Some habits and characteristics I used to regard with disgust, fear or similar now feel just fine. Others are simply fading away.
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Which leaves an echoing emptiness behind. A mind that used to feel like a cramped bedroom, now takes on the hollowness of a cathedral.
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Interestingly, feelings now take on a sort of overwhelming intensity, because the physical sensations come unfiltered, in waves. Yet...
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They also feel less "mine". They are simply bodily sensations. Sometimes those sensations are deeply uncomfortable, sometimes they're nice.
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And so they become mere calls to action - input to consider, stimuli to weigh against others - not axioms or truth.
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Going to take a few days to let this all settle, and follow some advice I am good at giving but sometimes poor at taking: keep meditating.
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If you want to get somewhere with something, it's imperative to always, *always* keep practicing, or you get stuck. Take only short breaks.
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Sometimes, by necessity, you need to throw those things away and focus on recovery, but this is a judgement call.
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Particularly when it comes to ventures where success is seductive, people often stop where it "feels good", but is yet unrefined.
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Meditation can sometimes induce days-long bliss states or other cool phenomena, but those inevitably fade leaving you back where you belong.
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And although I'm not scared of getting stuck, I'd much prefer to keep going.