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Whatever you resist, persists.

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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
The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.
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Already Believe Seeking Truth
At each moment we are expressing what we know ourselves to be. If we know ourselves very little we will express and manifest that unconsciousness of our true nature.
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Each Express Expressing Little Moment Ourselves Simple
You will only lose when you resist reality; you will only struggle when you disagree with what is.
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Disagree Lose Loses Reality Resist Struggle
We must leave the entire collection of conditioned thought behind and let ourselves be led by the inner thread of silence into the unknown, beyond where all paths end, to that place where we go innocently or not at all, not once but continually.
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Behind Collection End Entire Inner Ourselves Path Silence
Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering.
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Anger Angry Confused Resist Sad Sadness
As you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind’s compulsive control, contractions, and identifications.
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Awareness Control Knowing Mind Profoundly Return
We must become expressions of, not consumers of, realization.
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Become Consumer Expression Must Realization
This simply strengthens the ego. In fact, such conclusions arise from the ego itself. Pay no attention to them. Don’t go to war with yourself; simply inquire into who you are.
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Attention Conclusion Ego Enquire Fact Pay Simply Strengthens
Freedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom.
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Disappearance Freedom Searching Soul
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
You’re willing to realize that maybe everything you’ve ever thought about yourself really isn’t true.
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Everything Realize True Willing
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
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
A meditative mind is at ease because it’s not trying to acquire anything.
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Anything Aquire Ease Meditative Mind Trying
There’s a fierceness about life that calls for a fierceness to not anxiously solve it but to allow it to transform you.
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Allow Anxiously Call Fierceness Solve Transform

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