First of all & most important...welcome to this thread.
I appreciate the path you are upon.
We are all trapped. All prisoners.
Where I am at now is in no-way superior to you but I want to share, as you have, something you may, one day, be able to use.
There is a message...no better yet, a state of being, that touches freeing ourselves, to a degree, from Birth after birth, Old Age, Disease, and Death.
This state of being does not need dogma such as Hare Krishna Maha-Mantra, Christ, Allah or any other leader/godhead.
Don't be afraid, one day, to overthrow your intellectualism.
It is the ultimate experience in philosophy and in spirituality. Good luck in all you do.
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I know this is a strange message, it is a paradox, being that we are all trapped within this medium, this forum, that, seems to favor intellectualism exclusively but, nevertheless, I think this needs to be stated.
Using the GIF above as a metaphor, I can say, there is much more below the surface, much more beyond our intellectualism as far as philosophy or our spirituality is concerned.
Our life-giving bread as philosophers is truely below the surface. Our food; our goal, is located within a more complete state of being.
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