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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.

Adyashanti

The door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of that uncertainty and all wisdom will be yours.
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Anything Door Grace Insecurity Knowing Spiritual Uncertainty Wisdom
There’s a great space in which this moment takes place. There’s a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.
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Listening Moment Place Silence Space Thought
It is in the absolute surrender of all conditions and requirements that Liberation is discovered to be who and what you are. Then the love and wisdom that flows out of you has a liberating effect on others.
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Absolute Condition Effect Liberating Love Requirement Surrender Wisdom
Cessation of struggle is like free falling through space without a care in the world.
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Care Cessation Fall Falling Free Space Struggle World
We must become expressions of, not consumers of, realization.
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Become Consumer Expression Must Realization
You do it anyway. Why? Because you no longer want to suffer. Because you’re willing to be disturbed. You’re willing to be amazed. You’re willing to be surprised.
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Anyway Disturbed Longer Suffer Surprised Willing
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
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 must leave the entire collection of conditioned thought behind and let ourselves be led by the inner thread of silence into the unknown, beyond where all paths end, to that place where we go innocently or not at all, not once but continually.
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Behind Collection End Entire Inner Ourselves Path Silence
If moonlight does not flood the empty night sky and reflect in every drop of water, on every blade of grass, then you are only looking at your own empty dream.
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Dream Drop Empty Grass Looking Moonlight Night Sky Water
When you realize what you are now, the issue of death will solve itself.
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Death Issue Itself Now Realize Realizing Solve
Take the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you.
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Armor Arrow Penetrate Truth
As soon as the mind pulls out an agenda and decides what needs to change, that’s unreality. Life doesn’t need to decide who’s right and who’s wrong. Life doesn’t need to know the “right” way to go because it’s going there anyway.
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Agenda Change Decide Life Mind Need Pull Soon Unreality
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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Elsewhere Hate Love Self Someone Wanted
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
One doesn’t stay in a state of nirvana by hiding from difficulties. You stay in nirvana by lavishing nirvana on everyone you meet, by giving it away as fast as you receive it.
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Difficulties Giving Hide Hiding Lavishing Nirvana State

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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