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Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully.

Adyashanti

To be here, all you have to do is let go of who you think you are. That’s all! And then you realize, “I’m here.” Here is where thoughts aren’t believed. Every time you come here, you are nothing.
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Go Here Integrity Letting Realize Thinking Time Zero
You will only lose when you resist reality; you will only struggle when you disagree with what is.
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Disagree Lose Loses Reality Resist Struggle
It is in the absolute surrender of all conditions and requirements that Liberation is discovered to be who and what you are. Then the love and wisdom that flows out of you has a liberating effect on others.
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Absolute Condition Effect Liberating Love Requirement Surrender Wisdom
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
The goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.
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Buddhism Buddhist Christian Christianity Create Created
Grace is something that comes to us when we somehow find ourselves completely available, when we become openhearted and open-minded, and are willing to entertain the possibility that we may not know what we think we know.
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Available Completely Grace May Ourselves Thinking
The Way of Liberation is not a belief system; it is something to be put into practice.
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Belief Liberation Practice Put Something System Way
Feel this moment, see it with a willingness to experience it deeply, whether it be good, bad, or indifferent. Emotionally and feelingly be fully present, right here, vulnerable, with your heart. Just be present. Don’t live from your conditioned mind, live from unconditional truth.
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Bad Emotional Feel Good Heart Indifferent Mind Moment Vulnerable
Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control.
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Control Go Letting Mastering Meditation Real
To pause for just a moment and realize that maybe you aren’t who you imagine yourself to be.
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Imagine Moment Pause Realize Yourself
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
Many spiritual people are involved in a radical denial of what is happening. They want to transcend it, get rid of it, get out of it, get away from it. There’s nothing wrong with that feeling, but the approach doesn’t work because it’s escapism in spiritual clothing.
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Happening Involved Pain People Radical Spiritual
The separate self is just the conglomeration of these opposing forces. When the self drops away, inner division drops away with it.
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Away Conglomeration Division Force Opoosote Separate
Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretence. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.
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Anger Crumbling Enlightenment Eradication Everything Imagined Pretence
[And yet] it is astounding how completely we humans define ourselves by the content of our minds, feelings, and history.
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Astounding Completely Content Define Feeling History Mind Ourselves
This does not mean that feeling good or experiencing love and bliss is a bad thing. Given the choice, anyone would choose to feel bliss rather than sorrow.
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Bad Bliss Experiencing Good Mean Rather Simply Sorrow Thing

Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully.

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Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully.

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