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Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.

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The teaching must not only consume you, but consume itself as well. All must be burned to ash, and then the ash must be burned. Then, and only then, is the Ultimate realized.
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Ash Burned Consume Realized Teaching Ultimate
Ego is the movement of the mind toward objects of perception in the form of grasping, and away from objects in the form of aversion. This fundamentally is all the ego is.
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Away Ego Giving Grasping Mind Object Perception
Everybody is free to be as they are. Until the whole world is free to agree with you or disagree with you, until you have given the freedom to everyone to like you or not like you, to love you or hate you,
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Agree Disagree Everybody Freedom Given Like Until
Most human beings spend their lives battling with opposing inner forces: what they think they should do versus what they are doing; how they feel about themselves versus how they are; whether they think they’re right and worthy or wrong and unworthy.
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Batting Division Force Human Opposing Self Thinking Versus
Concentration is a way in which we are actually directing or guiding or controlling our experience. Meditation is letting go of control, letting go of guiding our experience in any way whatsoever. The foundation of True Meditation is that we are letting go of control.
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Concentration Control Directing Experience Guiding Meditation Way
The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being.
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Authentic Being Deeply Honest Mystery Positive Thinking
All you have to do is say “yes.” Don’t make some big project out of it. Don’t make some big deal out of it. Just say “yes.” You don’t even know what it means to say “yes,” but you say it anyway. You’ll never know what it means to say “yes,” but you do it anyway.
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Big Deal Freedom Love Mean Say Trust Yes
There is no security in freedom, at least not in the sense that we normally think of security. This is, of course, why it is so free: there’s nothing there to grab hold of.
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Absolute Freedom Normally Nothing Safely Security
What is really important you can’t understand with your mind.
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Important Mind Really Understand
You think that enlightenment is something other than what is happening right now. This is your primary mistake.
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Enlightenment Happening Mistake Now Primary Right Thinking
The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.
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Existence Flow Harmony Magical More
When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable. It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we are not relating from the truth. It’s a beautiful pointer. It never fails.
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Beautiful Mean Seeing Suffer Suffering Truth Valuable
They know deep down that certain things in their lives are working or aren’t working, that certain parts of their lives are functional and others are dysfunctional. But sometimes, as human beings, we don’t want to know what’s not convenient. So we pretend not to know.
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Certain Dep Functional Human Know Live Part Pretend Thing Working
You must choose between your attachments and happiness.
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Attachment Happiness Must Choose Positive Selected Thinking
Space and stillness is the light that illuminates the beauty of our soul’s being.
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Beauty Illuminate Light Soul Space Stillness
Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control.
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Control Go Letting Mastering Meditation Real

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