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So the biggest act of compassion starts within. And when the self is no longer seen as a problem, this is called “the peace that passes all understanding.

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At first it seems as if begoing follows becoming. But look even closer and you will see that there are only flashes of lightning illuminating the empty sky.
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Becoming Begging Closer First Flashes Follow Journey Seem Sky
If you give yourself this gift of not knowing and you follow it, a vast spaciousness and mysterious openness dawns within you.
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Drawn Follow Gift Give Knowing Mysterious Openness Spaciousness Vast
The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.
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Existence Flow Harmony Magical More
Neither one of these thoughts hold any intrinsic reality. They are an overlay. When someone says, ‘I love you,’ he is telling you about himself, not you. When someone says, ‘I hate you,’ she is telling you about herself, not you. World views are self views-literally.
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Illusion Neither OK One Someone Something Tell True
Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.
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Being End Enlightenment More Natural Nothing State
Many Sages have said, “Your world is a dream. You’re living in an illusion.” They’re referring to this world of the mind and the way we believe our thoughts about reality.
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Believe Dream Ilusion Living Many Reality Referring Sages
Stop all delays, all seeking and all striving. Put down your concepts, ideas and beliefs. For one instant be still and directly encounter the silent unknown core of your being. In that instant Freedom will embrace you and reveal the Awakening that you are.
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Concept Delay Encounters Idea Instant Down Stop
The goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.
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Concentration is a way in which we are actually directing or guiding or controlling our experience. Meditation is letting go of control, letting go of guiding our experience in any way whatsoever. The foundation of True Meditation is that we are letting go of control.
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Concentration Control Directing Experience Guiding Meditation Way
The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. When you start to see the light that you really are, the light waking up in you, the radiance, you realize it has no intention to change you.
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Anything Consciousness Light Mind Running Start
Can you imagine if you really let it in that you are not a problem to be solved in any way? Imagine you knew that anything that would tell you otherwise is just a movement of thought in the mind that says “Whatever is, isn’t the way it is supposed to be.
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Compassion Imagine Know Peace Problem Self Solved Thing
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
Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control. This is meditation. Anything else is actually a form of concentration. Meditation and concentration are two different things. Concentration is a discipline.
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Anything Control Go Letting Mastering Meditation Real Technique Two
How do I integrate spirituality into my everyday life? Throw out the concept of “spiritual life” and “everyday life.” There is only life, undivided and whole.
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Everyday Integrate Integrating Life Spiritual
Go ahead, climb up onto the velvet top of the highest stakes table. Place yourself as the bet. Look God in the eyes and finally, for once in your life, lose.
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Ahead Bet Climb Eye Look Stake Velvet Winning
As you gently relax into awareness, into listening, the mind’s compulsive contraction around objects will fade. Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.
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Aware Awareness Being Gently Resting Unmanifest

So the biggest act of compassion starts within. And when the self is no longer seen as a problem, this is called “the peace that passes all understanding.

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So the biggest act of compassion starts within. And when the self is no longer seen as a problem, this is called “the peace that passes all understanding.

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