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A meditative mind is at ease because it’s not trying to acquire anything.

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When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are. When I have a thought about you, that’s something I’ve created. I’ve turned you into an idea.
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Believe Experience Idea Other Really Thought World
Cessation of struggle is like free falling through space without a care in the world.
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Care Cessation Fall Falling Free Space Struggle World
Take one step backward into the unknown.
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Backward One Step Take Unknown
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
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
Doubt is always accompanied by a pervasive cynicism that unconsciously puts a negative spin on whatever it touches.
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Accomplained Always Cynicism Doubt Negative Spin Touch Unconsciously
Spirituality does not require that you work hard toward achieving a result in the future as much as it requires you to be fully present.
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Achieving Future Go Hard Honesty Letting Require Spirituality Work
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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Air Aquire Breathe Health Knowledge Life Love Lung Order Wisdom
Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.
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Being Enlightenment Mean Truly Waking
There’s a fierceness about life that calls for a fierceness to not anxiously solve it but to allow it to transform you.
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Allow Anxiously Call Fierceness Solve Transform
Imagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.
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Come Imagine Silence Trusting Up
When you inquire ‘Who am I?’ if you are honest, you’ll notice that it takes you right back to silence instantly. The brain doesn’t have an answer, so all of a sudden there is silence.
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Answer Brain Honest Inquire Instantly Notice Silence
What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make through personal investigation.
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Able Discovery Matter Mimic People Practice Spiritual Spirituality
Ego is neither positive nor negative. Those are simply concepts that create more boundaries. Ego is just ego, and the disaster of it all is that you, as a spiritual seeker, have been conditioned to think of the ego as bad, as an enemy, as something to be destroyed.
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Boundaries Concept Create Ego Positive Spiritual Thinking War
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
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

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