I'll probably keep watching stuff like Leo's until I die. Not because it is a crutch, but because life is a process which requires persistent self-correction, and improvement is fulfilling. Self-actualization is a lifestyle.
We are creators with imagination that's why we don't need to go into school or any of that non sense we should be playing with Legos or playing Minecraft at an early age or just build stuff
Watching this in it's entirety for 2:30 hours is better time spent than watching any movie. I have been watching your videos for years and this has to be up there as one of the best pieces of content on the Internet. Leo you have changed the lives of many people aswel as mine! Thank you Leo! 🙌
I spent decades ignoring my own creativity and living in a deep depression. At the age of forty, I woke up to the idea that life was already half over and that I had absolutely nothing to show for it. At the age of forty, I started to take creation seriously. I regret not taking myself and my creative abilities more seriously sooner. Nonetheless, now going on forty-seven, I've written an autobiography, a comic book, and my own every-genre table-top RPG with its own worlds and lore. At current, I am working on my sixth book, a dystopian sci-fi/hi fantasy novel set in a variant of the modern timeline. There is truly no feeling better than engaging a project and seeing it through to completion. I'm still working on the marketing aspect, but it really isn't about the money. It's about the process, the self-discovery that comes through the creation process. One day, after completing one of my books, I thought and wrote this. "Sometimes I think... At what I call this moment in time, I realize, that I am always in motion. After every unbridled thought put to inspiration and called up from the muse has been put onto the page, with every second though abandoned, with every doubt checked, with no taboo held, without filter or restriction of any kind has landed upon that which was once blank, even as every set of words become a sentence, as the sentences form into paragraphs, then chapters, and even as the chapters add up into a finished work, even as I come to that pinnacle, where some unseen force of creativity within has manifested thoughts and feelings and being and doing, and the experience of that journey becomes a book, even in attaining that fleeting moment when it all comes together, I still remember that even that moment, I must let go of, for everything has impermanence. The present is always morphing, always changing, and never a fixed point. The very act becomes a memory, tarnished by the flowing of time over a projected perspective. And so, I live for the experience and pass down the memory as a written work. Even if that work is fiction, it all happened within the theater of my mind, and is to me a memory, as real as any in the material world, along with my visions, dreams, and hopes. A perspective I call me observes this within, identified with it, yet knowing that it too is just a projection of the mind and body, that a human being must be so much more than what any religion, philosophy, or scientific theory can quantify. Something as infinite as a God would be truly endless, and would cover every place, every state of being, every corner of the imagination. It would be so encompassing that absolutely everything would have to be a part of it. That would be us, and it, intermingled inexorably, as one, a unified consciousness taking place over an infinite variety of forms, dancing and wiggling, and vocalizing, and going to and fro, in free play in constantly changing forms for all of eternity without end. I see this in me and I see it in you, with no difference between God and self, for both are just an idea, and we the dreamer are responsible. What a fantastic set of games! Some voluntary and some not, but all being played on every level. What a perfectly fantastic universe! Namaste'. (I bow to the divinity with you)" Nothing has ever come close to this feeling.
Incredible. Thanks for sharing this beautiful expression with us ! Regarding your regret of not starting sooner, in the moment of timelessness that comes with engaging fully in a creative endeavor, there is no longer room for regret. In the midst of infinity/eternity, past regrets become meaningless because not only do you realize that everything led you to where you are now, but you also become so immersed in the beauty of the present experience, that all your focus and attention goes towards loving life as it is. Even if a ninety nine year old man awoke to his true potential only in the moment before death, it would be just as valuable as if he had been open to it since he was a child. Once the profound sublimeness of quality inhabits your being, quantity no longer becomes a relevant factor :)
@@ActualizedOrg Leo can you discuss self image and depresssion and seeing the beauty and divinity in others as well as yourself when somebody might go through things like depression or low self esteem and self worth
This is in my opinion your best work. I was even scared that you announced at the end that this will be your last one. You have no idea how impactful you have been to my spiritual journey, and my life in general, surely the life of millions. I don't even know how to thank you enough, but I'm sure Life is already taking care of rewarding you for the Love you are spreading. Your content is art, timeless and priceless, hope this page stays open forever for lost souls to find retreat in it and find the way to self-actualization.
I used to follow you when I was 12, back then I didn’t understand anything as I had limited knowledge and hadn’t experienced my spiritual awakening yet. But I still followed you even if I didn’t watch your videos. It’s been 10 years and your videos started popping up on my new account and I started watching them again. The content still applies to this day and it’s fascinating how I understand your videos in depth and apply it to my life. Thanks Leo!
Your tears close to the end of the video, represent the hardness of the journey you went through to get where you are! I want to have my tears coming out that way when I see how far I’ve came from where I am now 🙏
29 years old recovering dopamine addict over here, always seeking growth and understanding, this one really hit. Thanks, Leo. Thanks especially for focusing on execution the way you did. Much more emotionally effective than any other self-help content that I can think of.
Recovering dopamine addict? Lmao I hate when people stay stuff like this, it’s a mockery of real hardcore addictions that are unimaginably hard to overcome, and that’s why people don’t take them seriously, because they think it’s no big deal.
@@zendevil6965 I disagree with you. As a recovering addict myself (of real substance abuse) I totally relate to the statement of being a recovering dopamine addict. Cause addiction can be anything from the high that I get from sex to texting with a guy I have a crush on to anything that brings the rush of adrenaline or any external validation or "fill me up" - you should know that as an addict. Addiction is a state of mind. Some call it "disease" which is nothing other than DIS ease... Others call is obsessive compulsive disorder. Its all the same. Some people are addicted to their own image in the mirror. All the same...
I’m only 30 minutes in but I just wanted to say thank you. I saw this on my feed and I really think the universe led me to this video. I’ve been in the same mindset you explained, living completely without consciousness, going through the motions and numbing myself from the pain with food and social media. Getting myself into such a hole that I want to kill myself. This video is my sign not to. Life is truly what you create it to be. Thank you.
Same. He said that part about killing oneself and I flashed back to that moment in my truck, gun loaded and in hand... That was totally my Spirit speaking THROUGH Leo. Spirit spoke to me through every single word this man just said.
How To Fall In Love With Life If you are not falling in love with life, then you are doing it wrong. Personal development can be turned into a grind. If it isn’t improving my life then why am I doing it? Personal development is a different kind of satisfaction than playing video games. - I have to retrain my mindset for a mature sense of what personal development will do for me in my life. - Chasing dopamine hits and pleasure won’t be good long-term. Personal development won’t have that same feeling. - Set the proper expectations. A good life is not a constant never ending dopamine hit treadmill. Outgrow this fantasy. It is unsubstainable strategy. New paradigm for happiness: First pillar: Falling in love with consciousness itself (ultimate pillar) - Consciousness is the entire field of experience. Fall in love with everything. - Appreciate the beauty and magic of consciousness. - Spirit is “ordinary” life. Subpillars: Fall in love with: 1. health 2. growth 3. learning 4. investing in myself 5. consistent execution/discipline 6. creativity Connect to the beauty and wonder of consciousness. This is an attitude for life. Appreciate the beauty of everything around me. Cultivate genuine curiosity. I can meditate and marvel at consciousness, but I can also go deeper and study it and marvel at it in deeper ways. I can use consciousness to be creative and be an artist. Artists see beauty and inspiration and create upon that. Don’t make life mechanical and material. Connect to the soul of life. Creativity is the medium to deepen connection and appreciation to consciousness. Look at my passions in a deep way - Seeing video games as a toy or as a form of art and a world to create like God The deep joys of life is being creative. A lot of people suffer because they never know their full creative potential. People never learn how to be creative. This is partly why they suffer. Creativity is my path to falling in love and honoring consciousness. Creativity is a top value of mine. The typical attitude of life is rat racing around vs. being connected to beauty and creativity. Always be in touch with miracle of life. Listen to Spirit. I get to construct my own life. That is what makes life amazing. I can create and build whatever life I want. Take control. What matters is how I live, the principles I live by and how I honor my life and creative potential. Coasting through life without challenging myself will lead me to be disillusioned and be in the herd, and be petty. Invest in myself and don’t squander that. Greatest challenge is complacency and not living to thrive and challenge myself. Take on challenges and work hard on building something beautiful. Health - Ex. Don’t take donuts from free donuts at work. - There is a joy from renouncing something that is unhealthy and engaging in healthy A healthy mind is work together in holism, whereas an unhealthy mind has fragments and conflicting agendas. Not being healthy in all domains is disrespecting life and God in a way. Health is not just exercise and food, but my communication patterns, how I relate to others, and what I expose my mind to. Develop an attitude of reverence to consciousness. I honor my health and reject bad health to honor my ability to think and be creative, etc. Me choosing unhealth is me losing connection to life. Go to grocery store to get fresh fruit and vegetables instead of free donuts. - Don’t compare raw pleasure - Instead look at larger picture to have sacrifices for executing on healthy activities vs. eating pleasure donut. All parts of my mind need to work together to achieve my long-term visions. Growing/investing in myself: - Reading books - Books won’t give me same immediate gratification as other activities. Invest in the delayed gratification - See the long-term of how the books will help me gain a deeper connection to life. Get excited by anything that grows me a little. How am I going to grow today? Have intentions and visions for where I want to be. Most humans live like animals and don’t have a vision. Learning: The quality of life hinges on my ability to learn. I need to be learning every day. Highest form of learning is face to face with a problem. Direct learning vs. indirect learning Instead of mindlessly watching movies, I can watch things for learning with family instead of netflix. Love of learning makes life meaningful. It is all learning about aspects of consciousness. Undertake deliberate learning process and cultivate love of learning to add significant meaning to life. Execution: - Take action. - Self-esteem = Self-worth + Self-efficacy - Do the tasks I need to do to create the life I envision having. - Ex. Reading books I want to read, meditating every day on time, going to gym everyday, etc. What is awakening if I cannot discipline myself to read 30 minutes a day for a month? There is a deep joy for building discipline. Creativity: To be fulfilled in life, creativity is essential. Everything else is a distraction and petty human bullshit. Get good at identifying petty human bullshit - pop culture - celebrity news - social games - status - money - sex - addiction - escapism - politics - news - video games/media/movie Petty human bullshit is a game I cannot win. Follow the pillars of consciousness, that is a game I can win. I have to play that game consistently. I have to self-motivate. Others will entice me. I have to be assertive and stand up for my goals to build myself up to the most intelligent person. Live by my own code. Petty human bullshit = fools gold I am going for real gold. The real gold = what I sacrifice for and work hard towards by myself, deliberately, and intrinsically motivated. I am addicted to petty human bullshit and robs life of beauty. I sell it off for a cheap quick hit of dopamine. Connect to joy of being disciplined and productive work day working towards my life purpose. Create joy around meditating rigorously Cultivate joy for learning and exercising Cultivate joy for contemplation and solitude. Sit down with a journal and contemplate the next phase of my development for the next few years. - Nothing gets more fulfilling than that. Rewire my entire reward system. The vegetables are the reward system. Train my skills. Keep training. Train like Rocky Balboa. Daily visualization practice. Joy in jumping in cold pool. Being on my edge, facing my fears Joy of perseverance in the face of failure. Don’t give up so soon. Fail and learn the lesson. The winner mindset vs. loser mindset. - Read the books and get the knowledge to overcome failures and setbacks Key lesson: Take on deliberate challenges. Life will challenge me no matter what. Life gets most difficult when I have no intrinsic motivation. Better to choose my challenges than have them choose me. I am not doing because I have to, I am doing it because I want to. - I have to earn that kind of life. If I want something I have to work for it. Be able to say NO! How can I optimize my health in every possible way? Expose myself to more experience. Add massive value to the world. I don’t need to know how, I just need the desire. In a way, I need to “brainwash” myself to unhook myself from dopamine and install healthy habits and principles. Sober = Truth, saying no to toxic stuff. Wasting life is one of the greatest sins. - Spitting in the face of God What am I willing to sacrifice to construct a beautiful life? What kind of life is worth sacrificing for? Principle of Right Action: I know what I need to be doing but I don’t do them. What are my standards? What actions do I take that make me disillusioned with life? What would I have to do convince myself to never take those actions again? Desire implies work and sacrifice. If I don’t do the work and sacrifice then I don’t really desire my desire. Do I want to go through the process of getting what I want? That is the key question. People who have life too easy come out weak in the end. I will really appreciate what I bleed for. It does not matter that I do not know what to do, it matters what I want. Ambition and creativity. If I want something bad enough, I will figure out how to create it through research over time. There are no excuses. Desire comes with discipline. If I want something, I have to put in the time and commitment.
thank you Leo, I found you in college when I was the most disillusioned with life. I can say your videos helped to inspire me. Show me that there’s so much more than what I ever thought there was. I’m in such a better place than I was. I make much healthier decisions now than I did then. I feel that I have pulled myself out of extreme disillusion and toxicity. And this videos timing is perfect with my life. I haven’t seen your videos in a while.. I had been taking lots of action and stopped reading/ watching self help videos for a while. But I just watched this video. And I think it’s time that I really begin the process of falling in love with my life. Thank you so much. ☺️ 💙
Haha well I think so right, if this was Leo - thank you! From the bottom of my being I will be forever grateful for what you do. And if you're looking for donations or business ventures beyond patreon - let me know ;)
Ahh well now I get this I think: I just hit certain buzzwords that are blacklisted right? Anyway, if somebody with answers for me is reading this - I'm curiously awaiting your response :3
I love how you said that doing creative things doesn't have to lead to monetary gain. Creating itself is the gain. When I really immersed myself in this process while writing a novel and seeing it through to the end, I experienced so many 'synchronicities' in my life. Some of them were insane. It was very unusual but satisfying and even though my novel will never get published I feel l gained so much from that experience and described the process as being in communication with my soul? Hard to explain lol
I wish I'd found this channel years ago. What he said about it being orders of magnitude harder to increase your love for life the longer you wait to do it. I'm in my 40's and have resigned myself to the reality that most doors are closed at this point. But I can still focus on the few doors that are still open.
Life has brought me back to your videos, once again. Hitting the nail on the head, every time. Thank you for being you and sharing with the world. I have shared this video with at least 5 friends already. I want everyone to watch this and listen, truly listen. Wake up and start building a real life. I feel your passion and truth. Raw & authentic. I'm done disrespecting my life. Life is amazing, and it's time to stop wasting it. I want to know what I am capable of. I have never fit in and never will. I am my own person and it's my time to thrive. ♥️
I've watched your videos for years Leo, and you have truly helped open my eyes for parts of life I otherwise would have missed. Lately, I have had trouble taking ownership of the life/reality that I have built. I don't feel connected to the consciousness of life and seem to go from day to day depressed. I'm going to rewire this reality thanks to your video. Butterfly effect thanks to your creativity. Much love
There are some videos from you I rewatch continously and rehears, this is one of them, thank you Leo for being such a friend with so many commonalities.
2:06:30 That part! So raw. Absolutely felt that and appreciate that share of emotion. It’s rare, beautiful, and inspiring. I’ve been craving connections with people who can go that deep and also share it. One thing I’ve noticed is a lot less “friends” when I start to avoid toxic hang outs, communications, food, etc. It can feel a bit lonely sometimes but the reward is in knowing I’m choosing to live by my standards and will naturally attract the right people into my life. Thank you so much for this video Leo 🙏
Leo, I just found you and your videos and this is the first video from you I watched. This minute is the most authentic and touching moment because it let me feel all your strugglings on your way and I it let me feel somehow closer to you. Maybe your videos are more for a younger target group, that thinks, that coolness is important. For me , in showing emotions authentically, especially the vulnerable ones, most of the magic happens. Thank you! (I hope my english was good enough to be understood 🙂)
Great video. Great topic. I appreciate you still making these videos over the years. I've been seeing more and more comments with just the wrong perspectives and don't get your vision. Don't worry about them. The ones who sticked with you over the years, get what you mean here when you say to increase love for life. I'm glad you're going back to these type of more practical videos, like it was before back in 2015 and before. I also liked how you went into spirituality too. But the synergy of both is what you're trying to get here, which I absolutely love and appreciate and thank you for. Don't worry about these ppl that came to your videos during the time where they may have interpreted your videos as nihilistic and they weren't nuanced enough. I can just tell by reading their comments that they have no nuance in their thinking and analyzing. In short, keep doing what you're doing bro. I know you probably know that too.
I watched this from beginning to end. Leo. Thank you. When you got emotional at the end, I teared up because that's how you know you've sacrificed and worked hard. People just have no idea. This video was amazing. I thank God for your content. Continue to live your passion Leo.
There's a lot of parts of this video that were kind of "Ahah!" moments for me, because many of the things described are things I used to do in my early 20's when I was genuinely passionate about life but that I stopped doing over the years as my OCD got out of control and I started getting bogged down with social media and compulsive rituals and getting trapped in analysis paralysis. I became so focused on thinking that I had to do things a certain way and that everything I did had to produce some highly specific practical benefit that I forgot how to enjoy learning and personal growth for its own sake.
If one of your purposes is to lend a hand to a heart who fell deeply in the darkness. Then, you did really actualize that purpose. Because I was that heart! And (Showing up your level of consciousness) were the hand that I was able to see and grasp despite of darkness. Your perspective of view means a light to me. You saved my life not only one time. Thank you Leo for being you! And for connecting with us, sharing this beauty of your being. Words are not enough to express my appreciation. 🌻
Hey Leo, Thank you so much for these '''Love'' videos, I have been struggling with my in ability to love people and things around me and have felt lost in what my life is about. But this video especially really helped me remember or awaken to my life purpose and making that happen, I can't thank you enough. I just want you to know that you're helping lots of people who really care about what you have to share. I have somethings like I have found my dream career (music production) which I love (and I am starting a business) but other part of my life are disaster zones to be frank, the ability to love myself and others, and so on....Please keep up the amazing work man...Thanks
In digging to the depths of my soul, I found (like Leo) that we are on earth as creators-I mean this in the broadest sense. When digging deeper (beyond what I thought possible) I discovered that destruction is part of creation. It’s the other side of the coin we call creation-consciousness at its highest level! Leo does amazing work! Sharing our work is what we’re here to do. It’s much appreciated!
Years ago I had gotten really sick and no one could figure out what was wrong with me - my digestive system was messed up bad. I did a 10 day juice fast - around day 5 it became almost a spiritual experience. I woke up - cravings were gone, being a slave to hunger pains was gone. I felt clean and clear minded. The whole experience made me realize, I can do something different in life, and the world can look completely different. It made me start to look at everything in this way. 1:18:55 - the golden statement, right there
„Why valuable things require Development over time“ was the Episode you meant. This is exactly what i needed to hear! Cant Thank enough, you give me LIFE
We have to always enjoy life and the great people we meet. Great things are coming our way and we have to stay encouraged because there will be up and down. Let's stay encouraged! Let's continue to be GREAT!
Im s musician and unlisted my spark. Life put me down and I know it’s been my own fault because I started to complain. The last music that I made didn’t satisfied me because I wanted to be something I’m not. I started to realize how much my heart burns for it. The true beauty of music. I’m so thankful for this video because depression wanted to make its way back. Thank you❤️
Listened intently from beginning to end also very moving to watch a male comfortably with his feelings and emotions I recap your videos before I go to sleep each night Thank You
Dear Leo, thank you from the bottom of my heart for the genuine content you create. It's actively changing the world around me internalizing your teachings. It's also the life advice I never got from my own dad so thank you deeply for all that you do.
I am not an active member of the forum community, I have been following your art work for over 3 years, and I can say that the impact that it has made into my life is behind words . No matter what other people are saying and doing i personally give all my appreciation for your life devotion towards expanding our conciseness absolutely remarkable, thank you very much beautiful pice of me that exists.
Since I was 14 I’ve been watching and writing notes of all your videos, doing the practices you’ve shared and introduced and researched them. to be honest it has helped me so much in not only introspecting my inner world regarding goals, beliefs and striving for growth, self-awareness, and overall becoming a better person, but academics and personal relationships aswell. I mean at a young age I was really struggling, and at 14 I struggled with addiction, neurotic/ major depression, failed school, had horrible relationships with family, had poor esteem, very little awareness, neurotic beliefs, and all these issues in my inner world that projected onto my life. Coming across your videos has probably one of the biggest things I have gratitude for. When I took initiative in healing, keeping the knowledge you shared in notebooks, and consistently following many of the practices you’ve shared, i began healing my inner world which then healed my outer world. I outgrew and drifted from friends who surrounded fun and joy around drugs, were negative energetically and overall were in the same boat as me failing school. After 4 years, I’m graduating and I’ve realized how much I’ve grown content, and passionate for life and living accordingly to my values. I gained interest in exploring so much and naturally met new friends along the way who are similar. I felt fulfilled growing with compassion and gratitude. I’ve been clean, discharged from therapy, no longer on anti-depressants, graduated with honors and awards, got into a university I love, am pursuing the field I’m passionate about this fall semester, grew close with family, and overall became magnetic to people who have great values. Your videos have helped me understand the ways of thinking I needed to take responsibility in shifting my perception and it helped me gain motivation to retake all my classes I failed over the past 4 summers to graduate with all As and honors. I became a kinder person to myself and others. I also grew so motivated and curious in exploring different fields and I discovered what I wanted to pursue in college. Your videos helped me going clean from drugs, I gained love for reading, gained so many opportunities, and the people around me noticed the complete shift in how I responded to and perceived situations in my life. Interviewing for scholarships, doing my college apps, and my current job, I expressed how interpersonal growth and awareness shifted my life, benefited me in all aspects from values, to work ethic, and it really got me to accomplish getting those jobs and getting into those schools. I recently got messages from friends who I won’t be seeing anymore as we are all going off to college telling me how much I left a positive impact in their lives and the values they see in me and it got me thinking like wow, seeing your videos on my explore page and watching them was truly the start of me gaining interest in philosophy, psychology, and spirituality. it all and changed my life for the better. The pandemic began when I was 15, so I viewed it as a perfect opportunity and spent the whole time in lockdown reading books, taking notes on your videos, meditation, and journaling for introspection. I’m glad I came across your videos at a young age and as I’m now 18 I’m just thinking about how happy and grateful how one decision really began my journey with self development and turning my situation around. Everyday I’m running during sunrise, gardening and cooking food for family and neighbors and I feel the joy of being a child again doing these simple things, looking at my surroundings,and just being present. Ultimately I learned emotional self reliance. While I’m still at the beginning of my journey, and have SO much to learn in every aspect of life, even the smallest shift made a huge difference and I appreciate it.
Thank you for this video Leo it came to me at the right time. I was in a spot 2 years back where i needed to make a hard decision. I was stuck in a factory work with no real education. I decisided to do my all to get into a high level university where i could study social sciences because that's really my passion. Understanding people and connections in society. I studied for 2 years while i was working in a factory at the same time just to get into the university. It felt like the stress nealy killed me, i had to study in my free time after nightshifts and such. But i did it i got in. I wanted to believe in myself and invest into my future because i have a vision to help society grow. Month ago i was finally able to quit my shitty job and all the stress hit me. I feel like i nearly lost myself in the grind. I was in so much stress that i couldn't sleep at nights, i started smoking weed and cigarettes everyday just to release some stress. But now is a time for change. I need to get my personal life back on track because i sacrifised so much of it for my future career. For the past week i have meditated alone and cried and cried out all the shit from the past 2 years. I became numb to life but that's not who i really am. I love life. And i wanna fall in love with life more and more everyday and fulfill my dreams. This video really came to me at the right time thank you so much for these teachings.
Lack of action and new experiences that you expose yourself to, what happens is your self esteem spirals way down. You’ll feel weak and powerless to make meaningful changes in your life. . So true
I was able to quit drinking because of your channel. I already wanted to quit but kept making excuses for why I couldn’t. I’m putting my life back on track and I really appreciate your post. Thank you!
I agree it's waste of life to never try for what you really want. Not everything is solved thru forcing and planning however. Tbh the answers just come when in a relaxed state and not in the state of striving to be as perfect as possible before you die lol. You have inherent value regardless of your past, achievements, bank account, skills, looks, etc. When this value is recognized you will naturally connect with every joy and get what you want..
Leo, thank you. This video has helped me grow in my understanding of consciousness and the nature of reality. I really connected to this video when you said “the celery juice is the reward” as I work for a local fresh organic juice company and that example just really resonated with me and my personal experience. Going forward, I’m trying to view the difficult and not immediately rewarding activities as the reward. It takes a lot of work and willpower to avoid doing the activities which are immediately gratifying. But once you start to build momentum and see what you’re capable of, it’s so much easier to keep going.
I've taken a two week break from you Leo, working on my energy levels with some other YT teachers because I was lacking the will to get up and action my ideas. Today I watched this and it brings it all together for me again. Thank you, Leo. It's like I need every new video you make, at the time you release them. It's very interesting, I've seen many people say this. Taking action in my life has been hard for me as I unknowingly left my authority in others. Your videos have helped me take it back. Everything I need I can find within myself. Sending love to all who watch these videos and hear the message.
I’m 20 min in and the love and passion in your voice is so profound I can’t even begin to explain the impact you have on peoples lives of all backgrounds. Thank you so much
Hi Leo, just wanted to send you this message and show my appreciation for the work you've shared with all your followers, including myself. It sounds so cliché but you've given me inspiration and hope to turn my life around when I was at a loss, being alive but not living. I felt as if I was fumbling around in the darkness, trying to make sense of something matterless with only my hands. I've listened to so many spiritual teachers, done research into mental health for years, read countless self-help books, and gone to therapy but nothing "clicked" for me. It felt like everyone was trying to relieve symptoms but never pulling the weed up with its root. Your detailed way of explaining confusing and overwhelming matters have helped me map out the path forward, and home. Im deeply grateful to you. My deepest admiration and love from norway :) Anne Fløtten
Hope you release more “practical” self help videos like this expanding on career, family/relationships, motivation, life purpose, leadership etc. thank you
I’m gonna try to take what I’ve heard here to heart. I’ve learned a lot today between this and your video on life being a lot of mind games. Fascinating stuff and I love how you compare wasting your life as akin to spitting in the face of God, that’s a powerful point that I think everyone should hear
This is one of your very best videos Leo. Your works seems like its taking on yet another level of breakthrough. You're amazing and I am grateful for all you have done. Please keep it up, I can't imagine where you will be in 15 years' time with your awareness, diligence and systemic ingenuity. Thank you Leo!
Thank you Leo. This is the inflorescence of your teachings. It felt like I was in a trip and the spirit was talking to me. It has a life changing quality.
I watched Leo's stuff when I was 16. It set me up well for navigating my life and it felt right. I'm 25 and I've come back to it because I feel like I lost the clarity and assuredness that I'd gained. I'm back on! Ready for this.
I'm 40 mins in this video and need to pause it to just say Many Blessings and Thanks for such enlightening and insightful thoughts. I'm dealing with CF and had some realization how I been treating my body. You're amazing and thank you for not putting ads as well 🙏🌞🌚
I started very early with my personal and spiritual development and it helped me a lot in a sense that I was not making common mistakes most teens and young adults make, I was able to take right decisions that led me to a decent material life. I was always able to see what is good and bad for me, had a lot of patience and knew how to get what I want. But what was always missing and is still missing in my life is that "passion". Being aware makes me not really interested in anything, nothing amazes me, even tho I see beauty everywhere around me but all I want to do is just sit and exist. But still it feels like a fight inside of me, I feel like "i want to do something with my life" but I also feel like "meh"
Wow... as an ultra-fan of Leo for years, this has got to be one of your most POWERFUL videos EVER. Starting from today, I'm gonna audit everything in my life and make sure that I'm spending the vast majority of my energy, time, and focus on falling in love with these life pillars: -- Consciousness (Core Pillar) -- Health -- Growth -- Learning/Investing in yourself -- Consistent Execution -- Creativity Thanks so much man, I can NEVER repay you for all you've done...
1:26:26 Sounds a bit egoic. Perhaps you could not take advange of the girl because she is obviously drinking to that point because there is something in her that is hurting.. so, maybe you could have love and understanding for those parts of her.. especially considering we are all one. ..just a thought!! ♡
if you guys take action, the rewards are so far beyond anything you can imagine i feel so undeserving for the way things are falling into place before my eyes. but again of course its the seeds you sow. ive seen results and it makes me want to cry, leo just gave me a little push, you guys can live an outstanding life too! may you guys struggle well! :D
Hey Leo, I have been in the situation with a drunk girl that you describe. My reaction was the same as yours. I didnt take advantage of the situation when she was really drunk because I couldnt respect her for it.
I’ve been watching this channel since I was 21 about 5 years ago and I had a few awakenings and I was really motivated for enlightenment being much younger and fresh to spirituality but I wasn’t focused on my basics and felt that I was really mentally masturbating and still immature for practical life so after a few years of basic survival I see that I still have practical work to do and even realized I was functioning through depression and anxiety. I recently decided to live a very disciplined and healthy lifestyle as that is my only way to get out of this dark place and heal. Just after a couple of days of executing I am feeling exactly what Leo is talking about with the joys of doing the right things. And ever since years ago with the video about using Death as motivation, it’s always stuck with me but even more now; every night before going to bed it’s so heavy on my heart that this life IS short and it’s a miracle and a gift to even be here and to experience consciousness and that I cannot waste another day. I am nowhere near where I want to be but I wouldn’t even know what I know if it weren’t for this channel, probably the most profound and inspiring information that has changed my life. I cannot thank you enough for the genius work you’ve done and the lives you’ve transformed!!! ❤️
at 1:34, Leo says he could shoot heroin and not get addicted. If a person is experiencing constant, nagging, intense pain, as is the case for people with extreme auto accidents, gunshot wounds, head wounds, major birth defects, how can we expect them not to chase pain relief in opioids?
First I heard about spirituality from you. After 3 years I have listened and read many spiritual books, have not missed one day of meditation. I am back watching you after some time and nothing is more inspiring and meaningful than your videos. Appreciate you so much, thank you. Lazy to write this comments. Should write it on every video of yours :D You deserve this man
Learning has lead the way through my intire life. From reading books, to higher education, to simply watching this video my thirst for knowledge has guided my life. I just want to know. And in knowing I have lost my love of artistic endeavors. I need to get back to basics. I need to get back to what I have always known intuitively. I want to write more, want to say more, I want to create more. I have been such a sponge absorbing everything I could that I have forgotten to also excrete my talents unto this world.
Ecclesiastes 7:16-18 NIV “Do not be overrighteous, neither be overwise- why destroy yourself? Do not be overwicked, and do not be a fool- why die before your time? It is good to grasp the one and not let go of the other. Whoever fears God will avoid all extremes.”
I want to live this life that I know is possible for me. I sense that in the deepest section of my heart. It helps to tap into this feeling by listening to you, Leo ❤
Leo I just got to the end of your video and I just want to say that you are very inspiring. Thank you for your service. Thank you for being here. I appreciate you very much. ❤️
Thank you for everything leo. You really helped me to turn my life around throughout the years. After some really hard years, I'm falling in love with life once again. In a much more stable way, caus now I realise how it goes, how it works & how it doesn't ☮️❤️🔥
Half way through. This is awesome. You feel like a modern day Alan watts with practical tools and concepts to light a fire in people. Love it. Grateful.
This video made me realize that the number 1 thing I need in my life is Order. My emotions run rampant. Every thing affects me, what people say, how they look at me, why my parents said this, why they did that. This made me realize that I was giving away my control and making myself a victim of my own life. And as an endorsement, my go-to reasoning was that no one is as spiritually advanced as I am, so by default I dont have to change or do anything, that I’m just in a shitty situation. This video is the anti-thesis of that reasoning. That reasoning made me a prisoner in my own body, and made it so I just go through the motions of life hoping that things will work out one day. Such an ass backwards way to live. Thanks for the insight Leo 🙏🏽
Perhaps the most obvious thing that can be said but almost often goes unrecognized is that there is only one swing at this business of Life. Don Juan said death was his constant companion and lives just over his shoulder. He laughed about it.
You spent years teaching me about love, that’s Love.
We love you Leo!
@@colleyrollmann 🙂
Leo, please add subtitles to your videos in all languages of the world. People need your knowledge.peace.love and respect 🙏🏼
Agreed.
thank yourself You spend years learning from him about love . That's love
I'll probably keep watching stuff like Leo's until I die. Not because it is a crutch, but because life is a process which requires persistent self-correction, and improvement is fulfilling. Self-actualization is a lifestyle.
il watch it so i can feel better when i get an existencial crisis every year
this is a true statement
We are creators with imagination that's why we don't need to go into school or any of that non sense we should be playing with Legos or playing Minecraft at an early age or just build stuff
Watching this in it's entirety for 2:30 hours is better time spent than watching any movie. I have been watching your videos for years and this has to be up there as one of the best pieces of content on the Internet. Leo you have changed the lives of many people aswel as mine! Thank you Leo! 🙌
Ya’ll hang onto the end this dude had me tearing up. Leo is so deep. Thank you so much for your help. God bless
This video turned my life in an entirely different direction.
Thank you Leo.
Same here! So many fundamental questions to contemplate!
I spent decades ignoring my own creativity and living in a deep depression. At the age of forty, I woke up to the idea that life was already half over and that I had absolutely nothing to show for it. At the age of forty, I started to take creation seriously. I regret not taking myself and my creative abilities more seriously sooner. Nonetheless, now going on forty-seven, I've written an autobiography, a comic book, and my own every-genre table-top RPG with its own worlds and lore. At current, I am working on my sixth book, a dystopian sci-fi/hi fantasy novel set in a variant of the modern timeline.
There is truly no feeling better than engaging a project and seeing it through to completion. I'm still working on the marketing aspect, but it really isn't about the money. It's about the process, the self-discovery that comes through the creation process. One day, after completing one of my books, I thought and wrote this.
"Sometimes I think...
At what I call this moment in time, I realize, that I am always in motion. After every unbridled thought put to inspiration and called up from the muse has been put onto the page, with every second though abandoned, with every doubt checked, with no taboo held, without filter or restriction of any kind has landed upon that which was once blank, even as every set of words become a sentence, as the sentences form into paragraphs, then chapters, and even as the chapters add up into a finished work, even as I come to that pinnacle, where some unseen force of creativity within has manifested thoughts and feelings and being and doing, and the experience of that journey becomes a book, even in attaining that fleeting moment when it all comes together, I still remember that even that moment, I must let go of, for everything has impermanence. The present is always morphing, always changing, and never a fixed point. The very act becomes a memory, tarnished by the flowing of time over a projected perspective. And so, I live for the experience and pass down the memory as a written work. Even if that work is fiction, it all happened within the theater of my mind, and is to me a memory, as real as any in the material world, along with my visions, dreams, and hopes. A perspective I call me observes this within, identified with it, yet knowing that it too is just a projection of the mind and body, that a human being must be so much more than what any religion, philosophy, or scientific theory can quantify. Something as infinite as a God would be truly endless, and would cover every place, every state of being, every corner of the imagination. It would be so encompassing that absolutely everything would have to be a part of it. That would be us, and it, intermingled inexorably, as one, a unified consciousness taking place over an infinite variety of forms, dancing and wiggling, and vocalizing, and going to and fro, in free play in constantly changing forms for all of eternity without end. I see this in me and I see it in you, with no difference between God and self, for both are just an idea, and we the dreamer are responsible. What a fantastic set of games! Some voluntary and some not, but all being played on every level. What a perfectly fantastic universe! Namaste'. (I bow to the divinity with you)"
Nothing has ever come close to this feeling.
Good for you man! Better late than never.
Incredible. Thanks for sharing this beautiful expression with us ! Regarding your regret of not starting sooner, in the moment of timelessness that comes with engaging fully in a creative endeavor, there is no longer room for regret. In the midst of infinity/eternity, past regrets become meaningless because not only do you realize that everything led you to where you are now, but you also become so immersed in the beauty of the present experience, that all your focus and attention goes towards loving life as it is. Even if a ninety nine year old man awoke to his true potential only in the moment before death, it would be just as valuable as if he had been open to it since he was a child. Once the profound sublimeness of quality inhabits your being, quantity no longer becomes a relevant factor :)
@@ActualizedOrg Leo can you discuss self image and depresssion and seeing the beauty and divinity in others as well as yourself when somebody might go through things like depression or low self esteem and self worth
Incredible!
@@nicoavella3843 I needed to read this - thank you
This is in my opinion your best work. I was even scared that you announced at the end that this will be your last one.
You have no idea how impactful you have been to my spiritual journey, and my life in general, surely the life of millions.
I don't even know how to thank you enough, but I'm sure Life is already taking care of rewarding you for the Love you are spreading.
Your content is art, timeless and priceless, hope this page stays open forever for lost souls to find retreat in it and find the way to self-actualization.
You're too kind. Thanks
timeless and priceless* is what you meant (or invaluable)
@@mistyforest1521 thanks that's obviously what I meant
Thank you so much
I've been sober for nine months. I'm finally beginning to fall back in love with life again. I really needed to hear this. Thanks, Leo!
Good job 😊❤️👏
I used to follow you when I was 12, back then I didn’t understand anything as I had limited knowledge and hadn’t experienced my spiritual awakening yet. But I still followed you even if I didn’t watch your videos. It’s been 10 years and your videos started popping up on my new account and I started watching them again. The content still applies to this day and it’s fascinating how I understand your videos in depth and apply it to my life. Thanks Leo!
Heyy what’s ya ig?
Same I did that at 13 after my first acid experience, now I’ve moved on to my own mystical work
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So you are an awakened one?
He is a con artist and textbook cult leader , he is correct about everything and everyone is wrong moron should be in prison
It’s not when I have everything I want then I will love life, it’s when I love life that everything I want will come to me
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I more mean if you love where you are first, you will change easier
Your tears close to the end of the video, represent the hardness of the journey you went through to get where you are! I want to have my tears coming out that way when I see how far I’ve came from where I am now 🙏
29 years old recovering dopamine addict over here, always seeking growth and understanding, this one really hit. Thanks, Leo. Thanks especially for focusing on execution the way you did. Much more emotionally effective than any other self-help content that I can think of.
Recovering dopamine addict? Lmao I hate when people stay stuff like this, it’s a mockery of real hardcore addictions that are unimaginably hard to overcome, and that’s why people don’t take them seriously, because they think it’s no big deal.
@@zendevil6965 I disagree with you. As a recovering addict myself (of real substance abuse) I totally relate to the statement of being a recovering dopamine addict. Cause addiction can be anything from the high that I get from sex to texting with a guy I have a crush on to anything that brings the rush of adrenaline or any external validation or "fill me up" - you should know that as an addict. Addiction is a state of mind. Some call it "disease" which is nothing other than DIS ease... Others call is obsessive compulsive disorder. Its all the same. Some people are addicted to their own image in the mirror. All the same...
I’m only 30 minutes in but I just wanted to say thank you. I saw this on my feed and I really think the universe led me to this video. I’ve been in the same mindset you explained, living completely without consciousness, going through the motions and numbing myself from the pain with food and social media. Getting myself into such a hole that I want to kill myself. This video is my sign not to. Life is truly what you create it to be. Thank you.
Me too
Same. He said that part about killing oneself and I flashed back to that moment in my truck, gun loaded and in hand... That was totally my Spirit speaking THROUGH Leo. Spirit spoke to me through every single word this man just said.
How To Fall In Love With Life
If you are not falling in love with life, then you are doing it wrong.
Personal development can be turned into a grind.
If it isn’t improving my life then why am I doing it?
Personal development is a different kind of satisfaction than playing video games.
- I have to retrain my mindset for a mature sense of what personal development will do for me in my life.
- Chasing dopamine hits and pleasure won’t be good long-term. Personal development won’t have that same feeling.
- Set the proper expectations.
A good life is not a constant never ending dopamine hit treadmill. Outgrow this fantasy. It is unsubstainable strategy.
New paradigm for happiness:
First pillar: Falling in love with consciousness itself (ultimate pillar)
- Consciousness is the entire field of experience. Fall in love with everything.
- Appreciate the beauty and magic of consciousness.
- Spirit is “ordinary” life.
Subpillars: Fall in love with:
1. health
2. growth
3. learning
4. investing in myself
5. consistent execution/discipline
6. creativity
Connect to the beauty and wonder of consciousness.
This is an attitude for life. Appreciate the beauty of everything around me. Cultivate genuine curiosity.
I can meditate and marvel at consciousness, but I can also go deeper and study it and marvel at it in deeper ways.
I can use consciousness to be creative and be an artist.
Artists see beauty and inspiration and create upon that.
Don’t make life mechanical and material. Connect to the soul of life.
Creativity is the medium to deepen connection and appreciation to consciousness.
Look at my passions in a deep way
- Seeing video games as a toy or as a form of art and a world to create like God
The deep joys of life is being creative.
A lot of people suffer because they never know their full creative potential.
People never learn how to be creative. This is partly why they suffer.
Creativity is my path to falling in love and honoring consciousness. Creativity is a top value of mine.
The typical attitude of life is rat racing around vs. being connected to beauty and creativity.
Always be in touch with miracle of life. Listen to Spirit.
I get to construct my own life. That is what makes life amazing.
I can create and build whatever life I want. Take control.
What matters is how I live, the principles I live by and how I honor my life and creative potential.
Coasting through life without challenging myself will lead me to be disillusioned and be in the herd, and be petty.
Invest in myself and don’t squander that.
Greatest challenge is complacency and not living to thrive and challenge myself.
Take on challenges and work hard on building something beautiful.
Health - Ex. Don’t take donuts from free donuts at work.
- There is a joy from renouncing something that is unhealthy and engaging in healthy
A healthy mind is work together in holism, whereas an unhealthy mind has fragments and conflicting agendas.
Not being healthy in all domains is disrespecting life and God in a way.
Health is not just exercise and food, but my communication patterns, how I relate to others, and what I expose my mind to.
Develop an attitude of reverence to consciousness.
I honor my health and reject bad health to honor my ability to think and be creative, etc.
Me choosing unhealth is me losing connection to life.
Go to grocery store to get fresh fruit and vegetables instead of free donuts.
- Don’t compare raw pleasure
- Instead look at larger picture to have sacrifices for executing on healthy activities vs. eating pleasure donut.
All parts of my mind need to work together to achieve my long-term visions.
Growing/investing in myself:
- Reading books
- Books won’t give me same immediate gratification as other activities. Invest in the delayed gratification
- See the long-term of how the books will help me gain a deeper connection to life.
Get excited by anything that grows me a little.
How am I going to grow today?
Have intentions and visions for where I want to be.
Most humans live like animals and don’t have a vision.
Learning:
The quality of life hinges on my ability to learn.
I need to be learning every day.
Highest form of learning is face to face with a problem. Direct learning vs. indirect learning
Instead of mindlessly watching movies, I can watch things for learning with family instead of netflix.
Love of learning makes life meaningful. It is all learning about aspects of consciousness.
Undertake deliberate learning process and cultivate love of learning to add significant meaning to life.
Execution:
- Take action.
- Self-esteem = Self-worth + Self-efficacy
- Do the tasks I need to do to create the life I envision having.
- Ex. Reading books I want to read, meditating every day on time, going to gym everyday, etc.
What is awakening if I cannot discipline myself to read 30 minutes a day for a month?
There is a deep joy for building discipline.
Creativity:
To be fulfilled in life, creativity is essential.
Everything else is a distraction and petty human bullshit.
Get good at identifying petty human bullshit
- pop culture
- celebrity news
- social games
- status
- money
- sex
- addiction
- escapism
- politics
- news
- video games/media/movie
Petty human bullshit is a game I cannot win.
Follow the pillars of consciousness, that is a game I can win. I have to play that game consistently. I have to self-motivate.
Others will entice me. I have to be assertive and stand up for my goals to build myself up to the most intelligent person. Live by my own code.
Petty human bullshit = fools gold
I am going for real gold. The real gold = what I sacrifice for and work hard towards by myself, deliberately, and intrinsically motivated.
I am addicted to petty human bullshit and robs life of beauty. I sell it off for a cheap quick hit of dopamine.
Connect to joy of being disciplined and productive work day working towards my life purpose.
Create joy around meditating rigorously
Cultivate joy for learning and exercising
Cultivate joy for contemplation and solitude.
Sit down with a journal and contemplate the next phase of my development for the next few years.
- Nothing gets more fulfilling than that.
Rewire my entire reward system. The vegetables are the reward system.
Train my skills.
Keep training. Train like Rocky Balboa.
Daily visualization practice.
Joy in jumping in cold pool.
Being on my edge, facing my fears
Joy of perseverance in the face of failure.
Don’t give up so soon. Fail and learn the lesson.
The winner mindset vs. loser mindset.
- Read the books and get the knowledge to overcome failures and setbacks
Key lesson: Take on deliberate challenges. Life will challenge me no matter what.
Life gets most difficult when I have no intrinsic motivation.
Better to choose my challenges than have them choose me.
I am not doing because I have to, I am doing it because I want to.
- I have to earn that kind of life.
If I want something I have to work for it.
Be able to say NO!
How can I optimize my health in every possible way?
Expose myself to more experience.
Add massive value to the world.
I don’t need to know how, I just need the desire.
In a way, I need to “brainwash” myself to unhook myself from dopamine and install healthy habits and principles.
Sober = Truth, saying no to toxic stuff.
Wasting life is one of the greatest sins.
- Spitting in the face of God
What am I willing to sacrifice to construct a beautiful life?
What kind of life is worth sacrificing for?
Principle of Right Action:
I know what I need to be doing but I don’t do them.
What are my standards?
What actions do I take that make me disillusioned with life?
What would I have to do convince myself to never take those actions again?
Desire implies work and sacrifice. If I don’t do the work and sacrifice then I don’t really desire my desire.
Do I want to go through the process of getting what I want? That is the key question.
People who have life too easy come out weak in the end.
I will really appreciate what I bleed for.
It does not matter that I do not know what to do, it matters what I want. Ambition and creativity.
If I want something bad enough, I will figure out how to create it through research over time. There are no excuses.
Desire comes with discipline. If I want something, I have to put in the time and commitment.
This was the longest comment i ever seen on youtube. Did not know that comments could be so long.
Thank you man
I love this after gotten out from 3 years relationship. Time to focus on myself and appreciate life.
Even when you thought you werw not focusing on yourself you have been and always will only be focusing on yourself.
Just got out of a 1.5 years relationship. Time for us to grow brother
thank you Leo, I found you in college when I was the most disillusioned with life. I can say your videos helped to inspire me. Show me that there’s so much more than what I ever thought there was. I’m in such a better place than I was. I make much healthier decisions now than I did then. I feel that I have pulled myself out of extreme disillusion and toxicity. And this videos timing is perfect with my life. I haven’t seen your videos in a while.. I had been taking lots of action and stopped reading/ watching self help videos for a while. But I just watched this video. And I think it’s time that I really begin the process of falling in love with my life. Thank you so much. ☺️ 💙
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Haha well I think so right, if this was Leo - thank you! From the bottom of my being I will be forever grateful for what you do. And if you're looking for donations or business ventures beyond patreon - let me know ;)
Ahh well now I get this I think: I just hit certain buzzwords that are blacklisted right? Anyway, if somebody with answers for me is reading this - I'm curiously awaiting your response :3
I love how you said that doing creative things doesn't have to lead to monetary gain. Creating itself is the gain. When I really immersed myself in this process while writing a novel and seeing it through to the end, I experienced so many 'synchronicities' in my life. Some of them were insane. It was very unusual but satisfying and even though my novel will never get published I feel l gained so much from that experience and described the process as being in communication with my soul? Hard to explain lol
Drop the name of your book though, I’m intrigued 👀
I wish I'd found this channel years ago. What he said about it being orders of magnitude harder to increase your love for life the longer you wait to do it. I'm in my 40's and have resigned myself to the reality that most doors are closed at this point. But I can still focus on the few doors that are still open.
Life has brought me back to your videos, once again. Hitting the nail on the head, every time. Thank you for being you and sharing with the world.
I have shared this video with at least 5 friends already. I want everyone to watch this and listen, truly listen. Wake up and start building a real life.
I feel your passion and truth. Raw & authentic.
I'm done disrespecting my life. Life is amazing, and it's time to stop wasting it. I want to know what I am capable of. I have never fit in and never will. I am my own person and it's my time to thrive. ♥️
Thank you Leo😍🙏 those tears in the end were felt deeply and you are a gift to humanity❤❤
Love is the fundamental nature of the world. From love, we came and to it we will return
I've watched your videos for years Leo, and you have truly helped open my eyes for parts of life I otherwise would have missed. Lately, I have had trouble taking ownership of the life/reality that I have built. I don't feel connected to the consciousness of life and seem to go from day to day depressed. I'm going to rewire this reality thanks to your video. Butterfly effect thanks to your creativity. Much love
2:06:08 I got emotional just by watching his emotions. Cant imagine what he has gone thru. Its like he was just lost for a second
I could fall asleep listening to you. What you're saying is beyond profound, and yet you're able to articulate it in such a "flow" state. Just wow.
I love Leo. He has changed my life. I have been in deep depression due to series of traumas. His videos and techniques have pulled me out of it.
"It's like you're studying God, that's really what drives the scientist" - Leo Gura
There are some videos from you I rewatch continously and rehears, this is one of them, thank you Leo for being such a friend with so many commonalities.
2:06:30 That part! So raw. Absolutely felt that and appreciate that share of emotion. It’s rare, beautiful, and inspiring. I’ve been craving connections with people who can go that deep and also share it. One thing I’ve noticed is a lot less “friends” when I start to avoid toxic hang outs, communications, food, etc. It can feel a bit lonely sometimes but the reward is in knowing I’m choosing to live by my standards and will naturally attract the right people into my life. Thank you so much for this video Leo 🙏
Eagles soar alone while pidgeons scurry around in hordes in the dirt ;)
Leo, I just found you and your videos and this is the first video from you I watched. This minute is the most authentic and touching moment because it let me feel all your strugglings on your way and I it let me feel somehow closer to you. Maybe your videos are more for a younger target group, that thinks, that coolness is important. For me , in showing emotions authentically, especially the vulnerable ones, most of the magic happens. Thank you! (I hope my english was good enough to be understood 🙂)
Great video. Great topic. I appreciate you still making these videos over the years. I've been seeing more and more comments with just the wrong perspectives and don't get your vision. Don't worry about them. The ones who sticked with you over the years, get what you mean here when you say to increase love for life. I'm glad you're going back to these type of more practical videos, like it was before back in 2015 and before. I also liked how you went into spirituality too. But the synergy of both is what you're trying to get here, which I absolutely love and appreciate and thank you for. Don't worry about these ppl that came to your videos during the time where they may have interpreted your videos as nihilistic and they weren't nuanced enough. I can just tell by reading their comments that they have no nuance in their thinking and analyzing. In short, keep doing what you're doing bro. I know you probably know that too.
Great comment! Thank you representing the mature and well-educated portion of Leo’s audience.
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I’ve been wanting to comment something like on Leo’s videos for awhile. You articulated my feelings perfectly. +1 to this content
I watched this from beginning to end. Leo. Thank you. When you got emotional at the end, I teared up because that's how you know you've sacrificed and worked hard. People just have no idea. This video was amazing. I thank God for your content. Continue to live your passion Leo.
I cried too
There's a lot of parts of this video that were kind of "Ahah!" moments for me, because many of the things described are things I used to do in my early 20's when I was genuinely passionate about life but that I stopped doing over the years as my OCD got out of control and I started getting bogged down with social media and compulsive rituals and getting trapped in analysis paralysis. I became so focused on thinking that I had to do things a certain way and that everything I did had to produce some highly specific practical benefit that I forgot how to enjoy learning and personal growth for its own sake.
I can't thank you enough for all content you created, it changed my life in every way thank you so much
Once again, you’re the fucking man, Leo. I thank you on the deepest level for doing what you do. Much love.
If one of your purposes is to lend a hand to a heart who fell deeply in the darkness.
Then, you did really actualize that purpose. Because I was that heart! And (Showing up your level of consciousness) were the hand that I was able to see and grasp despite of darkness. Your perspective of view means a light to me.
You saved my life not only one time.
Thank you Leo for being you! And for connecting with us, sharing this beauty of your being.
Words are not enough to express my appreciation. 🌻
This is literally free. Huhuhu i love u leo i promise i wont be depressed again ❤️
Hey Leo, Thank you so much for these '''Love'' videos, I have been struggling with my in ability to love people and things around me and have felt lost in what my life is about. But this video especially really helped me remember or awaken to my life purpose and making that happen, I can't thank you enough. I just want you to know that you're helping lots of people who really care about what you have to share. I have somethings like I have found my dream career (music production) which I love (and I am starting a business) but other part of my life are disaster zones to be frank, the ability to love myself and others, and so on....Please keep up the amazing work man...Thanks
In digging to the depths of my soul, I found (like Leo) that we are on earth as creators-I mean this in the broadest sense. When digging deeper (beyond what I thought possible) I discovered that destruction is part of creation. It’s the other side of the coin we call creation-consciousness at its highest level! Leo does amazing work! Sharing our work is what we’re here to do. It’s much appreciated!
"The answers are inside you...You are waiting for me to spoon feed you this shit." 🤣
Years ago I had gotten really sick and no one could figure out what was wrong with me - my digestive system was messed up bad.
I did a 10 day juice fast - around day 5 it became almost a spiritual experience. I woke up - cravings were gone, being a slave to hunger pains was gone. I felt clean and clear minded.
The whole experience made me realize, I can do something different in life, and the world can look completely different. It made me start to look at everything in this way.
1:18:55 - the golden statement, right there
Can you share what kind of juices you had daily
„Why valuable things require Development over time“ was the Episode you meant. This is exactly what i needed to hear! Cant Thank enough, you give me LIFE
We have to always enjoy life and the great people we meet. Great things are coming our way and we have to stay encouraged because there will be up and down.
Let's stay encouraged!
Let's continue to be GREAT!
Im s musician and unlisted my spark. Life put me down and I know it’s been my own fault because I started to complain. The last music that I made didn’t satisfied me because I wanted to be something I’m not. I started to realize how much my heart burns for it. The true beauty of music. I’m so thankful for this video because depression wanted to make its way back. Thank you❤️
Listened intently from beginning to end also very moving to watch a male comfortably with his feelings and emotions
I recap your videos before I go to sleep each night
Thank You
Best man communicates his emotions but is never controlled by them
@@VahnAeris simpo
Dear Leo, thank you from the bottom of my heart for the genuine content you create. It's actively changing the world around me internalizing your teachings. It's also the life advice I never got from my own dad so thank you deeply for all that you do.
I am not an active member of the forum community, I have been following your art work for over 3 years, and I can say that the impact that it has made into my life is behind words . No matter what other people are saying and doing i personally give all my appreciation for your life devotion towards expanding our conciseness absolutely remarkable, thank you very much beautiful pice of me that exists.
Thanks for the sweet words.
Since I was 14 I’ve been watching and writing notes of all your videos, doing the practices you’ve shared and introduced and researched them. to be honest it has helped me so much in not only introspecting my inner world regarding goals, beliefs and striving for growth, self-awareness, and overall becoming a better person, but academics and personal relationships aswell. I mean at a young age I was really struggling, and at 14 I struggled with addiction, neurotic/ major depression, failed school, had horrible relationships with family, had poor esteem, very little awareness, neurotic beliefs, and all these issues in my inner world that projected onto my life. Coming across your videos has probably one of the biggest things I have gratitude for. When I took initiative in healing, keeping the knowledge you shared in notebooks, and consistently following many of the practices you’ve shared, i began healing my inner world which then healed my outer world. I outgrew and drifted from friends who surrounded fun and joy around drugs, were negative energetically and overall were in the same boat as me failing school. After 4 years, I’m graduating and I’ve realized how much I’ve grown content, and passionate for life and living accordingly to my values. I gained interest in exploring so much and naturally met new friends along the way who are similar. I felt fulfilled growing with compassion and gratitude. I’ve been clean, discharged from therapy, no longer on anti-depressants, graduated with honors and awards, got into a university I love, am pursuing the field I’m passionate about this fall semester, grew close with family, and overall became magnetic to people who have great values. Your videos have helped me understand the ways of thinking I needed to take responsibility in shifting my perception and it helped me gain motivation to retake all my classes I failed over the past 4 summers to graduate with all As and honors. I became a kinder person to myself and others. I also grew so motivated and curious in exploring different fields and I discovered what I wanted to pursue in college. Your videos helped me going clean from drugs, I gained love for reading, gained so many opportunities, and the people around me noticed the complete shift in how I responded to and perceived situations in my life. Interviewing for scholarships, doing my college apps, and my current job, I expressed how interpersonal growth and awareness shifted my life, benefited me in all aspects from values, to work ethic, and it really got me to accomplish getting those jobs and getting into those schools. I recently got messages from friends who I won’t be seeing anymore as we are all going off to college telling me how much I left a positive impact in their lives and the values they see in me and it got me thinking like wow, seeing your videos on my explore page and watching them was truly the start of me gaining interest in philosophy, psychology, and spirituality. it all and changed my life for the better. The pandemic began when I was 15, so I viewed it as a perfect opportunity and spent the whole time in lockdown reading books, taking notes on your videos, meditation, and journaling for introspection. I’m glad I came across your videos at a young age and as I’m now 18 I’m just thinking about how happy and grateful how one decision really began my journey with self development and turning my situation around. Everyday I’m running during sunrise, gardening and cooking food for family and neighbors and I feel the joy of being a child again doing these simple things, looking at my surroundings,and just being present. Ultimately I learned emotional self reliance. While I’m still at the beginning of my journey, and have SO much to learn in every aspect of life, even the smallest shift made a huge difference and I appreciate it.
Blessed growth young person.. keep on keeping on.. you are worthy.
Thank you for this video Leo it came to me at the right time. I was in a spot 2 years back where i needed to make a hard decision. I was stuck in a factory work with no real education. I decisided to do my all to get into a high level university where i could study social sciences because that's really my passion. Understanding people and connections in society. I studied for 2 years while i was working in a factory at the same time just to get into the university. It felt like the stress nealy killed me, i had to study in my free time after nightshifts and such. But i did it i got in. I wanted to believe in myself and invest into my future because i have a vision to help society grow. Month ago i was finally able to quit my shitty job and all the stress hit me. I feel like i nearly lost myself in the grind. I was in so much stress that i couldn't sleep at nights, i started smoking weed and cigarettes everyday just to release some stress. But now is a time for change. I need to get my personal life back on track because i sacrifised so much of it for my future career. For the past week i have meditated alone and cried and cried out all the shit from the past 2 years. I became numb to life but that's not who i really am. I love life. And i wanna fall in love with life more and more everyday and fulfill my dreams. This video really came to me at the right time thank you so much for these teachings.
Lack of action and new experiences that you expose yourself to, what happens is your self esteem spirals way down. You’ll feel weak and powerless to make meaningful changes in your life. . So true
I was able to quit drinking because of your channel. I already wanted to quit but kept making excuses for why I couldn’t. I’m putting my life back on track and I really appreciate your post. Thank you!
I agree it's waste of life to never try for what you really want. Not everything is solved thru forcing and planning however. Tbh the answers just come when in a relaxed state and not in the state of striving to be as perfect as possible before you die lol. You have inherent value regardless of your past, achievements, bank account, skills, looks, etc. When this value is recognized you will naturally connect with every joy and get what you want..
He clearly didn't mean that i guess.
Leo, thank you. This video has helped me grow in my understanding of consciousness and the nature of reality.
I really connected to this video when you said “the celery juice is the reward” as I work for a local fresh organic juice company and that example just really resonated with me and my personal experience.
Going forward, I’m trying to view the difficult and not immediately rewarding activities as the reward. It takes a lot of work and willpower to avoid doing the activities which are immediately gratifying. But once you start to build momentum and see what you’re capable of, it’s so much easier to keep going.
There's so many great nuggets in this. Thank you for the inspiration.
I've taken a two week break from you Leo, working on my energy levels with some other YT teachers because I was lacking the will to get up and action my ideas. Today I watched this and it brings it all together for me again. Thank you, Leo. It's like I need every new video you make, at the time you release them. It's very interesting, I've seen many people say this. Taking action in my life has been hard for me as I unknowingly left my authority in others. Your videos have helped me take it back. Everything I need I can find within myself. Sending love to all who watch these videos and hear the message.
I’m 20 min in and the love and passion in your voice is so profound I can’t even begin to explain the impact you have on peoples lives of all backgrounds. Thank you so much
Hi Leo, just wanted to send you this message and show my appreciation for the work you've shared with all your followers, including myself. It sounds so cliché but you've given me inspiration and hope to turn my life around when I was at a loss, being alive but not living. I felt as if I was fumbling around in the darkness, trying to make sense of something matterless with only my hands.
I've listened to so many spiritual teachers, done research into mental health for years, read countless self-help books, and gone to therapy but nothing "clicked" for me. It felt like everyone was trying to relieve symptoms but never pulling the weed up with its root. Your detailed way of explaining confusing and overwhelming matters have helped me map out the path forward, and home. Im deeply grateful to you.
My deepest admiration and love from norway :)
Anne Fløtten
I feel the same.
He is a great guy!
Happy to be of service.
It’s all about love. Love purifies everything.
Your words have completely changed my life. I am eternally grateful for all the work and love you put into all your outstanding uploads!
I've found the less I need to make me "happy" th happier(at peace) I become. The thing I get caught on is seeing the suffering of those close to me.
I’m so thankful for Leo’s videos. Not sure where I’d be mentally without them.
Hope you release more “practical” self help videos like this expanding on career, family/relationships, motivation, life purpose, leadership etc. thank you
PHB "Petty Human Bullshit" 😂 so good, Leo is a great realist who is an awesome disser.
I’m gonna try to take what I’ve heard here to heart. I’ve learned a lot today between this and your video on life being a lot of mind games. Fascinating stuff and I love how you compare wasting your life as akin to spitting in the face of God, that’s a powerful point that I think everyone should hear
This is one of your very best videos Leo. Your works seems like its taking on yet another level of breakthrough. You're amazing and I am grateful for all you have done. Please keep it up, I can't imagine where you will be in 15 years' time with your awareness, diligence and systemic ingenuity. Thank you Leo!
Thank you Leo. This is the inflorescence of your teachings. It felt like I was in a trip and the spirit was talking to me. It has a life changing quality.
You have the best channel on RUclips
I also find that. The second best is Science4all (it's in French though).
I watched Leo's stuff when I was 16. It set me up well for navigating my life and it felt right. I'm 25 and I've come back to it because I feel like I lost the clarity and assuredness that I'd gained. I'm back on! Ready for this.
I'm 40 mins in this video and need to pause it to just say Many Blessings and Thanks for such enlightening and insightful thoughts. I'm dealing with CF and had some realization how I been treating my body. You're amazing and thank you for not putting ads as well 🙏🌞🌚
I started very early with my personal and spiritual development and it helped me a lot in a sense that I was not making common mistakes most teens and young adults make, I was able to take right decisions that led me to a decent material life. I was always able to see what is good and bad for me, had a lot of patience and knew how to get what I want. But what was always missing and is still missing in my life is that "passion". Being aware makes me not really interested in anything, nothing amazes me, even tho I see beauty everywhere around me but all I want to do is just sit and exist. But still it feels like a fight inside of me, I feel like "i want to do something with my life" but I also feel like "meh"
Wow... as an ultra-fan of Leo for years, this has got to be one of your most POWERFUL videos EVER.
Starting from today, I'm gonna audit everything in my life and make sure that I'm spending the vast majority of my energy, time, and focus on falling in love with these life pillars:
-- Consciousness (Core Pillar)
-- Health
-- Growth
-- Learning/Investing in yourself
-- Consistent Execution
-- Creativity
Thanks so much man, I can NEVER repay you for all you've done...
1:26:26 Sounds a bit egoic. Perhaps you could not take advange of the girl because she is obviously drinking to that point because there is something in her that is hurting.. so, maybe you could have love and understanding for those parts of her.. especially considering we are all one. ..just a thought!! ♡
if you guys take action, the rewards are so far beyond anything you can imagine i feel so undeserving for the way things are falling into place before my eyes. but again of course its the seeds you sow. ive seen results and it makes me want to cry, leo just gave me a little push, you guys can live an outstanding life too! may you guys struggle well! :D
Hey Leo,
I have been in the situation with a drunk girl that you describe.
My reaction was the same as yours.
I didnt take advantage of the situation when she was really drunk because I couldnt respect her for it.
I’ve been watching this channel since I was 21 about 5 years ago and I had a few awakenings and I was really motivated for enlightenment being much younger and fresh to spirituality but I wasn’t focused on my basics and felt that I was really mentally masturbating and still immature for practical life so after a few years of basic survival I see that I still have practical work to do and even realized I was functioning through depression and anxiety. I recently decided to live a very disciplined and healthy lifestyle as that is my only way to get out of this dark place and heal. Just after a couple of days of executing I am feeling exactly what Leo is talking about with the joys of doing the right things. And ever since years ago with the video about using Death as motivation, it’s always stuck with me but even more now; every night before going to bed it’s so heavy on my heart that this life IS short and it’s a miracle and a gift to even be here and to experience consciousness and that I cannot waste another day. I am nowhere near where I want to be but I wouldn’t even know what I know if it weren’t for this channel, probably the most profound and inspiring information that has changed my life. I cannot thank you enough for the genius work you’ve done and the lives you’ve transformed!!! ❤️
at 1:34, Leo says he could shoot heroin and not get addicted. If a person is experiencing constant, nagging, intense pain, as is the case for people with extreme auto accidents, gunshot wounds, head wounds, major birth defects, how can we expect them not to chase pain relief in opioids?
Thank you, Leo. The transformation that occurs within from following you for years is amazing. You are changing so many lives 🙏
This is something I really needed. Thank you for this, and what you do for us. 🙏🏻
First I heard about spirituality from you. After 3 years I have listened and read many spiritual books, have not missed one day of meditation. I am back watching you after some time and nothing is more inspiring and meaningful than your videos. Appreciate you so much, thank you. Lazy to write this comments. Should write it on every video of yours :D You deserve this man
Good work meditating.
Learning has lead the way through my intire life. From reading books, to higher education, to simply watching this video my thirst for knowledge has guided my life. I just want to know. And in knowing I have lost my love of artistic endeavors. I need to get back to basics. I need to get back to what I have always known intuitively. I want to write more, want to say more, I want to create more. I have been such a sponge absorbing everything I could that I have forgotten to also excrete my talents unto this world.
The more you do for the world, the more the world will do for you.
Do things for the world, without expecting a thing in return. That, is the ultimate happiness.
Ecclesiastes 7:16-18 NIV “Do not be overrighteous, neither be overwise- why destroy yourself? Do not be overwicked, and do not be a fool- why die before your time? It is good to grasp the one and not let go of the other. Whoever fears God will avoid all extremes.”
The Leo strikes back! Love ya man
Best channel in all of the multiverses
Very excited that you are working on a new course, would most definitely buy it
Motion graphics in a video game are amazing but the music is the true soul of a video game
I just found you. Love your work. This video is the best I’ve watch on RUclips!!! The joy is in the now and doing the work.
I want to live this life that I know is possible for me. I sense that in the deepest section of my heart. It helps to tap into this feeling by listening to you, Leo ❤
I love how a lot of ppl Say love this love that as if were easy and mechanical to decide which thing to love
I appreciate these most recent videos a great deal.
LEO you are a blessing to humanity
I HAVE NO WORDS FOR THIS VIDEO,THANK YOU!!
Your words are too big lmao
THANK YOU SO MUCH. This is Motivation to reach our full potential. Get it everybody
Leo does it again 🙌🏻
Already in love. Excited to make it better and enduring.
Is the forum also not working for anyone else? Did he delete his website?
wow...
thank you leo, this is what i needed to hear and especially the part, where you get so emotional...
also got me super emotional :(
Leo I just got to the end of your video and I just want to say that you are very inspiring. Thank you for your service. Thank you for being here. I appreciate you very much. ❤️
Thank you for everything leo. You really helped me to turn my life around throughout the years. After some really hard years, I'm falling in love with life once again. In a much more stable way, caus now I realise how it goes, how it works & how it doesn't ☮️❤️🔥
Half way through. This is awesome. You feel like a modern day Alan watts with practical tools and concepts to light a fire in people. Love it. Grateful.
This video made me realize that the number 1 thing I need in my life is Order. My emotions run rampant. Every thing affects me, what people say, how they look at me, why my parents said this, why they did that. This made me realize that I was giving away my control and making myself a victim of my own life. And as an endorsement, my go-to reasoning was that no one is as spiritually advanced as I am, so by default I dont have to change or do anything, that I’m just in a shitty situation. This video is the anti-thesis of that reasoning. That reasoning made me a prisoner in my own body, and made it so I just go through the motions of life hoping that things will work out one day. Such an ass backwards way to live. Thanks for the insight Leo 🙏🏽
Perhaps the most obvious thing that can be said but almost often goes unrecognized is that there is only one swing at this business of Life. Don Juan said death was his constant companion and lives just over his shoulder. He laughed about it.