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If you have any image of what the Truth is, slay it immediately because that’s not it.

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When you stand in your own authority, based in your own direct experience, you meet that ultimate mystery that you are. Even though it may be at first unsettling to look into your own no-thingness.
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Authority Based May Mystery Stand Suffering Ultimate Want
It is one thing to touch a flame and know it is hot, but quite another to jump into that flame and be consumed by it.
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Another Burning Consumed Flame Hot Jump Quite Touch
There’s a great space in which this moment takes place. There’s a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.
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Listening Moment Place Silence Space Thought
My teacher used to say ‘all love is bittersweet’. All things experienced fully, reveal their opposite.
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Bittersweet Experienced Opposite Reveal Teacher Used
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
A spiritual teaching is a finger pointing toward Reality; it is not Reality itself. To be in a true and mature relationship with a spiritual teaching requires you to apply it, not simply believe in it.
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Believe Finger Mature Pointing Relationship Spiritual Teaching True
At first it seems as if begoing follows becoming. But look even closer and you will see that there are only flashes of lightning illuminating the empty sky.
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Becoming Begging Closer First Flashes Follow Journey Seem Sky
Take the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you.
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Armor Arrow Penetrate Truth
Whatever you resist, persists.
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Persist Resist Whatever
It’s wearing spiritual clothing and spiritual concepts, but it is really no different than a drunk in the gutter who doesn’t want to feel the pain anymore.
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Anymore Clothing Concept Different Drunk Pain Spiritual Wearing
True love has nothing to do with liking someone, agreeing with him or her or being compatible. It is a love of unity, a love of seeing God wearing all the masks, and recognising itself in them all..
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Agree Compatible Fall Love Nothing Strength Unity Wall You
Faith is a withholding of conclusion so that you allow what is to arise.
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Arise Conclusion Faith Holding Withholding
So the biggest act of compassion starts within. And when the self is no longer seen as a problem, this is called “the peace that passes all understanding.
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The moment that you are willing to step outside of tomorrow, outside of needing more time, or having more time, everything becomes possible. And you may finally notice where the Buddha has always been.
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Having May Moment More Needing Outside Step Time Tomorrow Willing
Our own intuition of what we’re called to is reality speaking to us individually and perfectly. We have to listen to how the Infinite talks to us and leads us. Reality, Life the Infinite, God, has a way of leading us in just the perfect way, if we will only just listen to it.
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Individually Intuition Perfect Perfectly Reality Speaking
Enlightenment is a destructive process.
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Destructive Enlightenment Process

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