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Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.

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What you run away from owns you. You are the dog on a leash. The most you can do is to tug against the leash.
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Against Away Dog Leashes Own Run Running Tug
The body is a sensing instrument of consciousness. Without the body and mind, the trees could not see themselves.
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Body Consciousness Instrument Mind Sensing Think Thinking Tree
When you let go of the egoic self what you’re getting in exchange is the whole universe.
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exchange Go Letting Self Universe Whole
Everybody is free to be as they are. Until the whole world is free to agree with you or disagree with you, until you have given the freedom to everyone to like you or not like you, to love you or hate you,
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Agree Disagree Everybody Freedom Given Like Until
If you filter my words through any tradition or ‘-ism’, you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is not static; it is alive. It cannot be put into concepts and be understood by the mind.
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Filter Liberating Lying Mind Missing Saying Tradition Truth
It simply means that if this desire to feel good is stronger than the yearning to see, know, and experience Truth, then this desire will always be distorting the perception of what is Real, while corrupting one’s deepest integrity.
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Desire Experience Feel Perception Simply Stronger Yeaning
Gratitude is the appreciation of what is, of life, of existence, of anybody and anything, for just the way it is.
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Anybody Appreciate Appreciation Existence Gratitude Way
In the end it’s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t.
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End Giving Ourselves Silence Simple
The world’s problems are, by and large, human problems-the unavoidable consequence of egoic sleepwalking. If we care to look, all the signs are present to suggest that we are not only sleepwalking, but at times borderline insane as well.
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Consequence Egoic Human Insane Large Look Problem Sleepwalking Unavoidable World
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
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
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
When a group of people come together as a response to that kind of inward call, it creates a very powerful environment, where truth is held in the highest esteem and the reality of our being responds to that deepest intention.
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Ego Environment Esteem Highest People Response Together
As long as you perceive that anyone is holding you back, you have not taken full responsibility for your own liberation. Liberation means that you stand free of making demands on others and life to make you happy.
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Holding Liberation Long Mean Perceive Responsibility Taken
To be free of fear is to be full of Love.
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Free Full Love
All delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we’re talking to ourselves and then believing what we are saying.
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Based Believe Delusion Mind Ourselves Talking

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