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All delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we’re talking to ourselves and then believing what we are saying.

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Silence is itself the eternal witness without form or attributes. As you rest more profoundly as the witness, all objects take on their natural functionality, and awareness becomes free of the mind’s compulsive contractions and identifications. It returns to its natural non-state of Presence.
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Arise Attribute Awareness Eternal Natural Object Profound Silence Witness
Ego is neither positive nor negative. Those are simply concepts that create more boundaries. Ego is just ego, and the disaster of it all is that you, as a spiritual seeker, have been conditioned to think of the ego as bad, as an enemy, as something to be destroyed.
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Boundaries Concept Create Ego Positive Spiritual Thinking War
True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.
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Derive Doe Intelligence Thinking Thought Use Uses
The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears.
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Accepted Disappear Paradox Resistance
You lose your separateness, you lose your specialness, you lose the dream you have lived all your life. Eventually you lose everything that your mind has created and awaken to who you truly are: the fullness of freedom, unbound by any identifications, identities, or boundaries.
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Awaken Boundaries Dream Everything Life Lose Seeker Separateness Spiritual
Nothing appears to be something. The human experience is a senseory organ for the divine self. Through these eyes, the divine gets to see itself in form.
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Appear Awareness Devine Experience Eye Human Self Sensory
Thoughts in your head are really no different than the sound of a bird outside. It is just that you decide that they are more or less relevant.
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Bird Decide Different Outside Really Sound Thought
No matter what identity we cling to, it takes great courage to step out of the old masks we wear and the old scripts that we live by, and open ourselves to the mysterious inner core of our being.
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Courage Great Identity Mask Matter Old Script Step
If you give yourself this gift of not knowing and you follow it, a vast spaciousness and mysterious openness dawns within you.
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Drawn Follow Gift Give Knowing Mysterious Openness Spaciousness Vast
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
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
This movement of grasping and aversion gives rise to a sense of a separate ‘me,’ and in turn the sense of ‘me’ strengthens itself this way.
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Aversion Grasping Movement Rise Sense Separate Strengthens
To awaken to the absolute view is profound and transformative, but to awaken from all fixed points of view is the birth of true non-duality. If emptiness cannot dance, it is not true emptiness.
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Absolute Awaken Dream Fixed Night Point Profound Sky
When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are. When I have a thought about you, that’s something I’ve created. I’ve turned you into an idea.
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Believe Experience Idea Other Really Thought World
When you begin to become conscious, more aware, when your eyes begin to open, the first thing you see is how deluded you are and how much you’re holding onto that which makes you suffer. This is, in many ways, the most important step: Are you willing to be aware?
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Aware Begin Conscious Eye First Important Suffering Thing
Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness
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Consciousness Enlightenment State

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