It's funny that you ask this question.  Just today, I was cleaning dog pee off walls.  My girlfriend "won" back her once brand new home after  25K lawsuit and 3 years of negligence.  Here we are moving back to a place we were glad to leave and even commuting 600 miles from a different State.  

So after 5 days of cleaning up after 5 dogs that marked and remarked their territory in this once lovely new home, I was cleaning and scrubbing and finally painting when I realized  that dogs mark their territory in the same way humans perpetuate the same shit (force pun intended). 

"The likelihood that man will live without war is as probable as dogs not marking and remarking," I thought, and scrubbed.

What I mean is, that expensive-mortgage home didn't belong to the dogs, so they didn't take any responsibility for it.  We didn't create earth and if we destroy it our Creator will simply relocate us- right?  

Maybe the next place will have more better stuff!

My mind is me, amidst some stimulus-response distractions. 

If I go a step farther, your mind is mine, and mine is yours.  Boundaries are part of the temporal illusion.  

I'm glad to see there are so many responses who feel safe with their- ah-hem, my mind :)!

Patience. Patience. Patience.  In this life, I am learning patience- everything else falls behind this aptitude.

What I am becoming, is not what i am seeking but together, we are becoming more patient

Nothing.  The absence of stimulus. Peace.

These are all the same.

I labeled all of my thoughts and subsequent, correlate emotions for 9-months during my senior year of college.  After a short period, labeled thoughts and emotions were easily separated with a pause.  I found time and space to change my paths, divert my energies to create more optimum paths for my limbs. 

I didn't accomplish this feat through an ambitious vein, but out of a perceived necessity to achieve absolute objectivism.

Afterwards, "it" didn't feel like anything because I had to reapply feelings to thoughts.  Old feelings fell away; through 18 years of trials applications, my new mind has its own feelings.  Where there are few old feelings, they come through as one-dimensional labels.

For this new year we have decided to leave our meditation mileu for a debt-free existence.  We live in a place where other people vacation.  It is lovely but after only 18 months, life here has hit us with a harsh reality, "There's no way to get ahead." 

I think the answer is obvious- I've been moved to Earth!

Everyone knows, or let's assume, that humans have an energy force around their body.  Think about what it looks like right now.  How far out does it extend? 

This energy suit is the perimeter of energy that flows from inside your muscles and cells, and goes to the core of your soul.  I would go so far as to say that it is the effect of your soul churning around in metaphysical land.

Okay, let's get on with the question.  When you reach for something, this energy source is not congealed or strong enough to keep you from obtaining a material substance.  But how do you reach and draw back something that isn't made of material?  How do you reach for a non-physical being or substance without pushing it away?

I've read a dozen+ answers, in hopes that it would trigger what I stand for.  I dunno.  It seems along my journey, everytime I grasp a good ideal I get beat up trying to defend its goodness.  The Universe has taught me time and time again, "The only absolute is there are no absolutes."  Life is constantly evolving. 

I don't think there is any one thing, even a kind of thing, that we are suppose to hold above another- it all leads to war. 

After all my observations, the answer is... i stand for now. If I stand for an ideal, it may not fit "now" but I'd blindly defend it anyways. 

Here, I can't offer an example, because someone would take offense at the particulars of that example and we'd have an e-war about what I was trying to say.  Yes, there are people squabbling about personal principles in zaadz- hush my potty mouth!

I guess I stand for the ideal that all I have to do in Life is keep my ears open and breathe- or I'll miss a living moment while I'm trying to fix it.