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Be a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don’t expect it to be easy or even noticed.

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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
If you have any image of what the Truth is, slay it immediately because that’s not it.
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Image Immediately Truth Worth
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
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
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 most difficult thing for spiritual seekers to do is to stop struggling, striving, seeking, and searching. Why? Because in the absence of struggle you don’t know who you are; you lose your boundaries.
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Difficult Dream Life Searching Seeker Spiritual Struggling
Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.
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Belief Concept Few Freedom Idea People Truly
Our yearning for truth actually comes from truth.
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Actually Awakening Come Truly Truth Yearning
Relaxing into not knowing is almost like surrendering into a big, comfortable chair; you just fall into a field of possibility.
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Almost Comfortable Fall Knowing Possibility Relaxing Surrounding
Nobody can give us what we really already are. Wouldn’t it be terrible if somebody could give you what you really are? …’cause if they could give it to you, they could take it away.
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Already Causes Giving Knowledge Nobody Somebody Terrible
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
As you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind’s compulsive control, contractions, and identifications.
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Awareness Control Knowing Mind Profoundly Return
It authenticates itself. Something inside us knows. This…is what has been sought for, longed for, looked for. This is it. Usually, it’s not what we expected.
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Authenticate Expected Longed Looked Something Sought Usually
There is, quite literally, nothing to understand.
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Literally Nothing Quite Understand
If you tell yourself a sad story, the body reacts to that. And if you tell yourself a self-aggrandizing story, the body feels puffed up, confident. But when you realize it’s all stories, there can be a vast waking up out of the mind, out of the dream.
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Aggrandizing Dream Mind Self Stories Story

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