How to Live Consciously When You Do Not Even Have Time for Yourself

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AVAlexander VolchekChildren, parenting, and family lifeCHChildrenLove, help, and rescuing othersF/Friend / friendsCouples and healthy relationships

What is said here

• 03:41“In terms of my social circumstances.” “But inside—” “I would go crazy.” Look, that is the thing. But inside, you can. Imagine: she is free of this. Polina is free of it. “Yes.”Freedom · Children
• 07:27“For me, it is life.” “Life.” “It is not that I want something. For me, it is life.” Simply life. And look, you could definitely be taken away for four weeks to a closed…Retreat · Altai
• 09:09“I had bought everything two hours before the flight.” The point is your inner state. You experienced that whole trip as life, all the way to the end, and still do now.Children · Polina
• 16:38You watch all these bloggers talking about something, and you think, “What have you actually done?”Children
• 19:56Polina and I noticed that your car had not been washed. And something else. You think, “How do I deal with all this? Someone called; I have to reply politely to someone else,” and so on.Children
• 21:05“Yes, I can.” “That is all.” “They had better not touch my children.” Of course. But look, I do not mean only because of your children: you could eat someone alive in general.Children
• 22:02“That takes strength too, you know: to open up, stand your ground, and withstand the reaction.” And all around you are people who do not want to perceive who you are. Everyone around you, absolutely everyone.Children · Wife · Mom / mother
• 23:26If you looked at it, you would say, “That is not actually what I meant.” Or, “That is not my style,” for example. And— “People often send me things saying, ‘Oh, I saw this and it is so your style.’”Friend / friends · Freedom
• 25:04“And I was wondering why my ears were burning.” Yes, our whole group talked about you for two weeks, including my third friend. We kept bringing you up. Then we were all in the car.Rimowa · Friend / friends
• 27:18“Yes, lots of articles.” A whole series of videos. I played one straight from the feed for you, about how important our surroundings are. They matter, even if you do not want to understand that…Love

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• 04:06

  Someone might say that I have a social responsibility, but I would like to be free of that social responsibility, because in modern society my children will not die. My children will not die.

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• 04:57

  I keep trying to catch myself: am I making a mistake here? Given the structure of my perception, this is a point where I can be caught.

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• 07:31

  And look, that does not mean you could not be taken away to a closed retreat for four weeks. You absolutely could.

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• 09:18

  You have certain memories you mention about that trip, but even those come more from your personality, the ego of your personality, than from your reality. You could just as easily be put through an even worse trip and remain perfectly calm.

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• 21:24

  You need to balance out that “They had better not touch my children” attitude and recognize that they are people like anyone else.

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• 29:00

  I tell everyone that these are not the highest energies, because from the perspective of spiritual development, there is still a kind of attachment and impairment there.

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• 29:08

  This is a human being's task: the energy of the sun lives within them, the solar energy of Christ, the energy of light. It has settled in their soul, and its beginnings are in their I, their astral system, their etheric world, and their other bodies.

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• 29:57

  In fact, it is everyone, all people. If people look at another person even briefly from the spiritual world, everything disappears. Everything disappears. Everything.

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• 30:34

  So if someone is telling themselves, “I am terribly busy. I have so much to do, and I cannot get out from under it…”

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• 31:12

  That is the beginning of being able to always find a point of support in absolutely anything, from the hardest tasks to the easiest.

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