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[And yet] it is astounding how completely we humans define ourselves by the content of our minds, feelings, and history.

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Love causes us to be deeply connected in an unspoken way. It happens when we’re really available, really open.
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Available Cause Connected Deeply Happen Open Really Unspoken Way
We need to see each moment of apparent bondage as an invitation to freedom. Then it becomes an act of love, an act of compassion, to stop running away.
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Apparent Bondage Compassion Freedom Invitation Need Running Stop
This moment in which you experience stillness is every moment. Don’t let the mind seduce you into the past or future. Stay in the moment, and dare to consider that you can be free now.
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Experience Future Mind Moment Past Seduce Stillness
What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.
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Appreciate Appreciation Attention Freedom Holding Living Meditation
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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Discernment Mind Necessary Order Perceive Powerful Sincerely Yourself
To remain unconscious of being is to remain asleep to our own reality and therefore asleep to reality at large. The choice is simple: awaken to being or sleep an endless sleep.
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Asleep Choice Endless Large Reality Remain Sleep Unconcious
The aim of my teaching is enlightenment, awakening from the dream state of separateness into the reality of the One. In short, my teaching is focused on realizing what you are.
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Awakening Dream Enlightenment Reality Separateness Teaching
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
The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.
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Actually Awakening Ego Freedom Irrelevant Nonexistent Ultimate
Stop all doing and be still. Let the fire of stillness burn everything and reveal That which is Openness.
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Doing Everything Fire Openness Reveal Still Stop
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
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
Whenever you aren’t manipulating your experience, you’re meditating. As soon as you meditate because you think you should, you’re controlling your experience again, and you’ve squeezed all the value out of your meditation.
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Experience Manipulating Meditating Meditation Think Thinking
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
If we know who and what we are very thoroughly, we will express and manifest that in what we do. It is all very simple.
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Express Know Manifest Simple Thoroughly Very
Truth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is discovered minute to minute or not at all.
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[And yet] it is astounding how completely we humans define ourselves by the content of our minds, feelings, and history.

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