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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.

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The separate self is just the conglomeration of these opposing forces. When the self drops away, inner division drops away with it.
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Away Conglomeration Division Force Opoosote Separate
There is a very Simple Secret to being happy. Just let go of your ‘demand’ on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering.
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Demand Dream Go Happy Letting Secret Simple Time
An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.
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Being Common Enlightened Express Freedom Man Ordinary Seek
You must choose between your attachments and happiness.
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Attachment Happiness Must Choose Positive Selected Thinking
Embrace suffering, and you transform your relationship with what causes you to suffer, as well as your relationship with suffering itself.
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Cause Embrace Goal Relationship Suffer Suffering Transform
Enlightenment is a destructive process.
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Destructive Enlightenment Process
Eventually, in the state of liberation, meditation will simply become your natural condition.
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Condition Eventuality Liberation Meditation Natural
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
Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?
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Buddha Everything Find Going Nature Since Supreme
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
I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn’t exist?
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Ask Avoiding Enlightenment Invite Moment Present
To be here, all you have to do is let go of who you think you are. That’s all! And then you realize, “I’m here.” Here is where thoughts aren’t believed. Every time you come here, you are nothing.
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Go Here Integrity Letting Realize Thinking Time Zero
At each moment we are expressing what we know ourselves to be. If we know ourselves very little we will express and manifest that unconsciousness of our true nature.
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Each Express Expressing Little Moment Ourselves Simple
True sincerity reveals a powerful form of clarity and discernment that is necessary in order to perceive yourself honestly without flinching or being held captive by your conditioned mind’s judgments and defensiveness.
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Discernment Mind Necessary Order Perceive Powerful Sincerely Yourself
Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn’t exist?
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Asking Distant Enlightenment Goal Invite Reach Separation Stop Striving
Life itself is nothing but relationship.
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Inspirational Life Itself Nothing

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