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Have you noticed, with whatever quality of love you have experienced, that when true love arises, it opens up both your mind and emotions? It’s an openness to whatever is happening.

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In the heart of a human being, emptiness becomes love. When we touch that Source, instantly the love is present. Literally, the divine becomes human and the human becomes divine.
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Concept Fixating Free Heart Hold Human Love Emptiness
The middle way is an invitation to leap beyond nirvana and samsara and to realize the unborn Buddha mind right in the middle of everywhere.
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Beyond Buddha Everywhere Invitation Middle Unborn
How do I integrate spirituality into my everyday life? Throw out the concept of “spiritual life” and “everyday life.” There is only life, undivided and whole.
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Everyday Integrate Integrating Life Spiritual
Take one step backward into the unknown.
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Backward One Step Take Unknown
The question of being is everything. Nothing could be more important or consequential-n othing where the stakes run so high.
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Consequential Important Nothing Question Running Simple Sleep Stake
Thoughts are just moving through consciousness. They have no power. Nothing has reality until you reach it, grab it, and somehow impregnate it with the power of belief.
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Belief Consciousness Moving Power Reality Thought
Self-inquiry is a spiritually induced form of wintertime. It’s not about looking for a right answer so much as stripping away and letting you see what is not necessary, what you can do without, what you are without your leaves.
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Answer Inquiry Looking Right Self Spirituality Stripping Wintertime
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
You must want to know the truth more than you want to feel secure in order to fully awaken to the fact that you are nothing but Awakeness itself.
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Awaken Awakening Fact Feel Feeling Good More Order Secure Want
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
Freedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom.
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Disappearance Freedom Searching Soul
The Buddha’s insight into the middle way is not simply about a balance between extremes. This conventional understanding misses the deeper revelation of the middle way as being the very nature of unexcelled enlightenment.
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Balance Buddha Convention Extreme Insight Middle Mind Missing Simply Understand Understanding
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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Based Believe Delusion Mind Ourselves Talking
Awareness isn’t something we own; awareness isn’t something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.
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Actually Awareness Happen Possess Something
Nothingness is an absolute infinite potential, not an empty box.
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Absolute Boxes Empty Infinite Nothingness Potential
The proof of the depth and embodiment of your realization will be seen in your love relationship. That’s where the proof is in the pudding. If it all collapses in your relationship, you have some work to do. And people do have a lot of difficulties in their relationships.
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Depth Embodiment Love People Realization Realize Relationship Seen

Have you noticed, with whatever quality of love you have experienced, that when true love arises, it opens up both your mind and emotions? It’s an openness to whatever is happening.

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Have you noticed, with whatever quality of love you have experienced, that when true love arises, it opens up both your mind and emotions? It’s an openness to whatever is happening.

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