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Imagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.

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True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.
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Derive Doe Intelligence Thinking Thought Use Uses
Until we start to see these false perceptions for what they really are, consciousness will be imprisoned within the dream state.
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Consciousness Deam False Imprisoned Perception Really State
The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.
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Already Believe Seeking Truth
The most difficult thing for spiritual seekers to do is to stop struggling, striving, seeking, and searching. Why? Because in the absence of struggle you don’t know who you are; you lose your boundaries.
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Difficult Dream Life Searching Seeker Spiritual Struggling
If you resist confusion,you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them.
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Actually Anger Certain Confusion Resist Think Whatever
When you stand in your own authority, based in your own direct experience, you meet that ultimate mystery that you are. Even though it may be at first unsettling to look into your own no-thingness.
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Authority Based May Mystery Stand Suffering Ultimate Want
The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but it does change.
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Anything Change Consciousness Light Mind Need Sense
Whatever you can become will ultimately be destroyed. Only what you already are can’t be taken away.
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Already Away Destroyed Taken Ultimately
The Buddha’s insight into the middle way is not simply about a balance between extremes. This conventional understanding misses the deeper revelation of the middle way as being the very nature of unexcelled enlightenment.
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Balance Buddha Convention Extreme Insight Middle Mind Missing Simply Understand Understanding
The world’s problems are, by and large, human problems-the unavoidable consequence of egoic sleepwalking. If we care to look, all the signs are present to suggest that we are not only sleepwalking, but at times borderline insane as well.
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Consequence Egoic Human Insane Large Look Problem Sleepwalking Unavoidable World
At a certain point we need to grow up; we need to look inside ourselves for our inner guidance. There are things most human beings know; they just don’t want to know them.
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Certain Grow Growing Guidance Inner Inside Look Need Ourselves Point Up
Gratitude is the appreciation of what is, of life, of existence, of anybody and anything, for just the way it is.
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Anybody Appreciate Appreciation Existence Gratitude Way
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
True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.
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Desire True Freedom
Our illusions-the beliefs we hold on to-are the very doorways to our freedom. We simply have to enter through them without grasping or pushing away. We must not believe them, but we must not run away from them either.
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Belief Believe Compassion Doorway Enter Freedom Illusion Running Simply
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

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