Tom Ross

Spiritual Teacher and Practical Mystic | Assisted Karmic Rebalancing, Karmic Healing | Master Muscle Tester, Business Owner and Family Man

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What Can 12,000 Hours of Releasing Karmic Blocks Teach Us About Life? Here are 4 Game Changing Insights From 8 Years of Release Work.

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Very beautiful communication, Dan. Thank you for posting and posting long form! ❤️

Loved the beautiful paradox of nothing is needed and yet…kinda need to meditate. 😂

Meditation is a beautifully subtractive process for many, especially how you teach it.

Many require it as a gateway for their experience. You are a gift and a lighthouse.

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@heydannymiranda We’re all one thing

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@thedankoe 💯

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@heydannymiranda 100%. But authenticity is a phenomenal filter and the consequence of its lack is pain.
Congratulations!! :)

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Some people “know” the path.

They can tell you who made each brick and how it was laid.

They can tell you every architect who designed it and every philosopher who studied or trode it.

Educated opinions are plentiful without taking a step.

The uneducated who walk have few.

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@stephen_parato

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In an AI world being wholly human and meeting people in their humanity is a strategic advantage.

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There is no one out there. I’m only, ever, experiencing myself.

[Carl Jung Archive @QuoteJung]

Carl Jung:

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What a beautiful talk.

[Scient @scientxbt]

this is insane. i genuinely don't understand why ambitious people aren't shown this lecture before their careers start consuming their entire lives.

clayton christensen spent his career studying why successful companies collapse. in his final class, he asked students to apply the theory to themselves: if you keep allocating your time the same way, what life are you actually building?

he had already seen the answer in his own harvard mba class. everyone looked successful at the fifth reunion; by the 10th, 15th, 20th, and 25th, many were unhappy, divorced, and living far from their children.

work shows you the score immediately. close a sale, ship a product, finish a presentation, earn a promotion, get paid.

an hour with your child may produce nothing you can measure today; it may take 20 years to understand what that hour built. so the next free hour goes back to work, one rational decision at a time.

this is how people build lives they never planned: through hundreds of right decisions that lead in the wrong direction, day after day.

money, titles, and headcount are easy to count. christensen believed a life should be measured by the people who became better because you were there.

he died in 2020.

one question remains: if someone saw only where your time, energy, and attention went this year, what would they think actually mattered to you?

the full 19-minute lecture is in the video below.

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@itsdangoldfield Hey Dan, life is good.
Most of my time is allocated to building a mortgage company so I still talk less on X.
But always watching and love to chime in occasionally.

Still doing karmic release workshops 1-2x a year and I’ve taken on a few students recently teaching the practice.

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My man speaking truth to this AM (for me).

[Dan Goldfield @itsdangoldfield]

I thought spirituality meant neglecting my family.

When I told my parents I wanted to be a monk in 2018, they feared I wouldn’t return from Thailand.

The night before I left, they told me how much they’d miss me; how they were looking forward to spending time with me in their retirement.

I arrived at my dharma teacher’s hut deeply conflicted.I ranted at him for 10 straight minutes about how my family felt my spiritual practice was pulling me away from them, how difficult it was going to be to take this into a 10-day silent retreat with me…

Finally, my teacher interrupted me, “do I look withdrawn to you?!”He was sat on the floor, playing with his 3-year-old girl and her toys as if he were, himself, a toddler.I spent some time in the monastery and realized there was nothing magical about the place. Yet I’d put it on a pedestal because I wanted to escape the challenges of my human relationships. Painfully, I saw that everything I’d been trying to escape was in my own mind.

)And I saw that actually, in my direct experience, what was in front of me when I faced my father was a man who loved me in a way I was never supposed to understand when I was young. A month after my return home, my teacher told me I finally got the memo.

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[Jack Moses @jackmoses777]

The eternal balance of the spiritual entrepreneur:

> Being linear enough to knock off key tasks to move projects forward towards a defined goal.

> Being non-linear enough to surrender to the flow of your energy, explore the side paths, go off schedule, and and go down the strange rabbit holes.

If you're too much in the linear, you lose touch with the Spirit. But if you're much in the non-linear, you lose touch with the Earth.

Maybe eventually, if you are able to give up the world and material pursuits altogether, you can live in the non-linear, undefined state forever.

But if you're building in the world (and have a team and customers relying on you), you also have to be able to play the game of task-orientation, concentration, discpline, and linear focus.

[Justin Welsh @thejustinwelsh]

Something I've learned as I've grown older is that your friend group can normalize almost anything.

Drinking too much, spending too much, working too much, complaining too much.

Choose people who make you healthier, richer, smarter, and filled with joy.

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@jackmoses777 It was wild. No escape velocity from the human experience :)

Grateful to be on the other side!

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I dropped my oldest off at college. The enlighten me is full of joy. I intellectually, spiritually, and at a soul level understand all is well.

The body is processing loss. The animal feels that something is wrong. The lion has lost a cub.

Wasn’t expecting a grieving process

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It’s an incredible feeling to know who you are, what you are, and wholly surrender to it.

Doesn’t matter how late in life it comes.

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It’s exceedingly practical in remembering I am the hate (for example) I’m resisting in others. That the work is inner and an experienced wholeness lies on the other side.

It’s Exceedingly impractical for baking a cake. Or even dealing with a bully.

Easy to fall into “spiritual derelict”, where we’re all one and not much gets done.

For those who are called to create and build and go and do, operating functionally in a state of oneness is what Christ described as in the world but not of it.

Ultimately, rising above duality requires leaving behind identity. Usually done through healing. Not purification.

Most purification is an expression of hatred of a thing. To eradicate in order to leave it so I can be something else. That’s quintessential separation, division of the self.

Oneness is the integration of all.

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Sometimes, you’re the clog in the drain.
What is life trying to express through you right now?

What, if I just get myself out of the way, would begin to flow effortlessly?

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

Escape competition through authenticity.

@naval

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All labels, even the beautiful ones, are a trap.

I am loving sounds amazing until you are martyring yourself to bully to keep proving how loving you are.

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@vRobM It really is! Someone is definitely going to watch some last air bender this weekend :)