What Is Real?

[Anonymous]

hope wrote:

I feel so free. I feel as if I am stepping out of a black & white movie into a world of color I never before knew existed.

Welcome! I am so glad you found us. I am glad you are finding the support helpful.

Yep, have you seen PleasantVille? And didn’t someone mention the Matrix. I feel that I am also viewing the world in color for the first time and enjoying thoughts that once scared me. I feel like I am able and free to use my entire brain and not have it be stunted in anyway. That sounds harsh, but that is how I personally feel. That is the way seeing in black and white effected me. I took EVERYTHING literally. I spent an entire weekend in fetal position crying as if someone had died. (That someone was me…, my child like beliefs and faith). I still go in and out of the grieving process. This group has been a tremendous support.

I feel the same way, and so many of the responses resonated with me as if they were my own writings. I don’t have much to add b/c they seemed to cover what I would say.

[Anonymous]

hope wrote:

…The latest mind blowing realization comes on the heels of many others. I want to laugh and cry in the same breath, and sometimes I want to hide under the covers and cry. Mostly though I feel SO happy for this unexpected journey. I haven’t always felt this way and ‘it wasn’t always mine’ (a favorite phrase from the movie, The Book Thief). The ‘it’ I am referring to is this journey. But now it is my journey and I completely own it and am embracing it fully.

I feel so free. I feel as if I am stepping out of a black & white movie into a world of color I never before knew existed.

welcome to the middle way. some say that it is a temporary place, but i have been wayfaring for many years, and i love it.

isaiah 35:8, 10 wrote:

And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein. And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

[Anonymous]

Philosophically speaking the existence of NOTHING can be proven. Therefore arguably nothing is real, and perhaps illusion. That’s the premise of The Matrix and much oriental religion.

[Anonymous]

hope wrote:

I know when I listen to certain music or am out in nature or feel & express love, I am moved to tears and feel a massive tug on my heart strings.

Hi, hope – Glad you’re here, and I just want to say that music has proved to be rock and refuge for me.

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