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Stop all doing and be still. Let the fire of stillness burn everything and reveal That which is Openness.

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Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.
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Absolute Abyss Awareness Knowing Naturally Potential Return State
So most of us human beings have a very deep underlying conditioning that says that just to be who we are is not OK…….
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Conditioning Deep Human Most OK Underlying
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
Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true. It is the way Life suggests that you are not in harmony with what is.
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Misperceiving Real Resisting Suffering Tell True Way
Whatever you can become will ultimately be destroyed. Only what you already are can’t be taken away.
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Already Away Destroyed Taken Ultimately
The you who is chasing enlightenment will never become enlightened. Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach,
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Chasing Distant Enlightenment Instead Arriving never Reach Toward
What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.
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Appreciate Appreciation Attention Freedom Holding Living Meditation
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
At first it seems as if begoing follows becoming. But look even closer and you will see that there are only flashes of lightning illuminating the empty sky.
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Becoming Begging Closer First Flashes Follow Journey Seem Sky
The truth is that you already are what you are seeking. You are looking for God with his eyes. I suggest you ask, “What’s ultimately behind this set of eyes?” Turn around to see what is looking.
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Already Ask Eye God Looking Suggest Truth Turn
When the eternal and the human meet, that’s where love is born — not through escaping our humanity or trying to disappear into transcendence, but through finding that place where they come into union.
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Born Escaping Eternal Human Humanity Love Meet
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
The important thing is allowing the whole world to wake up. Part of allowing the whole world to wake up is recognizing that the whole world is free,
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Allowing Hate Important Love Recognization Wake Whole World You
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
Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.
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Awareness Being Cease Comprise Pure Pursuit Recognize
Neither one of these thoughts hold any intrinsic reality. They are an overlay. 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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Illusion Neither OK One Someone Something Tell True

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