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Thoughts in your head are really no different than the sound of a bird outside. It is just that you decide that they are more or less relevant.

Adyashanti

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
When you abide and accept everything completely and fully, you automatically go beyond.
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Abide Accept Automatic Beyond Everything Fully
As you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind’s compulsive control, contractions, and identifications.
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Awareness Control Knowing Mind Profoundly Return
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
In the same vein, my teachings are not meant to acquire followers or imitators, but to awaken beings to eternal truth and thus to awakened life and living.
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Acquire Awakened Eternal Follower Initiator Living Teaching
There is profound responsibility in being Love… more than the mind could imagine or hold up under. If most human beings truly realized the impact that they have on the whole, they’d be crushed by the realization of it.
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Being Hold Human Imagine Impact Profound Responsibility Responsible Under
That there is nothing to support, that the whole ego experience was a flimsy illusion. So you stand alone but are never, never lonely because everywhere you look, all you see is That, and you are That.
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Alone Ego Everywhere Experience Flimsy Illusion Lonely never Support Whole
When we really start to take a look at who we think we are… we start to see that while we may have various thoughts, beliefs, and identities, they do not individually or collectively tell us who we are.
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Feeling Look Mind Start Think Thinking Thought Various
Ego is the movement of the mind toward objects of perception in the form of grasping, and away from objects in the form of aversion. This fundamentally is all the ego is.
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Away Ego Giving Grasping Mind Object Perception
Many spiritual people are involved in a radical denial of what is happening. They want to transcend it, get rid of it, get out of it, get away from it. There’s nothing wrong with that feeling, but the approach doesn’t work because it’s escapism in spiritual clothing.
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Happening Involved Pain People Radical Spiritual
Nothing appears to be something. The human experience is a senseory organ for the divine self. Through these eyes, the divine gets to see itself in form.
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Appear Awareness Devine Experience Eye Human Self Sensory
Inherent in the impulse to be free, is insecurity. The impulse to be free comes from outside of the mind, and because of this, it makes the mind feel very insecure.
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Come Impulse Insecure Internet Mind Moving Outside Spiritual
When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.
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Emptiness Eternity Love Move Moving Still
[And yet] it is astounding how completely we humans define ourselves by the content of our minds, feelings, and history.
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Astounding Completely Content Define Feeling History Mind Ourselves
True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.
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Direction Goal Meditation Prayer Pure Silent Surrender Wordless
When you get out of the driver’s seat, you find that life can drive itself, that actually life has always been driving itself. When you get out of the driver’s seat, it can drive itself so much easier-it can flow in ways you never imagined.
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Actually Always Driver Driving Flow Itself Life Seat Way

Thoughts in your head are really no different than the sound of a bird outside. It is just that you decide that they are more or less relevant.

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