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We realize–often quite suddenly–that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who we are. It doesn’t define us, it has no center.

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When the eternal and the human meet, that’s where love is born — not through escaping our humanity or trying to disappear into transcendence, but through finding that place where they come into union.
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Born Escaping Eternal Human Humanity Love Meet
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
True Meditation is the space in which everything gets revealed, everything gets seen, everything gets experienced. And as such, it lets go of itself. We don’t even let go. It lets go of itself.
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Everything Experienced Let Go Meditation Revealed Seen Space True
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
Whatever you want, be it. If you want connection, it’s because you are connection. Be what you want, and then it happens all around you. If you want love, be it.
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Connect Connections Love Want Wanted Whatever
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
Relaxing into not knowing is almost like surrendering into a big, comfortable chair; you just fall into a field of possibility.
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Almost Comfortable Fall Knowing Possibility Relaxing Surrounding
Feel your way into what I am saying rather than thinking about it. Only a self-concept looks and longs for God. Drop your self-concept and there is only God meeting God. Enlightenment is the restoration of cosmic humor.
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Concept Enlightenment Fascinated God Looking Rather Self
Imagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.
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Come Imagine Silence Trusting Up
The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.
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Already Believe Seeking Truth
Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.
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After Itself Seek Source Yearn Yearning
The biggest embrace of love you’ll ever make is to embrace yourself completely. Then you’ll realize you’ve just embraced the whole universe, and everything and everybody in it.
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Biggest Completely Embrace Love Realize Realizing Universe
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
Many people think that it is the function of a spiritual teaching to provide answers to life’s biggest questions, but actually, the opposite is true. The primary task of any good spiritual teaching is not to answer your questions, but to question your answers.
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Biggest Many People Provide Question Spiritual Teaching Thinking
When you see that everything is a momentary display of reality, then you stop resisting it. Resistance hurts, only every single time. Love is the state of nonresistance.
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Love Maintain Sorrow State Trying Unpleasant
If you tell yourself a sad story, the body reacts to that. And if you tell yourself a self-aggrandizing story, the body feels puffed up, confident. But when you realize it’s all stories, there can be a vast waking up out of the mind, out of the dream.
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Aggrandizing Dream Mind Self Stories Story

We realize–often quite suddenly–that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who we are. It doesn’t define us, it has no center.

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We realize–often quite suddenly–that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who we are. It doesn’t define us, it has no center.

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