@liora
Liora H
@lioraΒ Β·Β 4:40

Is Love the Red Pill?

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All of those thoughts are perfectly fine and valid. But what's happening is you're not truly experiencing whatever it is you're doing because your head isn't there. And basically, what Dr. Bruce Lipton is saying is that when you're in love, when you find love, you just sort of make the switch automatically and you're not even trying to do it

Does love have the power to pull us out of the matrix and make us present? #love #relationships #philosophy #spirituality #thematrix

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@Izzy
Izzy S-L
@IzzyΒ Β·Β 1:45
And it's interesting, because when I think of the red Pill, I think of it giving you a new found understanding of the reality of the world. And for me, I feel like love makes me feel really idealistic instead of realistic. So is it actually that what society has taught us is idealism is actually reality. But for some reason, we just categorize it as idealism because of what society has taught us and everything like that. But I don't know
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@SeekingPlumb

(Sorry for the downer. 😬) @liora @Izzy

And then what is that saying, then, about people who choose to be single? Like he's attached this negative connotation to the blue pill, and we know that we can be mindful and present without being in love. And if we use his analogy, are we really being present and really being mindful when we take that red pill? Because again, if we're living in some sort of an altered rose colored glasses world, is that really being present?
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@liora
Liora H
@lioraΒ Β·Β 4:42

@Izzy @SeekingPlumb

I don't know if it's that simple, but I do think that feeling loved and loving someone else, regardless of whether it's romantic or platonic or familial, does bring us into the moment in a way that just being with anybody else who doesn't really matter to us does. I think that there's definitely a distinction to the way we perceive things in one situation versus another
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@SeekingPlumb

Thank you for offering perspective, @liora. πŸ™πŸ»

And you sort of need those two perspectives together to make it work. And maybe that's it because when we're in some sort of relationship, friend, family, loved one romantic, there's not that other person. There not that realistic aspect there specifically when we become infatuated with someone right. We tend to blur out the not so pleasant parts of someone that can become unhealthy. But I think maybe it's just like I said, an extreme version of idealism
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Swell Team
@SwellΒ Β·Β 0:15

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@Izzy
Izzy S-L
@IzzyΒ Β·Β 3:31

@SeekingPlumb @liora

And that's not at all how I look at it. I think there's this misconception sometimes, although sometimes it might be true. But for me, in my experiences, this marriage and this relationship has presented me with so many more opportunities and this endless amount of unconditional love and support. And just like a true foundation for me to spread my wings and be ambitious and move forward. And in that sense of grounding and connecting with realism, I've been able to be more idealistic
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