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Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.

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Most human beings spend their lives battling with opposing inner forces: what they think they should do versus what they are doing; how they feel about themselves versus how they are; whether they think they’re right and worthy or wrong and unworthy.
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Batting Division Force Human Opposing Self Thinking Versus
The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?
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Ask Intimate Most Power Question Self Spiritual
Many people think that it is the function of a spiritual teaching to provide answers to life’s biggest questions, but actually, the opposite is true. The primary task of any good spiritual teaching is not to answer your questions, but to question your answers.
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Biggest Many People Provide Question Spiritual Teaching Thinking
Meditation is not a technique to master; it is the highest form of prayer, a naked act of love and effortless surrender into the silent abyss beyond all knowing
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Act Highest Knowing Meditation Naked Prayer
You must choose between your attachments and happiness.
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Attachment Happiness Must Choose Positive Selected Thinking
To be free of fear is to be full of Love.
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Free Full Love
Most human beings have an imprinting that if they’re real, if they’re honest, somebody’s not gonna like it. And they won’t be able to control their environment if they tell the truth.
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Control Environment Honest Human Imprinting Somebody Truth
As if it were their job to be nice to you, you put yourself at odds with what is, and suffering will surely follow.
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Follow Job Od Suffer Surely Yourself
If we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn’t that what silence is? It’s a listening, a deep wordless listening.
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Around Conditioned Deeply Listen Listening Look Silence
It is one thing to touch a flame and know it is hot, but quite another to jump into that flame and be consumed by it.
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Another Burning Consumed Flame Hot Jump Quite Touch
Stop all delays, all seeking and all striving. Put down your concepts, ideas and beliefs. For one instant be still and directly encounter the silent unknown core of your being. In that instant Freedom will embrace you and reveal the Awakening that you are.
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Concept Delay Encounters Idea Instant Down Stop
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
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
Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control. This is meditation. Anything else is actually a form of concentration. Meditation and concentration are two different things. Concentration is a discipline.
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Anything Control Go Letting Mastering Meditation Real Technique Two
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

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