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As if some dreadful fate would overcome us if we were to face the pure light of truth and lay bare our fearful clinging to illusion.

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The silence inside of you is the sound of your knowledge collapsing. Remember, it is you who said, ‘I want to be free.’
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Collapsing Inside Knowledge Remember Silence Sound Want Wanted
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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Actually Anger Certain Confusion Resist Think Whatever
We need to see each moment of apparent bondage as an invitation to freedom. Then it becomes an act of love, an act of compassion, to stop running away.
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Apparent Bondage Compassion Freedom Invitation Need Running Stop
True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.
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Direction Goal Meditation Prayer Pure Silent Surrender Wordless
Love moves without an agenda. It just moves because that is its nature to move.
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Agenda Love Move Moving Natural Nature
No one can give you the strength of character necessary… Only you can find that passion within that burns with an integrity that will not settle for anything less than the Truth.
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Burn Character Integrity Necessary Passion Strength
Actually, all paths lead away from the truth…how’s that? All paths. There’s no such thing as a path to the truth. The truth’s already here, where are you going?
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Actually Fade Idea Image Path Such Thing
There is, quite literally, nothing to understand.
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Literally Nothing Quite Understand
As I often tell my students, the person you’ll have the hardest time opening to and truly loving without reserve is yourself. Once you can do that, you can love the whole universe unconditionally.
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Hardest Loving Often Opening Person Reserve Student Time
I often describe the Absolute as Pure Infinite Potential, prior to being or becoming anything. It is forever unborn, yet gives birth to all of existence. About our ultimate nature nothing can be said; it must be revealed.
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Anything Becoming Forever Giving Infinite Potential Prior Unborn
When we really start to take a look at who we think we are, we become very grace prone.
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Grace Look Prone Reality Self Start Thinking
Once again, we find ourselves back in the unknown – not in the idea of the unknown, but in the lived reality of it. It’s the mind humbled, on its knees, with bare feet and free of the known.
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Back Free Known Life Lived Ourselves Suggest
In a certain sense, if I have an idea about you that I believe, I’ve degraded you. I’ve made you into something very small. This is the way of human beings, this is what we do to each other.
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Being Belive Certain Degraded Each Human Idea Made Other Sense Small Something
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
It is good to remember that 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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Buddha Buddhist Christian Christianity Create Goal Good Remember Teaching
When you rest deeply in the Unknown without trying to escape, your experience becomes very vast. As the experience of the Unknown deepens, your boundaries begin to dissolve. You realize, not just intellectually but on a deep level, that you have no idea who or what you are.
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Deeply Escape Experience Ideas Knowing Personality

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