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Enlightenment has nothing to do with other people, if you don’t want it to. It has everything to do with your inner self and your connection with the earth.
You don’t have to have unconditional love for absolutely every person that you come across, it doesn’t hurt if you can honestly do it, but you don’t need it. How close my soul is in touch with the earth is what I believe. The Gaia theory is a fine example of our connection with the earth. Everything is connected in one main stream of life, always rotating always shifting. Meditation, yoga, martial art practices are all form of helping us get back in touch the beat of life that flows through us and into the earth.
The earth has a rhythm that it works at. It speeds up and slows down but it stays at the same consistent tempo. This tempo is the same tempo that runs in our hearts, makes our steps to walk, our fingers to type, every movement for everyday activity. Cars, computers, stress, work , are unnatural. They’re actions that we created to suit our economy. Run different rhythms then nature intended.
Thats why these days people need more meditation, more focus to get back in touch with the earth. Each person is like a hair on an arm coexisting with each other through our roots in the arm. yet still completely independent interms of work and individuality. It helps a lot to get along with each other but its most important to be one with the earth and rhythm of Gaia.

I’m a huge fan of Funny fiction. Christopher Moore, Douglas Adams, Douglas Coupland, are just a few authors I read quite steadily. They just make me laugh all the time and I believe that people need to laugh more often. I believe that enlightenment needs laughter. To have a steadily quiet mind you need to have happiness, which derives from laughter.
Christopher Moores Lamb is one of the funniest books I have ever read. With hidden lessons and witty characters you really can’t ask for much more. As you follow the path of Jesus’ childhood you learn a completely new view point to Christianity helping the none believer not be so dismissive on the topic of religion. But instead learn how to see past the base layer and really learn the meaning behind the teachings of certain parable. Not to mention the hilarious antics of his best friend Biff, a child that even his own mother can’t understand.
This is a must read in my books. I don’t remember the last time I got so many odd looks, as I literally laughed out loud while on the bus or in public. Great read but bad for trying to keep a sane profile in public.