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Now don’t think that awakening is the end. Awakening is the end of seeking, the end of the seeker, but it is the beginning of a life lived from your true nature.

Adyashanti

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
This movement of grasping and aversion gives rise to a sense of a separate ‘me,’ and in turn the sense of ‘me’ strengthens itself this way.
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Aversion Grasping Movement Rise Sense Separate Strengthens
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
My experience of fundamental Truth is that it’s a place of extraordinary intelligence. It’s a place from which great intelligence arises. I call it a place of absolute infinite potential.
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Experience Extraordinary Fundamental Great Infinite Intelligence Place 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
What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.
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Appreciate Appreciation Attention Freedom Holding Living Meditation
An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.
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Being Common Enlightened Express Freedom Man Ordinary Seek
Whatever you resist, persists.
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Persist Resist Whatever
Enlightenment is the natural state of consciousness, the innocent state of consciousness, that state which is uncontaminated by the movement of thought, uncontaminated by control or manipulation of mind.
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Consciousness Enlightenment Innocent Mind Movement State
There is profound responsibility in being Love… more than the mind could imagine or hold up under. If most human beings truly realized the impact that they have on the whole, they’d be crushed by the realization of it.
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Being Hold Human Imagine Impact Profound Responsibility Responsible Under
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
Thoughts in your head are really no different than the sound of a bird outside. It is just that you decide that they are more or less relevant.
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Bird Decide Different Outside Really Sound Thought
All we really want in the end is to be connected once again with the Truth of our being, to realize what it is that wears this mask of self.
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Again Connected Reality Realize Realizing Self Truth Want
Nothing appears to be something. The human experience is a senseory organ for the divine self. Through these eyes, the divine gets to see itself in form.
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Appear Awareness Devine Experience Eye Human Self Sensory
Usually we think that we are looking at a tree, but the tree is looking at itself through us. Without this instrument, the tree does not get to see itself. We are sensing instruments of the Divine.
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Divine Instrument Looking Think Tree
What would happen if you were to allow everything to be exactly as it is? If you gave up the need for control, and instead embraced the whole of your experience in each moment that arose?
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Allow Anything Control Exactly Meditation Moment Need

Now don’t think that awakening is the end. Awakening is the end of seeking, the end of the seeker, but it is the beginning of a life lived from your true nature.

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Now don’t think that awakening is the end. Awakening is the end of seeking, the end of the seeker, but it is the beginning of a life lived from your true nature.

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