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True sincerity reveals a powerful form of clarity and discernment that is necessary in order to perceive yourself honestly without flinching or being held captive by your conditioned mind’s judgments and defensiveness.

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Freedom and Love arise when you die into the unknown mystery of being.
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Arise Freedom Living Love Mystery Unknown
The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. When you start to see the light that you really are, the light waking up in you, the radiance, you realize it has no intention to change you.
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Anything Consciousness Light Mind Running Start
Now don’t think that awakening is the end. Awakening is the end of seeking, the end of the seeker, but it is the beginning of a life lived from your true nature.
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Awakening End Life Seek Seeker Thinking
There’s something more to life than what we see on the surface.
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Life More See Something Surface
It is good to remember that the goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.
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Buddha Buddhist Christian Christianity Create Goal Good Remember Teaching
If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.
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Deepest Live Living Manifest Moment Realizing Revelation Split
Neither one of these thoughts hold any intrinsic reality. They are an overlay. When someone says, ‘I love you,’ he is telling you about himself, not you. When someone says, ‘I hate you,’ she is telling you about herself, not you. World views are self views-literally.
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Illusion Neither OK One Someone Something Tell True
Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.
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Box Compassion Empty Frantic Infinite Life
What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make through personal investigation.
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Able Discovery Matter Mimic People Practice Spiritual Spirituality
The truth is that you already are what you are seeking. You are looking for God with his eyes. I suggest you ask, “What’s ultimately behind this set of eyes?” Turn around to see what is looking.
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Already Ask Eye God Looking Suggest Truth Turn
True Meditation is the space in which everything gets revealed, everything gets seen, everything gets experienced. And as such, it lets go of itself. We don’t even let go. It lets go of itself.
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Everything Experienced Let Go Meditation Revealed Seen Space True
When someone tells you, ‘I love you,’ and then you feel, ‘Oh, I must be worthy after all,’ that’s an illusion. That’s not true. Or someone says, ‘I hate you,’ and you think, ‘Oh, God, I knew it; I’m not very worthy,’ that’s not true either.
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Feel Hate Illusion Lov Someone Tell Uplifting You
Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness
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Consciousness Enlightenment State
Gratitude is the appreciation of what is, of life, of existence, of anybody and anything, for just the way it is.
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Anybody Appreciate Appreciation Existence Gratitude Way
As I often tell my students, the person you’ll have the hardest time opening to and truly loving without reserve is yourself. Once you can do that, you can love the whole universe unconditionally.
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Hardest Loving Often Opening Person Reserve Student Time
Feel your way into what I am saying rather than thinking about it. Only a self-concept looks and longs for God. Drop your self-concept and there is only God meeting God. Enlightenment is the restoration of cosmic humor.
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Concept Enlightenment Fascinated God Looking Rather Self

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