Too often, we let our thoughts dictate who we are. But we are so much more than our thoughts. We have an infinite source of happiness and inner peace within. Connect to your true self, expand your joy, and let go of stress and worry with my weekly Path to Peace newsletter. Join in the discussion about the deep questions on how to live a life of meaning, presence and purpose at www.eastwesticism.org/newsletter
It feels like you're predominantly in your head in this. It lacks balance, soul, fullness, body...feels like isolated, bypass spirituality. It feels like you haven't done any or enough dark work: inner and outer. "The world is illusion; Brahman alone is real; The world is Brahman" comes to mind. The world is illusion *as something separate from Brahman* but the world still is. Our culture induces us to say "I'm glad *_horrible experience_* happened because *_realization/understanding/etc_* came through it. In truth, the horrible experience was horrible *and* the realization/understanding/etc. is fortunate. One does not negate the other. In my sense, Life/Universe/Divine... is doing its thing in us however it's doing it so it feels like it's going to go where it's going no matter what happens. It's going to use everything to its own ends. There's wisdom in your film/piece here and it seems some of it may be from direct seeing. It just doesn't feel fully fleshed out.
I have trouble reconciling this quest for wisdom and the genocide currently happening in Gaza and Darfur, the acceleration of extraction (oil, coal, gas, timber, precious minerals) and poisoning of the earth... Part 3 addressing these issues would be welcome.
Thanks! Edited: I just wanted to add that I wanted to gift this money because my journey with addiction recovery is about to go to the next challenging phase and I am so grateful for all of the wisdom and peace your teachings have brought me.
My mom chose to leave this life when I was 7 years young. I asked why for some time with a deep pain. As a teenager I thanked her for her sacrifice for I would not be who I am today, so connected to the sea of spirit that is We.
severe trauma is the spark that ignites the fire and explosion of our spiritual life...be grateful for your apparent "mis-fortunes"...they can change you...for the better...
@@mustangmikep51once you have turned the mirror around and address the trauma barriers that have created your reality,you will then begin a deep journey you will love. We are all love bliss energy. Just my thoughts.
This video found it's way to me on a day when I needed it most. I'm truly astonished. I have been a practicing witch for many years and somehow I know everything that was said in this video to be true but when you lose someone who you raised, taught right from wrong, fed from a baby, took care of even in their floundering around in their adult life, it's very easy to slip into the questions that every human mind asks. Why him, why now, why, why, why. Today would have been his 51st Birthday and instead of calling him I found this on my screen this morning when I opened my phone and while listening i began to cry. Not sad tears but tears of knowing. Thank you so much for sharing this.
🤍✨Love her song...Joni Mitchell.I had a moment when zi found that song. Todd is so simple but profound. Tyou Todd. From the womb to the tomb & Beyond ✨🤍
Man , when I woke up I had the song in my head spirit guide me ,so I put that song on had just come from being at my boyfriend's house for two days was singing and praising God everything is lovely 🤩🌹😮,well until I knocked on my door my 18 year old son let me in ,we kinda got into it a little,I came home my house was stinky and I have had to not only clean the whole house and work to the fact I have burned the candle at both ends ,so I got angry and I went and calmed down read devotional and had just wrote down now down to the Lord and behold this video came up
16:10. You speak about LONELINESS. YES, there is a difference ! I use the word: SOLO and ONENESS. I can’t feel alone! Thank you for such beautiful TRUTH and GUIDANCE.
I’ve started listening to you sometimes when I am doing my housework you’re in the background I seem to be taking in every single word that you say this world is beautiful. I am grateful that I have found your teachings. They seem to have a calming effect on me which is very similar to my own energy I feel at peace thank you ❤
Wonderful video Todd, I’ve lived with these understandings a long time and I feel as I get older that I’m just coming home and everything makes more sense as I see the falling away of previous understanding. Thank you ❤
Thank You- I truly needed to hear this tonight-all you say I had been aware of one time - many times - but' life got in the way' many times - and now @73 I am in a position to appreciate it all again - you helped to kinda bring me back to what is ...........a moment to moment experience each moment coming with a gift .....each unique gift of that fleeting moment.......🌹♥🌹
I appreciate the gentle,calming words and well articulated wisdom, it’s easy on the ears and heart, and truth resonates deep on the soul level. I listened to your videos for 1.5 hours while walking the dogs, lying on the cool grass under a big oak tree, and watching the huge bright moon, with warmth, blessings and gratitude for slow simplicities. 🙏
Thank you for sharing this truthful wisdom. Slowing down and being still is where this wisdom can be accessed it is not something we believe but what we know as our deepest truth. We are not alone because we are all one.
So beautiful...storytelling,visuals,meaningful lessons and messages...absolutely beautiful...the simplest thinking...being completely still...smelling the coolness of the air around you...seeing the wonder of life through the radiance of sunlight, hearing the sounds of growth and human even animal or plant energy just being what they are is special. Thank you for your honesty
Darkness gives Light a place to shine like the page gives the word a place to express. Foundations are Built upon. Everything, All definded became One created Light divided became Two. Two became One Multiplied became All. We are All One with the Divine Creator. Electromagnetism, Plasma, Energy in-motion resonating at different degree's in perpetual motion. On the road to find out. Thank you Todd.
I believe that concepts beyond the empirically-supported Four Noble Truths constitute creative speculation, which can nonetheless be beneficial for mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being. Upon understanding the Four Noble Truths, individuals can develop their own belief systems, provided they prioritize loving kindness and peace. While some prefer adhering to established teachings or traditions, there's nothing inherently wrong with that approach, as long as it promotes overall wellness.
Thank you, Todd, for your strength of heart and wisdom. Your teachings can be difficult to live out in the midst of some real BS, but the more I soak them in, the more I am able to quickly regain the beautiful power in all that you teach. I appreciate your writing, videos, and healing support.
Thank you for reminding us just simple awareness and embracing the present moment is the key. We all have the ability to do this 🙏 I would also like to thank Macaque Healing for this beautiful musical soundtrack. I just love your music.
I am one with nature and all that gives life. I am not at home with ALL humans. There are too many that have no conscience and will truly NEVER learn from their many mistakes that cause much harm and suffering. It is truth and not a formation, that not all humans are capable of change.
I made my dishes by hand for 18 years. Now i live with family of 5 and i use a dishwasher machine, i think i did my part of being present for 18 years dishing by hand.
Sometimes in life one's bow dangles in one hand unconsciously while the arrows are available in the quiver as the opportunity slips away. I wrote this in my journal in 2018
Todd says, (at the very end of his 'Returning to Oneness' video, 5/6/'24) "As long as we have BREATH we have life." It sounds like he is referring to the physical body's breath. But I'm sure he means the "breath" of all life, the breath of the process of life which never ends.
i am recognizing humanity is slowly ruminating on the value of simple, slow, mindfulness… over rushing, complexities and the dreaded soul sucking, multi-tasking nonsense 😖🥴😳… just being a Being, present and open.. cease all the wars and increase unity and community..
12:47 exactly! howww could there have never been no things?!! no beginning just an eternal, infinite Being-ness.. 🤯☺️☺️.. mental acupuncture(!!😃😃!!)affords the freedom to recline into the Divine and unwrap the present 🎁 , the present is presenting.. ☺️☺️experience it, move through it, experience the next, move through it to beyond, the next and the next, always with the release.. my life’s work!! 🥴😳☺️☺️
how can you truly understand and appreciate what its like to be a part of the LIGHT ...unless you have 1st experienced the DARKNESS? Welcome to planet Earth folks.....learn what you came here to learn....but try having some FUN too! Namaste.
But why sometimes universe is unfair with good people , we used to see evil people money minded , jealous people, flourish among themselves ,,, this all giving me a sense of questioning myself that what I have done wrong that I am not able to get the things done right . Now a days I am getting jealous to see people happy ,isolated ,centred amoung themselves , I feel betrayed by the universe , every time !!! whenever I thought everything gonna be fine. again universe gave me a shock take away my all happiness give me a grief of the lifetime , these things suffocating me .
I feel you on this subject. What I am learning, what I am practicing is LETTING GO of the life I believe I should have. The Universe is ALWAYS giving us it's blessing regardless of how big or small it is. Having everything you wanted isn't a bad or good thing it's what you have this moment.
Maybe that's where you start. You feel as if you are a good person so therefore you deserve a good life like the other good people around you. But it seems that being a "good" person brings about pain and suffering, which is perhaps valid to feel dissalusioned with. Is it not then ok to be a "bad" person perhaps? If you enjoy stealing, but you are reprimanded to feel shame for doing so by even so called "good" people, are you not just following what you deemed good and what makes you feel good, and it is the "others" around you or even society that makes you feel ostracized for being true to your sense of good and your heart? The answers will not come easy, but once you come to understand that actually being good, especially to yourself first and foremost will not outwardly look like good to others, maybe a larger conversation in your soul can be examined about how we define what makes a person "good" in our currently world predicament. Find peace brother whether you understood a word I said or not. So long as this video exists, so too will this comment
I realised that as we go smaller, there are parasites living inside us and the parasites are part of a larger ecosystem, moving out bigger we are larger parasites living off the earth, so it goes to show that our earth is part of a larger solar system which itself is part of a collection of solar systems, each collection of solar systems is part of a larger group of collections of solar systems and it goes on and on inwards and outwards - we don’t know when it stops and if there is a creator who created the creator? Thank you ❤
Too often, we let our thoughts dictate who we are. But we are so much more than our thoughts. We have an infinite source of happiness and inner peace within. Connect to your true self, expand your joy, and let go of stress and worry with my weekly Path to Peace newsletter. Join in the discussion about the deep questions on how to live a life of meaning, presence and purpose at www.eastwesticism.org/newsletter
Amen brother I’m on this path too , to oneness . Coming home .
It feels like you're predominantly in your head in this. It lacks balance, soul, fullness, body...feels like isolated, bypass spirituality. It feels like you haven't done any or enough dark work: inner and outer. "The world is illusion; Brahman alone is real; The world is Brahman" comes to mind. The world is illusion *as something separate from Brahman* but the world still is.
Our culture induces us to say "I'm glad *_horrible experience_* happened because *_realization/understanding/etc_* came through it. In truth, the horrible experience was horrible *and* the realization/understanding/etc. is fortunate. One does not negate the other. In my sense, Life/Universe/Divine... is doing its thing in us however it's doing it so it feels like it's going to go where it's going no matter what happens. It's going to use everything to its own ends.
There's wisdom in your film/piece here and it seems some of it may be from direct seeing. It just doesn't feel fully fleshed out.
I have trouble reconciling this quest for wisdom and the genocide currently happening in Gaza and Darfur, the acceleration of extraction (oil, coal, gas, timber, precious minerals) and poisoning of the earth... Part 3 addressing these issues would be welcome.
Kimoto...I understand him perfectly.
Peace witin leads to peace on 🌎 💯🔥
I just started listening Todd Yesterday and I immediately love the messages, the pace of his teaching is just perfect. Thanks Todd.
Thanks!
Edited: I just wanted to add that I wanted to gift this money because my journey with addiction recovery is about to go to the next challenging phase and I am so grateful for all of the wisdom and peace your teachings have brought me.
Sending light and love. I see you as God sees you, whole and well.
You are not alone...best wishes, my friend❤🙏
Blessings on your journey to recovery 🙏🏿
Mine as well, grateful to hear that
Jesus know your name,He calls You -You are HIs
My mom chose to leave this life when I was 7 years young. I asked why for some time with a deep pain. As a teenager I thanked her for her sacrifice for I would not be who I am today, so connected to the sea of spirit that is We.
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You so beautiful...
severe trauma is the spark that ignites the fire and explosion of our spiritual life...be grateful for your apparent "mis-fortunes"...they can change you...for the better...
@@mustangmikep51once you have turned the mirror around and address the trauma barriers that have created your reality,you will then begin a deep journey you will love. We are all love bliss energy. Just my thoughts.
@@SusanSolt-ys4jl you have some beautiful thoughts susan...!
This video found it's way to me on a day when I needed it most. I'm truly astonished.
I have been a practicing witch for many years and somehow I know everything that was said in this video to be true but when you lose someone who you raised, taught right from wrong, fed from a baby, took care of even in their floundering around in their adult life, it's very easy to slip into the questions that every human mind asks. Why him, why now, why, why, why.
Today would have been his 51st Birthday and instead of calling him I found this on my screen this morning when I opened my phone and while listening i began to cry. Not sad tears but tears of knowing.
Thank you so much for sharing this.
This is quite possibly the most profound & beautiful statement on life I’ve ever heard my friend ❤
Thank you for your message and beautiful words. I share this message with others often.
We are stardust, we are golden
We are billion-year-old carbon
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden 💯❤🩹
Joni❤
🤍✨Love her song...Joni Mitchell.I had a moment when zi found that song. Todd is so simple but profound. Tyou Todd. From the womb to the tomb & Beyond ✨🤍
Thank you Todd for the reminder of what I am. I am what you are. I just need reminding like a child playing life! Peace ✌️
Man , when I woke up I had the song in my head spirit guide me ,so I put that song on had just come from being at my boyfriend's house for two days was singing and praising God everything is lovely 🤩🌹😮,well until I knocked on my door my 18 year old son let me in ,we kinda got into it a little,I came home my house was stinky and I have had to not only clean the whole house and work to the fact I have burned the candle at both ends ,so I got angry and I went and calmed down read devotional and had just wrote down now down to the Lord and behold this video came up
Deserves a million views. 🙏👏❤️
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@@traceyomalley3797 it deserves 8 billion views...one for each human but i understand what you mean :)
Absolutely beautiful 🙏🏻💙 thank you
Beautiful Truth.
16:10. You speak about LONELINESS. YES, there is a difference ! I use the word: SOLO and ONENESS. I can’t feel alone! Thank you for such beautiful TRUTH and GUIDANCE.
Loved every second of this film
The most beautiful thing I ever heard
DEEPLY processing what words were spoken. So enriching and enlighten at the same time. Peace.🙏🏿
I so love and appreciate you Todd.
No words for the truth and the beauty of this video. Thank you for sharing 🙏
Amazing thank you Todd
Love and happiness to All
May we all live in joy and peace xxxx
Tao. Oneness . You. Me. We. All.
I’ve started listening to you sometimes when I am doing my housework you’re in the background I seem to be taking in every single word that you say this world is beautiful. I am grateful that I have found your teachings. They seem to have a calming effect on me which is very similar to my own energy I feel at peace thank you ❤
This is the best film on spirituality. Thank you
i love you brother ❤ ive calmed my mind so much
Very calming, inspiring,mind opening.Thank you.
Wonderful video Todd, I’ve lived with these understandings a long time and I feel as I get older that I’m just coming home and everything makes more sense as I see the falling away of previous understanding. Thank you ❤
so profound, thank you for the reminder of nothing/oneness
with love ❤
Beautiful... thank you 🙏♥️
Thank You- I truly needed to hear this tonight-all you say I had been aware of one time - many times - but' life got in the way' many times - and now @73 I am in a position to appreciate it all again - you helped to kinda bring me back to what is ...........a moment to moment experience each moment coming with a gift .....each unique gift of that fleeting moment.......🌹♥🌹
I appreciate the gentle,calming words and well articulated wisdom, it’s easy on the ears and heart, and truth resonates deep on the soul level. I listened to your videos for 1.5 hours while walking the dogs, lying on the cool grass under a big oak tree, and watching the huge bright moon, with warmth, blessings and gratitude for slow simplicities. 🙏
Ty for letting us witness your ego death and profound words of knowledge
Amazing testimony, thank you
Thank you sir, your words hit substantially during my dark time.
I can’t tell you how much I needed this wisdom
Hearing this was uplifting and I’m on a very similar journey. Thank you for sharing your wisdom. #ReturnToOneness
Thank you for sharing this truthful wisdom. Slowing down and being still is where this wisdom can be accessed it is not something we believe but what we know as our deepest truth. We are not alone because we are all one.
So beautiful...storytelling,visuals,meaningful lessons and messages...absolutely beautiful...the simplest thinking...being completely still...smelling the coolness of the air around you...seeing the wonder of life through the radiance of sunlight, hearing the sounds of growth and human even animal or plant energy just being what they are is special.
Thank you for your honesty
It was no accident I found this when I needed it 🪶
Loved this. So many pointers to what is real. Thank you.
Wow!!!! Just amazing!!! Thank you
thank you Todd, from the heart❤️💫
You are the next Alan watts. Hugs 🫂
Thank you for your continued inspiration. ❤
Thank you so much for your generosity 🙏
Darkness gives Light a place to shine like the page gives the word a place to express. Foundations are Built upon. Everything, All definded became One created Light divided became Two. Two became One Multiplied became All. We are All One with the Divine Creator. Electromagnetism, Plasma, Energy in-motion resonating at different degree's in perpetual motion. On the road to find out. Thank you Todd.
Thanks Todd, for every single word and thought.
Thank you for another beautiful video chalked full of wisdom! Wishing peace for all. 🥰😇
Thank you, Todd.
I know this to be true, I am a seasoned traveller and seeker and like you, I had a realisation in an instant and nothing was the same again.
Love the way you tell our story, go on my friend, we are many to understand the illusion. kisses
Our true home is within us and it's so beautiful ❤
Thank you for this, profoundly beautiful….❤ With deep respect 🙏🏻
There's something magical about every film that you make for us. thank you for creating all these videos and giving us for free. Love from India. 🩷️
The content and views here is mind blowing, completely beautiful
Thank you Todd, got your latest book as well. There's always good vibes in your videos.
So peaceful 😊 and true
Wonderful, thank you. I love all your pictures and videos . They are georgous
Peace and Love Brother
I NEED this reminder!!!! Thank you dear brother.🙏🫠🩵☮️
Outstanding work and teachings, Todd...TY❤🙏
I believe that concepts beyond the empirically-supported Four Noble Truths constitute creative speculation, which can nonetheless be beneficial for mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being. Upon understanding the Four Noble Truths, individuals can develop their own belief systems, provided they prioritize loving kindness and peace. While some prefer adhering to established teachings or traditions, there's nothing inherently wrong with that approach, as long as it promotes overall wellness.
Beautiful!
The world within is a beautiful place to be ❤️ bless you and thank you…
Thanks
Thankyou. I appreciate your voice. I appreciate your message.
Loved your latest doco ❤
May this go viral thankyou my friend 🙏🏻💚
Thank you, Todd, for your strength of heart and wisdom. Your teachings can be difficult to live out in the midst of some real BS, but the more I soak them in, the more I am able to quickly regain the beautiful power in all that you teach.
I appreciate your writing, videos, and healing support.
Thank you❤
Very powerful- thank you 🙏
Feeling blessed 🙏
God bless you, Todd
❤thanks Todd,very deep
It’s awesome 🙏🏼 every word is beautiful ❤I cried when I was listening to this 🥹🥹
Thanks God I found your channel, you are amazing 🙌🏻🤗💝💝
Thank you for reminding us just simple awareness and embracing the present moment is the key. We all have the ability to do this 🙏
I would also like to thank Macaque Healing for this beautiful musical soundtrack. I just love your music.
Thank You!
Beautiful
Thanks Todd ! Im about to jump into a busy day ahead. Your video made it a great day already🤗
I am one with nature and all that gives life. I am not at home with ALL humans. There are too many that have no conscience and will truly NEVER learn from their many mistakes that cause much harm and suffering. It is truth and not a formation, that not all humans are capable of change.
I made my dishes by hand for 18 years. Now i live with family of 5 and i use a dishwasher machine, i think i did my part of being present for 18 years dishing by hand.
Sometimes in life one's bow dangles in one hand unconsciously while the arrows are available in the quiver as the opportunity slips away. I wrote this in my journal in 2018
Thank you!!!!🙃🎶🎶🎶🙏🙏
❤
Thank u Todd 🙏😌🥹
Thank you. Love all.
Very deep. Not sure I understood everything but will watch it again!.
Beautiful, I love your videos. Thank You for sharing them.
One word WOW !!!!
Thanks!
Thank you so much for your generosity 🙏
Love You 🙏🏻 Thanks ❤️
Thankyou beautiful film🙏🏻🌈
Well done! Thx
Todd says, (at the very end of his 'Returning to Oneness' video, 5/6/'24) "As long as we have BREATH we have life." It sounds like he is referring to the physical body's breath. But I'm sure he means the "breath" of all life, the breath of the process of life which never ends.
JOY which is singular-is an inside journey❤🎉😅
another pearl from Perel☺️✨🕊✨🕊✨💙✨🦋✨💙✨🦋☘️☘️☘️
i am recognizing humanity is slowly ruminating on the value of simple, slow, mindfulness… over rushing, complexities and the dreaded soul sucking, multi-tasking nonsense 😖🥴😳… just being a Being, present and open.. cease all the wars and increase unity and community..
12:47 exactly! howww could there have never been no things?!! no beginning just an eternal, infinite Being-ness.. 🤯☺️☺️.. mental acupuncture(!!😃😃!!)affords the freedom to recline into the Divine and unwrap the present 🎁 , the present is presenting.. ☺️☺️experience it, move through it, experience the next, move through it to beyond, the next and the next, always with the release..
my life’s work!! 🥴😳☺️☺️
🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥
how can you truly understand and appreciate what its like to be a part of the LIGHT ...unless you have 1st experienced the DARKNESS? Welcome to planet Earth folks.....learn what you came here to learn....but try having some FUN too! Namaste.
But why sometimes universe is unfair with good people , we used to see evil people money minded , jealous people, flourish among themselves ,,, this all giving me a sense of questioning myself that what I have done wrong that I am not able to get the things done right . Now a days I am getting jealous to see people happy ,isolated ,centred amoung themselves , I feel betrayed by the universe , every time !!! whenever I thought everything gonna be fine. again universe gave me a shock take away my all happiness give me a grief of the lifetime , these things suffocating me .
I feel you on this subject. What I am learning, what I am practicing is LETTING GO of the life I believe I should have. The Universe is ALWAYS giving us it's blessing regardless of how big or small it is.
Having everything you wanted isn't a bad or good thing it's what you have this moment.
See Todd’s film on gratitude. Most helpful. 👍🏻
Maybe that's where you start. You feel as if you are a good person so therefore you deserve a good life like the other good people around you. But it seems that being a "good" person brings about pain and suffering, which is perhaps valid to feel dissalusioned with.
Is it not then ok to be a "bad" person perhaps? If you enjoy stealing, but you are reprimanded to feel shame for doing so by even so called "good" people, are you not just following what you deemed good and what makes you feel good, and it is the "others" around you or even society that makes you feel ostracized for being true to your sense of good and your heart?
The answers will not come easy, but once you come to understand that actually being good, especially to yourself first and foremost will not outwardly look like good to others, maybe a larger conversation in your soul can be examined about how we define what makes a person "good" in our currently world predicament. Find peace brother whether you understood a word I said or not. So long as this video exists, so too will this comment
Great movie
❤❤🙏🙏🙌🙌
I realised that as we go smaller, there are parasites living inside us and the parasites are part of a larger ecosystem, moving out bigger we are larger parasites living off the earth, so it goes to show that our earth is part of a larger solar system which itself is part of a collection of solar systems, each collection of solar systems is part of a larger group of collections of solar systems and it goes on and on inwards and outwards - we don’t know when it stops and if there is a creator who created the creator? Thank you ❤
And the ants don’t know we are watching them - like we don’t know who’s watching us
Love the talk however way too many adds. I understand they need to be there so thats ok too 🙏