I majored in Marketing In college and I can tell you after working on that for a while before it made me realize how Marketing is used by evil to basically lie to the consumer and create fake desires, status , needs that nobody really needs. Marketing is materialism at is best and totally empty and shallow . Companies want to create busying addiction to the consumers and it will never satisfy . Live healthy , forget the world and follow your peace .
Introverts living in an extroverted world. Thats how I feel in this world. I can conversate with anyone about anything, but i see things differently than most people around me and the rest of the world. It is weird, but thats what our society has done to us.
Yes! I'm glad I came upon this video. Thank you so much!!! It can be hard to find kindred spirits, but they are out there and it is so special when you finally meet them. It makes it worth the wait.
Honestly, that view of society and loniness is just as if you were standing by my side. I can really relate to many of these things you say and think. Thanks for exspressing it.
The first video I ever saw of yours. I was hooked. Whenever I watch one of your videos, I keep saying "Yes!" and "I know!". Now to put it all into practice...the hard part. ~Jane
oh my god dude. i've been writing papers since 7th grade about being surrounded by people who seem to lack a perspective or any sense of depth. i don't make friends with most people because i just can't picture that they have anything of substance seeing from their eyes. thanks man.
I'm most lonely when I have to be around so called other "people". I don't want to be connected to them. I don't think like them at all. I much prefer dogs and long hikes in deep woods which I do almost every day. When I'm out there alone I'm all of a sudden not lonely. My internet friends are all dead such as Schopenhauer and Henry Miller and more.
Yes, but I try to work on this within myself. It's so easy to look at the flaws of others. But real growth happens through self-examination. Once we tame our own ego, then we can see beyond the ego in others.
Your comments ring so true. I've always felt unique in not being as swept up in mainstream things like celebrity gossip, fashion, wearing makeup, watching dumb TV shows, etc. as so many others seem to be. If we switched our focus to things that actually matter, there would be a lot less suffering, and I think a less loneliness in the world.
I agree. I have been embracing sacred solitude for a long time now & have my moments of the lonelies I would love to meet like minded people who prefer to connect & engage more deeply yet I also would like the balance of enriching fun & playful friendships. In the past I have met people in person who think like I do but tend to be so deeply introspective it's all about the depth, it would be nice to meet some fun & clear thinkers who also don't take things so seriously. Someone once told me we tend not to meet many people like that because they are needed in different places across the globe & we are networking on the web. But yes real connection I seek this too.
Mike Barooshian hi Mike, don't give up. I posted this 2 years ago and everything has changed. I started practising mindfulness and doing hoopononono (google it) and really valuing my time and me. It's a long process, so no quick fixes, but every day I've done it and I have great friends now. I believed I was invisible so when I began to embrace the fear and sadness from a loving place (not resisting it or trying to change it), I began to open my heart to me. I then became more visible to the right people. I've had depression for a long time and it's lifting. Changing my diet helped too, removing gluten and milk products and cutting back on the sugar gave my body space to breathe, the heavy foods depressed my body and emotions. Keep going, there is a way through the dark, it just takes daily practice and self acceptance xxx
Mike Barooshian ps. A friend of mine who is 42 never had a girlfriend or good job either and this year he has his first girlfriend and has had a good job. He's done the same as me, meditation, hoopononono and mindfulness. Xx
Mike Barooshian hi Mike you can add me on Google + email me.i can't guarantee regular replies as I work online and not a professional therapist, but I can be a listening ear from time to time.
Silence is golden. I seek those moments throughout the day. Check out Eckhart Tolle's "Stillness Speaks". I rarely use curse words and rarely drink alcohol. Thank you for your comments.
hey man, i just starting watching a lot of your videos and they're really inspiring and full of information that can bring one to peace with him or her self..you sound like a much more articulate version of myself, you're extremely talented at explicating and propogating your beliefs, thank you very much for sharing your views-i like listening to them because i have all these deep thoughts and questions and you seem to always provide a clear and logical answer that ANYONE can thrive off of
Thanks for your comment. Good advice about viewing people having varying levels of development. It is a mystery as to why some progress & the masses remain inured. For me it was a burning desire to discover truth for myself.
It's so hard to forget about how one was "programmed" since birth. It's hard to get out of the material comfort but it feels so much nicer and better to live a simpler life and centre in ourselves. It's hard to live in society knowing something that people don't want to get out of. I'm happy I can find people that know this stuff.
Great vid...It's difficult to both be non judgemental, but also recognize, as you say, the lack of depth and integrity in people, the inability to question most everything, the interest in being good when no one is looking, to use a common phrase. For me, when I'm interacting with people, be it friends (who I almost use just to fill the small social niche in my life), or at a job, I feel like a have to be some one else just to avoid coming off as some patronizing preacher.Introvert disadvantage.
Hiya Socrates. Differences when embraced do help us appreciate each other. Unfortunately mainstream thinking tries to swallow & conform those who choose the road less traveled. Thankfully UA-cam connects us kindred spirits & provides a network of support.
Thank you for sharing your experience; we all can relate. While alone=safe it's corrolary is alone=ALONE. Thankfully this world is filled with a few kindred spirits. Being open & authentic is the best way to connect with them. Discernment, going slow, lower expectations & getting to know someones character is good preventive medicine to getting burned.
I don't always agree with everything you say but I enjoy following your thoughts on things. Hail and Well met. Much of What you say I am, have, or am coming too and saying to myself how silly I didn't see this before in all these years of chasing enlightenment. It was more like I had to sit still so It could catch up like a mother chasing down a bratty child LOL. You are True Soul Sir.
I too am from Los Angeles... and I think we think alike. Good to know there's other people out there who are tired of the artificial, superficial society. It is so much more easier to do it the Eckhart Tolle way :)
@vagabondsteve Oh no I agree we're not powerless. I just feel that some of us are not strong enough to deal with it. Or maybe some of us do not realize how strong we are. And I aslo take back what I said about an Extroverted world because there many countries that do value introverts. One of them being China. Thanks again for your videos Steve. They really help a bunch.
There are so many others who think like you but are suffocated by the mask of conformity. If you have the courage to take off your mask, others will then slowly feel safe to take off theirs. When we advertise our true self, we begin to find kindred spirits. Take an active effort in meeting those outside of your normal sphere. Go to meetup dot com, meditation classes, book/hiking clubs, and travel. Become an explorer of life by getting out of your comfort zone. You're not alone!
There are like minded people out there. We are most likely to find them when we advertise our true nature. UA-cam provides a great opportunity to connect with kindred spirits. Thank you for your comment.
Very interesting steve. I enjoyed this video very much. Absolutely agree with you and people do spend far too much time watching nonsense on the tv just so they can talk about last nights game show or what soap star said what to another bla bla,and for what? To become popular at work and fit in with collegues. That`s my opinion anyway and I would much prefere to walk in the park or somewhere quiet away from all the noise.
Or we can release control and give each other space to be. Let's share values without imposition. Fear creates the illusion of needing to control or fight. Living in the now is the great antidote to so many woes.
Thank you for your constructive comment. If you watch my other videos you will find we agree; everyone needs to find their OWN X,Y,Z. Too often our pursuits are externally driven instead of internally inspired. I enjoy sharing MY passions as one alternative to media, social programming, and mainstream thinking.
TY for all your comments. I'll look into the book. In the movie "The Matrix" they were able to enter into the system for their benefit without being enslaved by it.
I would, with pleasure, ask you out, have dinner, and a chat with you, because you seem to be a very interesting, and attractive person :-). Thank you for some great insights.
I have a natural attraction to pursue altered states of mind. Whether it be from one of the many psychoactives that grow from the ground, or it comes from within. I have never understood the heard mentality, until my first mushroom experience. It was then I realized, everyone I knew seemed to be running some kind of race against eachother. Like idiots running for the finish line in a life they will have a chance to be again. We must return to our roots with modern knowledge and go to space.
Personally I think people tend to keep to themselves or become loners because getting involved with people often ends up bad. I trust very few people, but was not always like that. After dozens of back-stabbings I have become less naive as to how cruel others can be. Alone=safe.
love your videos, try to read more, or garden or, play music, people once lived on farms, more physically isolated, but the few people that were around were CONNECTED to you, just like you are saying.
We have two options. 1. Become the change you want to see. Ex: volunteer in senior homes and at youth centers. 2. Acceptance. To complain about it without action is fruitless.
Look at the laws they favor women. I would blame myself for the divorce if I went and got married knowing hwo the table is tilted. My power lies in avoiding marriage in the first place till the laws change.
I went to church to connect with people, but I found that making connection to go deeper than establishing superficial relationships relationship is hard. I don't think that church is the place to be for avoiding loneliness.
@66thPsalm Thank you. Key word 'believe'. Is there any possible chance that God is a belief humans have created? Meditate on it without an immediate automated rebuttal.
I love this guy. I connected with another guy on UA-cam who is just and amazing talent .. you might want to check him out: Graeme Glendinning and also his homepage for art: .He's also highly spiritual and GETS IT. Thanks for connecting with me too.
love is EXACTLY the purpose of life. that is my 'religion'. technically i'm 'christian', and nothing angers me more than closed minded empty shallow christians who have nothing to lean on but cliches from the bible. i believe in the bible, but i do NOT think that it's the only way to connect to LOVE. i believe God is love in more sense than most christians say. literally, real love anywhere in the world IS God, or whatever entity or energy or person 'God' is. people need LOVE
If you got money, you are allowed to think and live your life like you do. but if not, you are in a big mess... so ultimaltly you are a "genius or a loser" depending on you bank account and unfortunatly you can't hide or run from these guidelines...
I love you man. I connected with another guy on UA-cam who is just and amazing talent .. you might want to check him out: Graeme Glendinning and also his homepage for art: He's also highly spiritual and GETS IT like you do..
Psuedo community? Ever played Mafia Wars or Farmville? Once again boldly making videos from the where ever.... carpark or OOuutter Space.... TV has replaced the cold, dead fireplace
I agree, have you seen BBC special titled THE CENTURY OF THE SELF. I thought it explained alot of how people are brainwashed to be self centered to the point of madness.
I majored in Marketing In college and I can tell you after working on that for a while before it made me realize how Marketing is used by evil to basically lie to the consumer and create fake desires, status , needs that nobody really needs. Marketing is materialism at is best and totally empty and shallow . Companies want to create busying addiction to the consumers and it will never satisfy . Live healthy , forget the world and follow your peace .
Yeshua Talmidin Good comment!
Introverts living in an extroverted world. Thats how I feel in this world. I can conversate with anyone about anything, but i see things differently than most people around me and the rest of the world. It is weird, but thats what our society has done to us.
Peace is filling the void from within. Then you no longer become dependent on the chaos of the world.
I agree. People don't need each other nowadays.
if there is a community of people that think this way i would like nothing more than to be a part of it
Yes! I'm glad I came upon this video. Thank you so much!!! It can be hard to find kindred spirits, but they are out there and it is so special when you finally meet them. It makes it worth the wait.
Honestly, that view of society and loniness is just as if you were standing by my side. I can really relate to many of these things you say and think. Thanks for exspressing it.
"The more real you get, the more unreal the world gets" - John Lennon
The first video I ever saw of yours. I was hooked. Whenever I watch one of your videos, I keep saying "Yes!" and "I know!". Now to put it all into practice...the hard part. ~Jane
oh my god dude. i've been writing papers since 7th grade about being surrounded by people who seem to lack a perspective or any sense of depth. i don't make friends with most people because i just can't picture that they have anything of substance seeing from their eyes. thanks man.
I am really enjoy your videos steve.
You have much wisdom to spread.
Thank you.
I'm most lonely when I have to be around so called other "people". I don't want to be connected to them. I don't think like them at all. I much prefer dogs and long hikes in deep woods which I do almost every day. When I'm out there alone I'm all of a sudden not lonely. My internet friends are all dead such as Schopenhauer and Henry Miller and more.
Thank you for subscribing and reaching out. Your right a community of kindred spirits is paramount.
This video is excellent and the comments in it are just as good. Thank you for posting this Steve.
Yes, but I try to work on this within myself. It's so easy to look at the flaws of others. But real growth happens through self-examination. Once we tame our own ego, then we can see beyond the ego in others.
Thank you Chad! You're not alone. There are many of us who long to drink from the depths of life.
Bulls-eye! Your comment should be the anthem for all those who seek authenticity. Thank you for sharing.
Your comments ring so true. I've always felt unique in not being as swept up in mainstream things like celebrity gossip, fashion, wearing makeup, watching dumb TV shows, etc. as so many others seem to be. If we switched our focus to things that actually matter, there would be a lot less suffering, and I think a less loneliness in the world.
This is so true i have thought about this many times.
You are an role model to many. Thank you for staying true to yourself.
I am surprised a person like you lives in LA your so open minded and most people in LA are so Hollywood
Well said! There are many kindred spirits like us out there. By being ourselves we are more likely to attract them. Thank you for subscribing.
I agree. I have been embracing sacred solitude for a long time now & have my moments of the lonelies I would love to meet like minded people who prefer to connect & engage more deeply yet I also would like the balance of enriching fun & playful friendships. In the past I have met people in person who think like I do but tend to be so deeply introspective it's all about the depth, it would be nice to meet some fun & clear thinkers who also don't take things so seriously. Someone once told me we tend not to meet many people like that because they are needed in different places across the globe & we are networking on the web. But yes real connection I seek this too.
Kelly Martin I agree
Mike Barooshian hi Mike, don't give up. I posted this 2 years ago and everything has changed. I started practising mindfulness and doing hoopononono (google it) and really valuing my time and me. It's a long process, so no quick fixes, but every day I've done it and I have great friends now. I believed I was invisible so when I began to embrace the fear and sadness from a loving place (not resisting it or trying to change it), I began to open my heart to me. I then became more visible to the right people. I've had depression for a long time and it's lifting. Changing my diet helped too, removing gluten and milk products and cutting back on the sugar gave my body space to breathe, the heavy foods depressed my body and emotions. Keep going, there is a way through the dark, it just takes daily practice and self acceptance xxx
Mike Barooshian ps. A friend of mine who is 42 never had a girlfriend or good job either and this year he has his first girlfriend and has had a good job. He's done the same as me, meditation, hoopononono and mindfulness. Xx
Mike Barooshian hi Mike you can add me on Google + email me.i can't guarantee regular replies as I work online and not a professional therapist, but I can be a listening ear from time to time.
I also recommend you search Jeff Foster and depression on you tube (Jeff foster depression) he's an amazing teacher.
Silence is golden. I seek those moments throughout the day. Check out Eckhart Tolle's "Stillness Speaks". I rarely use curse words and rarely drink alcohol. Thank you for your comments.
hey man, i just starting watching a lot of your videos and they're really inspiring and full of information that can bring one to peace with him or her self..you sound like a much more articulate version of myself, you're extremely talented at explicating and propogating your beliefs, thank you very much for sharing your views-i like listening to them because i have all these deep thoughts and questions and you seem to always provide a clear and logical answer that ANYONE can thrive off of
Your comment made my day :) Thanks to the internet like minded people are connecting and "we are multiplying by the day!"
Thanks for your comment. Good advice about viewing people having varying levels of development. It is a mystery as to why some progress & the masses remain inured. For me it was a burning desire to discover truth for myself.
This video really struck a cord in my heart. Thank you!
It's so hard to forget about how one was "programmed" since birth. It's hard to get out of the material comfort but it feels so much nicer and better to live a simpler life and centre in ourselves. It's hard to live in society knowing something that people don't want to get out of. I'm happy I can find people that know this stuff.
Great vid...It's difficult to both be non judgemental, but also recognize, as you say, the lack of depth and integrity in people, the inability to question most everything, the interest in being good when no one is looking, to use a common phrase. For me, when I'm interacting with people, be it friends (who I almost use just to fill the small social niche in my life), or at a job, I feel like a have to be some one else just to avoid coming off as some patronizing preacher.Introvert disadvantage.
Hiya Socrates. Differences when embraced do help us appreciate each other. Unfortunately mainstream thinking tries to swallow & conform those who choose the road less traveled. Thankfully UA-cam connects us kindred spirits & provides a network of support.
Your comment inspired my day! Thank you.
you look really enlighten on this video:)
I do need to socialize!
Thank you for sharing your experience; we all can relate. While alone=safe it's corrolary is alone=ALONE. Thankfully this world is filled with a few kindred spirits. Being open & authentic is the best way to connect with them. Discernment, going slow, lower expectations & getting to know someones character is good preventive medicine to getting burned.
This is enlightening....thanks for sharing
Yes, I learned a lot on how societies are conditioned watching "The Century of the Self". Thank you for commenting.
I don't always agree with everything you say but I enjoy following your thoughts on things. Hail and Well met.
Much of What you say I am, have, or am coming too and saying to myself how silly I didn't see this before in all these years of chasing enlightenment. It was more like I had to sit still so It could catch up like a mother chasing down a bratty child LOL. You are True Soul Sir.
Force myself to be social so I can get a little fix. Then everyone wanders away from each other in the end, its just so sick..
you have a beautiful soul!
I too am from Los Angeles... and I think we think alike. Good to know there's other people out there who are tired of the artificial, superficial society. It is so much more easier to do it the Eckhart Tolle way :)
Hello friend! Thank you for sharing.
@old5oul Your welcome. Thank you for your kind words.
It is true! I've recently met some kindred spirits on UA-cam.
@vagabondsteve Oh no I agree we're not powerless. I just feel that some of us are not strong enough to deal with it. Or maybe some of us do not realize how strong we are. And I aslo take back what I said about an Extroverted world because there many countries that do value introverts. One of them being China. Thanks again for your videos Steve. They really help a bunch.
steve you have succceeded. Like spirited people have found you. Hello, light in the darkness shinning like the moon. love, wolffenhaus.
Great quote!
Where did I say we shouldn't work to be happy? I said to stop chasing happiness through external means not to stop working.
There are so many others who think like you but are suffocated by the mask of conformity. If you have the courage to take off your mask, others will then slowly feel safe to take off theirs. When we advertise our true self, we begin to find kindred spirits. Take an active effort in meeting those outside of your normal sphere. Go to meetup dot com, meditation classes, book/hiking clubs, and travel. Become an explorer of life by getting out of your comfort zone. You're not alone!
There are like minded people out there. We are most likely to find them when we advertise our true nature. UA-cam provides a great opportunity to connect with kindred spirits. Thank you for your comment.
Very interesting steve.
I enjoyed this video very much.
Absolutely agree with you and people do spend far too much time watching nonsense on the tv just so they can talk about last nights game show or what soap star said what to another bla bla,and for what?
To become popular at work and fit in with collegues.
That`s my opinion anyway and I would much prefere to walk in the park or somewhere quiet away from all the noise.
Or we can release control and give each other space to be. Let's share values without imposition. Fear creates the illusion of needing to control or fight. Living in the now is the great antidote to so many woes.
Thank you for your constructive comment. If you watch my other videos you will find we agree; everyone needs to find their OWN X,Y,Z. Too often our pursuits are externally driven instead of internally inspired. I enjoy sharing MY passions as one alternative to media, social programming, and mainstream thinking.
Awareness is freedom. Create the life you want.
i love your videos.
Glad you enjoyed the dialogue. Thank you for commenting.
"Love is all you need." Thank you for commenting.
TY for all your comments. I'll look into the book. In the movie "The Matrix" they were able to enter into the system for their benefit without being enslaved by it.
i'll be part of your community!
I would, with pleasure, ask you out, have dinner, and a chat with you, because you seem to be a very interesting, and attractive person :-). Thank you for some great insights.
I have a natural attraction to pursue altered states of mind. Whether it be from one of the many psychoactives that grow from the ground, or it comes from within. I have never understood the heard mentality, until my first mushroom experience. It was then I realized, everyone I knew seemed to be running some kind of race against eachother. Like idiots running for the finish line in a life they will have a chance to be again. We must return to our roots with modern knowledge and go to space.
@mrbigdickballs Thank you. There are many people out there who think like this which is encouraging.
@twomps730 I go into depth about your question with my other videos. Also read the book, "Party of One" by Anneli Rufus
We have all the walls surround us blocking others.
@TSGS21 Agree with everything except the last sentence because it leaves introverts powerless. We're not powerless.
Thank you!
Love it!
Personally I think people tend to keep to themselves or become loners because getting involved with people often ends up bad. I trust very few people, but was not always like that. After dozens of back-stabbings I have become less naive as to how cruel others can be. Alone=safe.
@solodarkwolf Search google to find communities which are aligned with your principles. They exist but it takes a bit of searching to find them.
love your videos, try to read more, or garden or, play music, people once lived on farms, more physically isolated, but the few people that were around were CONNECTED to you, just like you are saying.
@cintheasaulnier Agreed, difficult times cause people to reassess what's important.
We have two options. 1. Become the change you want to see. Ex: volunteer in senior homes and at youth centers. 2. Acceptance. To complain about it without action is fruitless.
There are legions of us. Those who love solitude just quietly go about our business.
Look at the laws they favor women. I would blame myself for the divorce if I went and got married knowing hwo the table is tilted. My power lies in avoiding marriage in the first place till the laws change.
@slawaq8 unlikely, but thanks.
thanks :)
I went to church to connect with people, but I found that making connection to go deeper than establishing superficial relationships relationship is hard. I don't think that church is the place to be for avoiding loneliness.
Well Said. Well Spoken. Here! Here! Rebert. :) Sorry. I don't know what "Rebert" means but I felt it was most appropriate. Rebert!!!
so true!!!
@jruizdemena Find kindred spirits or non kindred spirits. Your intuition knows best what kind of friends it needs. Trust it to guide you.
Are we always alone... or is this too perception?
You're the bomb
Is there anything lacking in this moment?
@66thPsalm Thank you. Key word 'believe'. Is there any possible chance that God is a belief humans have created? Meditate on it without an immediate automated rebuttal.
@plstrom Does this belief help or limit you? Live life on your own terms.
I love this guy. I connected with another guy on UA-cam who is just and amazing talent .. you might want to check him out: Graeme Glendinning and also his homepage for art: .He's also highly spiritual and GETS IT. Thanks for connecting with me too.
Thank you for commenting & subscribing.
Social animals with the history of tribal living, should we all embrace polyamory?
love is EXACTLY the purpose of life. that is my 'religion'. technically i'm 'christian', and nothing angers me more than closed minded empty shallow christians who have nothing to lean on but cliches from the bible. i believe in the bible, but i do NOT think that it's the only way to connect to LOVE. i believe God is love in more sense than most christians say. literally, real love anywhere in the world IS God, or whatever entity or energy or person 'God' is. people need LOVE
We live longer and less.
If you got money, you are allowed to think and live your life like you do. but if not, you are in a big mess...
so ultimaltly you are a "genius or a loser" depending on you bank account and unfortunatly you can't hide or run from these guidelines...
Maybe i can become one of these special people. I ve got the talent^^ i have to add more skills haha
I love you man. I connected with another guy on UA-cam who is just and amazing talent .. you might want to check him out: Graeme Glendinning and also his homepage for art: He's also highly spiritual and GETS IT like you do..
Psuedo community? Ever played Mafia Wars or Farmville? Once again boldly making videos from the where ever.... carpark or OOuutter Space.... TV has replaced the cold, dead fireplace
I agree, have you seen BBC special titled THE CENTURY OF THE SELF. I thought it explained alot of how people are brainwashed to be self centered to the point of madness.
Won't help in a feminist society. Check out Barbarossaaaa's channel.
Thank you!