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You’re Arguing with ‘What Is’ – Your demands keep you chained to the ‘dream-state’ of the conditioned mind. The desire to ‘control’… is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake.

Adyashanti

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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Elsewhere Hate Love Self Someone Wanted
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
True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.
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Direction Goal Meditation Prayer Pure Silent Surrender Wordless
Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.
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Being End Enlightenment More Natural Nothing State
That there is nothing to support, that the whole ego experience was a flimsy illusion. So you stand alone but are never, never lonely because everywhere you look, all you see is That, and you are That.
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Alone Ego Everywhere Experience Flimsy Illusion Lonely never Support Whole
All is always well even when it seems unbelievably unwell.
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Always Seem Unbelievably Unwell Wells
Enlightenment is the natural state of consciousness, the innocent state of consciousness, that state which is uncontaminated by the movement of thought, uncontaminated by control or manipulation of mind.
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Consciousness Enlightenment Innocent Mind Movement State
All we really want in the end is to be connected once again with the Truth of our being, to realize what it is that wears this mask of self.
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Again Connected Reality Realize Realizing Self Truth Want
The mind may accept or deny that you are awareness, but either way it can’t really understand. It cannot comprehend. Thought cannot comprehend what is beyond thought.
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Accept Awareness Comprehensive May Mind Understand Way
When you realize what you are now, the issue of death will solve itself.
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Death Issue Itself Now Realize Realizing Solve
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
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
The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.
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Being Heart Life Lover True
Until we start to see these false perceptions for what they really are, consciousness will be imprisoned within the dream state.
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Consciousness Deam False Imprisoned Perception Really State
Serving the Truth becomes our life instead of just an isolated event. It takes the abstractness out of spirituality. That’s the opportunity of real spirituality: to be in service to the silence of the heart.
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Abstractness Heart Instead Isolated Opportunity Real Serving Spirituality
In liberation, you stand alone. You stand alone because you need no supports of any kind. You need no supports because you have realized that the very notion of a separate you no longer exists.
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Ego Liberation Lonely Stand Support

You’re Arguing with ‘What Is’ – Your demands keep you chained to the ‘dream-state’ of the conditioned mind. The desire to ‘control’… is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake.

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