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Meditation is a teaching which offers you the possibility of breaking free of this egoic state of consciousness and coming into a whole new realization of who and what you truly are. And all this starts with the willingness to question.

Adyashanti

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
We must become expressions of, not consumers of, realization.
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Become Consumer Expression Must Realization
Most human beings have an imprinting that if they’re real, if they’re honest, somebody’s not gonna like it. And they won’t be able to control their environment if they tell the truth.
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Control Environment Honest Human Imprinting Somebody Truth
This world is not my concern; it is myself.
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Concern Myself World
When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable. It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we are not relating from the truth. It’s a beautiful pointer. It never fails.
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Beautiful Mean Seeing Suffer Suffering Truth Valuable
You’re willing to realize that maybe everything you’ve ever thought about yourself really isn’t true.
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Everything Realize True Willing
If we know who and what we are very thoroughly, we will express and manifest that in what we do. It is all very simple.
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Express Know Manifest Simple Thoroughly Very
When you rest deeply in the Unknown without trying to escape, your experience becomes very vast. As the experience of the Unknown deepens, your boundaries begin to dissolve. You realize, not just intellectually but on a deep level, that you have no idea who or what you are.
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Deeply Escape Experience Ideas Knowing Personality
[And yet] it is astounding how completely we humans define ourselves by the content of our minds, feelings, and history.
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Astounding Completely Content Define Feeling History Mind Ourselves
The realization of Truth and Reality can never be created by the mind … it always comes as a gift of grace. Inquiry clears away misperceptions and illusions, making one available to the movements of grace.
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Come Gift Grace Mind Reality Realization Truth
There is, quite literally, nothing to understand.
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Literally Nothing Quite Understand
Truth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is discovered minute to minute or not at all.
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Discovered Finality Minute Something Truth
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 process of finding the truth may not be a process by which we feel increasingly better and better. It may be a process by which we look at things honestly, sincerely, truthfully, and that may or may not be an easy thing to do.
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Better Easy Finding Increasingly Look May Process Truth
Trying to maintain a pleasant state and avoid an unpleasant state is actually the cause of sorrow. When you stop resisting, you see that what seems frightening is actually the absolute beauty of reality.
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Hurt Love Maintain Reality Sorrow State Unpleasant
You’ll have more love than you know what to do with. Whatever you are inside, you receive a thousandfold on the outside.
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Fold Inside Love More Outside Recieve Thousand

Meditation is a teaching which offers you the possibility of breaking free of this egoic state of consciousness and coming into a whole new realization of who and what you truly are. And all this starts with the willingness to question.

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Meditation is a teaching which offers you the possibility of breaking free of this egoic state of consciousness and coming into a whole new realization of who and what you truly are. And all this starts with the willingness to question.

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