour plus or minus will matter, really.
I live in a cocoon. In my cocoon I only see what I want to see and hear what I want to hear. I had to stress this. I quickly dismiss most things that don’t matter to me and refuse to make compromises, unless the advantages are bigger than the useless information or experiences.
I avoid stupid and useless experiences as much as I can. I don’t really cut deals.
I have stopped debating people a while ago, don’t exactly remember when… Just after I realized there’s no use in fighting windmills and nobody’s actually right.
I love meeting like minded people. However nobody will probably ever be completely like minded so that’s when compromise kicks in. But that’s just advantages law.
Advantages law works everywhere… Even when you help someone who’s helpless. Liberatedself discussed this on his blog at some point. 
On another blog I have found the statement that it is normal to be egotistic. And that it’s only when we’re egotistic that we’re truly altruistic. Now I won’t explain that, nor will I try to find again why it is so. I don’t even know if I believe in it, but I think it’s a good point of view… And even when you give up what you hold dearest for someone, it’s still for you. I believe in that, and can’t really not believe in it.
Now, again, everything is. I’m sort of sticking to that lately. Everything’s quite easy if you see things that way.
Thanks to liberatedself’s shared ideas, I am now one step closer to quitting on my cravings. Or at least on the cravings which hurt me. Now I received the ideas in my own way, but what I got from them is important to me.
Should you not be hurt? Is that the goal? We’re all trying to escape pain at some point. But it’s again in the way you perceive it. However when you start seeing things in this “everything is” sense, even pain starts to fade away, at least mental pain. It is also known that some people hurt themselves in order to draw their mind’s attention to another kind of pain, as we’re on that subject.
See, I recently started craving on something pretty much, and had (still have) all the reasons to do so.
And some of us think cravings have one solution – fulfilling them. But now I have embraced another solution. Just accepting they are.
And when you can’t fulfill them for some reasons, whichever they might be (even it being a craving of a bad -?!- nature), that just sucks. You get a silly feeling in your stomach, can’t think of anything else, and a sad smile or, better yet, a grimace which appears on yer face.
So last night I found myself in such a situation and eventually a thought came to mind, a liberating one.
I’ve been giving lots of thought to what liberatedself had to say and, although I didn’t embrace and understand everything, I did become fond of “EVERYTHING IS”. And it’s not always easy to apply this.
But if you manage to embrace the fact that a situation is or isn’t, it will be much easier to cope with it.
This is especially important for things you cannot control.
Like par example, why does a craving simply HAVE to be fulfilled? Can’t you just accept it as it is? Do you really need a solution? Must it really reach a goal?
In some aspects it can be thought at as when someone bullies you and when you cease to resist, they just get bored and walk away. 
I believe there are things you can control in life. And things which may be just as you want them to be, for a period of time.
I don’t know if this will make any sense, but it’s definitely helped me and I’d like to thank liberatedself for sharing these thoughts with me. I don’t think though that I’ll be asking what books he’s been reading, as I like to keep things simple and short and am more likely to get hit by information, or search for people who can provide sensational views, instead of studying for ages.
One other thought… In life you only do things you want to do. Except for death and illnesses which are eventually imminent. Although you could eventually embrace them too.
So don’t you say I have to do that. You really don’t, you want to.
Even in extraordinary, maybe life and death, situations, you still WANT to stay alive and that’s why you think you HAVE to do some stuff.
You don’t HAVE to do a thing… Nobody’s stopping you from becoming a bum, or dying.
P.S. OOooh, baby do you know what that’s worth? OOooh Heaven is a place on earth… Always by my side, everlasting loveeeeeeeeee… I just had to say it here as my brain’s been obsessing on them ever since I posted them. And I don’t mind. Not one bit. 
You are so beautiful…
Beautifully said, I definitely like what you had to say about cravings that just are. As long as you can see the mechanism in which they work, they really have no bearing in life as a stranglehold for the body. An addiction or a cravings source is thought, thought in which is not truth, something that only survives given that the mind believes itself to be the body. Also given that the craving comes from thought and knowing that thought in general is based on ignorance and second hand information, then why follow such a silly craving if memory dictates the outcome of it, the body suffers.
hmm…I also found the passage about being egoistic particularly interesting as it does make sense in certain context. I understand where its coming from but ego is a general label that is attached to the body-mind in which case, has boundary. You are never fully selfless until concept vanishes completely which is the bodies nature, to be attached to concepts and ideas which is a wonderful process. altruism is the opposite of ego but they do merge into the same as dualism doesn’t actually exist, so disregarding the body-minds ego (which is an illusion to begin with) there is no ego and there is no altruism, but they very much do involve the Absolute, because by focusing on I, (not the individual I, but True Nature) does it become selfless, and that’s what makes it so beautiful.
I thought it was very well put in regards wants and needs, we all believe there is something that needs to be done to ensure ourselves of something. What it comes down to is all needs are really wants, and all wants are illusion. The only reason they exist is for the bodies belief of safety and luxury.
Here is a couple of quotes in which I just recently passed over in a book I’ve been reading for class by Meister Eckhart.
“Whoever desires to be given everything, must first give everything away.”
“Furthermore, we should keep all things only as if they had been merely lent and not given to us, without any sense of possessiveness, whether it be our body or soul, our senses, faculties, worldly goods or honour, friends, relations, house or home or anything whatsoever.”
I know i don’t usually do quotes but who knows what you might get out of them, maybe something that may suit you or allow you to see something within yourself. This body merely expounds the thought that is, but holds no attachment to it.
Btw if ever you wanted to know what books I had read up until this point I could suggest, but I won’t tell you unless you feel you want to read them, like you said sometimes its best to keep it nice and easy. =) Books only lead to bigger concepts that are likely to replace the smaller concepts which doesn’t do anything productive except purify the pre ignorance. Even then ignorance is still there and will go on its own accord when the time is perfect. As long as you abide in the I Am all will be revealed!
Thanks for the thoughts.
@ Wesley – In what way?
@ liberatedself – great quotes and thoughts as usual.