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If you resist confusion,you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them.

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The moment that you are willing to step outside of tomorrow, outside of needing more time, or having more time, everything becomes possible. And you may finally notice where the Buddha has always been.
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Having May Moment More Needing Outside Step Time Tomorrow Willing
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
We think there’s someplace other than here to get to—that’s what drives the whole pursuit.
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Pursuit Self Someplace Think Thinking Truth
There is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.
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Apart Conscious Consciousness Individual
Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, 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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Asking Distant Enlightenment Goal Invite Reach Separation Stop Striving
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
You’ll have more love than you know what to do with. Whatever you are inside, you receive a thousandfold on the outside.
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Fold Inside Love More Outside Recieve Thousand
Retreat is a response to the call of the heart-that call which beckons us toward reality, to the truth of our being, to that which is truly sane, really real and liberating …
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Beckon Being Heart Powerful Real Reality Response Retreat Toward Truth
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
To see things as you see them or to see things differently—until you have given the whole world its freedom—you’ll never have your freedom.
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Differently Freedom Given Think Whole
This movement of grasping and aversion gives rise to a sense of a separate ‘me,’ and in turn the sense of ‘me’ strengthens itself this way.
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Aversion Grasping Movement Rise Sense Separate Strengthens
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
The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears.
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Accepted Disappear Paradox Resistance
True love has nothing to do with liking someone, agreeing with him or her or being compatible. It is a love of unity, a love of seeing God wearing all the masks, and recognising itself in them all..
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Agree Compatible Fall Love Nothing Strength Unity Wall You
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
Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.
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Death Dress Dresses Meditation Rehearsal

If you resist confusion,you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them.

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If you resist confusion,you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them.

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