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When someone tells you, ‘I love you,’ and then you feel, ‘Oh, I must be worthy after all,’ that’s an illusion. That’s not true. Or someone says, ‘I hate you,’ and you think, ‘Oh, God, I knew it; I’m not very worthy,’ that’s not true either.

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Trying to maintain a pleasant state and avoid an unpleasant state is actually the cause of sorrow. When you stop resisting, you see that what seems frightening is actually the absolute beauty of reality.
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Hurt Love Maintain Reality Sorrow State Unpleasant
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
True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.
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Desire True Freedom
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
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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What would happen if you were to allow everything to be exactly as it is? If you gave up the need for control, and instead embraced the whole of your experience in each moment that arose?
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Allow Anything Control Exactly Meditation Moment Need
You can’t look at what’s looking. You can’t think about that which is prior to thought.
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Look Looking Prior Think Thinking Thought
The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.
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Emptiness Intricacies Love Most Spiritual Theologies Thing Truth
You don’t awaken, what has eternally been awake realizes itself. That which is eternally awake is what you are.
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Aggrandizing Awaken Confident Feel Puffed React Story
What you run away from owns you. You are the dog on a leash. The most you can do is to tug against the leash.
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Against Away Dog Leashes Own Run Running Tug
In the heart of a human being, emptiness becomes love. When we touch that Source, instantly the love is present. Literally, the divine becomes human and the human becomes divine.
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Concept Fixating Free Heart Hold Human Love Emptiness
The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. When you start to see the light that you really are, the light waking up in you, the radiance, you realize it has no intention to change you.
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Anything Consciousness Light Mind Running Start
This movement of grasping and aversion gives rise to a sense of a separate ‘me,’ and in turn the sense of ‘me’ strengthens itself this way.
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Aversion Grasping Movement Rise Sense Separate Strengthens
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
There is no security in freedom, at least not in the sense that we normally think of security. This is, of course, why it is so free: there’s nothing there to grab hold of.
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Absolute Freedom Normally Nothing Safely Security
The unknown, our own true nature, has the capacity to wake itself up when you start to fall in love with letting go of all the mental structures you hold onto. Contemplate this: there is no such thing as a true belief.
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Capasitymitself Fall Go Letting Nature Spiritual True Unknown Wisdom

When someone tells you, ‘I love you,’ and then you feel, ‘Oh, I must be worthy after all,’ that’s an illusion. That’s not true. Or someone says, ‘I hate you,’ and you think, ‘Oh, God, I knew it; I’m not very worthy,’ that’s not true either.

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When someone tells you, ‘I love you,’ and then you feel, ‘Oh, I must be worthy after all,’ that’s an illusion. That’s not true. Or someone says, ‘I hate you,’ and you think, ‘Oh, God, I knew it; I’m not very worthy,’ that’s not true either.

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