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No one can give you the strength of character necessary… Only you can find that passion within that burns with an integrity that will not settle for anything less than the Truth.

Adyashanti

As soon as you believe that a label you’ve put on yourself is true, you’ve limited something that is literally limitless, you’ve limited who you are into nothing but a thought.
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Believe Label Limited Limitless Literally Something
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
The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.
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Growth Really Requirement Spiritual Yearning
Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.
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Burn Destruction Everything False Flame Fulfilment Love
Your life, all of your life, is your path to awakening. By resisting or not dealing with its challenges, you stay asleep to Reality. Pay attention to what life is trying to reveal to you. Say yes to its fierce, ruthless, and loving grace.
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Awakening Challenge Dealing Grace Life Reality
To be free of fear is to be full of Love.
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Free Full Love
Silence and stillness are not states and therefore cannot be produced or created. Silence is the non-state in which all states arise and subside. Silence, stillness and awareness are not states and can never be perceived in their totality as objects.
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Created Meditation Mind Produced Silence Stillness
Every time you claim, “I am this”, you just claimed another sense perception, thought, emotion, or feeling.
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Claim Claimed Emotion Feeling Perception Sense Time
The body is a sensing instrument of consciousness. Without the body and mind, the trees could not see themselves.
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Body Consciousness Instrument Mind Sensing Think Thinking Tree
There’s a fierceness about life that calls for a fierceness to not anxiously solve it but to allow it to transform you.
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Allow Anxiously Call Fierceness Solve Transform
If you were able to give up control absolutely, totally, and completely, then you would be a spiritually free being.
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Anything Anywhere Control Give Infinitesimal Right Urge
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
Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.
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Death Dress Dresses Meditation Rehearsal
So most of us human beings have a very deep underlying conditioning that says that just to be who we are is not OK…….
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Conditioning Deep Human Most OK Underlying
Doubt is always accompanied by a pervasive cynicism that unconsciously puts a negative spin on whatever it touches.
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Accomplained Always Cynicism Doubt Negative Spin Touch Unconsciously
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
The question of being is everything. Nothing could be more important or consequential-n othing where the stakes run so high.
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Consequential Important Nothing Question Running Simple Sleep Stake
There’s something more to life than what we see on the surface.
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Life More See Something Surface
The Truth doesn’t answer anything. The Truth IS everything!
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Answers Anything Everything Truth
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
There is nothing wrong with thought and it can be used whenever necessary. But in every moment you can choose to follow your thoughts or you can recognize that which is not thinking. Don’t try to stop thinking, let it happen. Just recognize that which is not thinking.
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Choose Moment Necessary Nothing Thinking Thought Trying Whenever Wrong
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
It is easy to imagine that the Buddha, the awakened one, is something or somewhere other than here or that awakening to reality will happen sometime other than now. But as long as we continue to think in terms of time we will deceive ourselves.
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Awakened Buddha One Reality Somewhere Thinking Time
The separate self is just the conglomeration of these opposing forces. When the self drops away, inner division drops away with it.
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Away Conglomeration Division Force Opoosote Separate
You must want to know the truth more than you want to feel secure in order to fully awaken to the fact that you are nothing but Awakeness itself.
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Awaken Awakening Fact Feel Feeling Good More Order Secure Want
The beautiful thing about the truth of being is that it’s so unimaginably immediate.
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Beautiful Immediate Thing Truth Being Unimaginavly
It simply means that if this desire to feel good is stronger than the yearning to see, know, and experience Truth, then this desire will always be distorting the perception of what is Real, while corrupting one’s deepest integrity.
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Desire Experience Feel Perception Simply Stronger Yeaning

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