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Many Sages have said, “Your world is a dream. You’re living in an illusion.” They’re referring to this world of the mind and the way we believe our thoughts about reality.

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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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Based Believe Delusion Mind Ourselves Talking
I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn’t exist?
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Ask Avoiding Enlightenment Invite Moment Present
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
To find out that you are empty of emptiness is to die into an aware mystery, which is the source of all existence.
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Die Emptiness Empty Existence Mystery Source
You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.
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Consciously Figure Greatest Incredible Joy Mystery
The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.
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Challenge Most Seeker Spiritual Struggle Struggling
Our illusions-the beliefs we hold on to-are the very doorways to our freedom. We simply have to enter through them without grasping or pushing away. We must not believe them, but we must not run away from them either.
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Belief Believe Compassion Doorway Enter Freedom Illusion Running Simply
Grace is something that comes to us when we somehow find ourselves completely available, when we become openhearted and open-minded, and are willing to entertain the possibility that we may not know what we think we know.
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Available Completely Grace May Ourselves Thinking
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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Arise Experienced Love Mind Notices Quality True
Has it ever occurred to you that you are seeking God with His eyes?
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Ever Eyes Occurred Seek Seeking God
Most spiritual seekers move away from this insecurity by seeking and striving for a distant spiritual goal. That’s how they avoid feeling insecure.
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Feeling Insecure Most Move Seeker Spiritual Striving
Eventually, in the state of liberation, meditation will simply become your natural condition.
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Condition Eventuality Liberation Meditation Natural
If you think that people should be nice to one another, then by all means be nice. But when you project that belief onto the people and the world around you as if it were an objective reality, or worse still.
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Another Belief Job Mean Nice One Project Think
Life sustains itself. Let go of the ego and life takes care of itself through you.
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Care Ego Itself Letting Go Life Sustain
Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.
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Cannot Conspiracy Helping Misery Need Resistance Survive
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

Many Sages have said, “Your world is a dream. You’re living in an illusion.” They’re referring to this world of the mind and the way we believe our thoughts about reality.

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Many Sages have said, “Your world is a dream. You’re living in an illusion.” They’re referring to this world of the mind and the way we believe our thoughts about reality.

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