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When we’re in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose.

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We realize–often quite suddenly–that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who we are. It doesn’t define us, it has no center.
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Constructed Formed Idea Quite Realize Self Sense Suddenly
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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Bare Dreadful Fearful Illusion Light Overcome Pure Some
My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.
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Awake Awakening Better Dream Meant Shake Speaking
Silence and stillness are not states and therefore cannot be produced or created. Silence is the non-state in which all states arise and subside. Silence, stillness and awareness are not states and can never be perceived in their totality as objects.
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Created Meditation Mind Produced Silence Stillness
Refuse to disconnect from love and every relationship will be totally transformed; even the relationship with yourself.
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Disconnect Even Refuse Relationship Totally Transformed Yourself
Enlightenment is a destructive process.
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Destructive Enlightenment Process
Completion comes when we not just wake up from all form, from all identification, but when love causes us to re-embrace it all.
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Cause Come Completion Embrace Identification Up Wake
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
As soon as the mind pulls out an agenda and decides what needs to change, that’s unreality. Life doesn’t need to decide who’s right and who’s wrong. Life doesn’t need to know the “right” way to go because it’s going there anyway.
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Agenda Change Decide Life Mind Need Pull Soon Unreality
How do I integrate spirituality into my everyday life? Throw out the concept of “spiritual life” and “everyday life.” There is only life, undivided and whole.
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Everyday Integrate Integrating Life Spiritual
At any moment, we are either giving humanity the gift of our clarity or our confusion. And that clarity or confusion is affecting the humanity around us, the world around us. It is manifesting. It is taking form.
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Clarity Confusion Gift Giving Humanity Moment
Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.
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Only Silence Teacher Teaching Time
The biggest embrace of love you’ll ever make is to embrace yourself completely. Then you’ll realize you’ve just embraced the whole universe, and everything and everybody in it.
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Biggest Completely Embrace Love Realize Realizing Universe
When you discover yourself to be nothing but Freedom, you stop setting up conditions and requirements that need to be satisfied in order for you to be happy.
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Anyone Condition Discover Freedom Happy Holding Requirement Satisfied Setting Yourself
Love causes us to be deeply connected in an unspoken way. It happens when we’re really available, really open.
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Available Cause Connected Deeply Happen Open Really Unspoken Way
The truth is you can’t try to let go. Trying is the opposite of letting go. To let go is to relinquish trying. To let go is much more like to let be.
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Go Letting Opposite Opposites Relinquish Truth Trying

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