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Let go of all ideas and images in your mind, they come and go and aren’t even generated by you. So why pay so much attention to your imagination when reality is for the realizing right now?

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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
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
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
Awareness isn’t something we own; awareness isn’t something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.
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Actually Awareness Happen Possess Something
Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true. It is the way Life suggests that you are not in harmony with what is.
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Misperceiving Real Resisting Suffering Tell True Way
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
You think that enlightenment is something other than what is happening right now. This is your primary mistake.
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Enlightenment Happening Mistake Now Primary Right Thinking
Awakening to the truth is a deep realization of what you are as an experience. What is it that is listening? What is it that is feeling? Feel it. Sense it. Welcome it.
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Awakening Deep Experience Feeling Listening Truth
If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume your mind’s clothing with more sooty knowledge.
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Burning Clothing Fire Intend Leave Mind Perfume Prefer
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
The truth lies beyond all forms of conceptual fundamentalism. What you are is the beyond—awake and present, here and now already. I am simply helping you to realize that.
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Beyond Conceptual Fundamental Helping Realize Truth
This does not mean that feeling good or experiencing love and bliss is a bad thing. Given the choice, anyone would choose to feel bliss rather than sorrow.
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Bad Bliss Experiencing Good Mean Rather Simply Sorrow Thing
You must choose between your attachments and happiness.
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Attachment Happiness Must Choose Positive Selected Thinking
With this love you can feel the walls of opposition come down naturally in the acknowledgement of deep connection. Not only do the walls of opposition fall, but love is felt for every human being and for life itself.
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Acknowledgement Connection Deep Love Naturally Opposition
Actually, all paths lead away from the truth…how’s that? All paths. There’s no such thing as a path to the truth. The truth’s already here, where are you going?
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Actually Fade Idea Image Path Such Thing
You’re willing to realize that maybe everything you’ve ever thought about yourself really isn’t true.
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Everything Realize True Willing

Let go of all ideas and images in your mind, they come and go and aren’t even generated by you. So why pay so much attention to your imagination when reality is for the realizing right now?

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Let go of all ideas and images in your mind, they come and go and aren’t even generated by you. So why pay so much attention to your imagination when reality is for the realizing right now?

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