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To accept the degree of surrender needed to literally let go of all experience and all self-reference. Even in great revelations, there is almost always something that wants to claim, “I am this.”

Adyashanti

You can’t lose what you serve. That’s the secret. What you serve, you can’t lose. What you don’t serve and what you try to hold onto, you can’t hold onto. It’s always slipping out of your fingers.
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Happen Lose Secret Serve Serving Slipping Trying
A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.
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Acceptance Self Total Transcendence Yourself
True sincerity reveals a powerful form of clarity and discernment that is necessary in order to perceive yourself honestly without flinching or being held captive by your conditioned mind’s judgments and defensiveness.
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Discernment Mind Necessary Order Perceive Powerful Sincerely Yourself
It is one thing to touch a flame and know it is hot, but quite another to jump into that flame and be consumed by it.
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Another Burning Consumed Flame Hot Jump Quite Touch
Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.
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Box Compassion Empty Frantic Infinite Life
True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.
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Experience Go Letting Manipulating Meditation Telling
If you filter my words through any tradition or ‘-ism’, you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is not static; it is alive. It cannot be put into concepts and be understood by the mind.
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Filter Liberating Lying Mind Missing Saying Tradition Truth
The truth is that you already are what you are seeking. You are looking for God with his eyes. I suggest you ask, “What’s ultimately behind this set of eyes?” Turn around to see what is looking.
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Already Ask Eye God Looking Suggest Truth Turn
The willingness to not bypass illusion is very important. We come to nirvana by way of samsara. We come to see the true nature of things by seeing through the illusory nature of things.
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Bypass Confusion Important Nirvana Samsara Way
One Zen master said, The whole universe is my true personality. This is a very wonderful saying… If you want to see what you truly are, open the window, and everything you see is in fact the expression of your inner reality. Can you embrace all of it?
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Expression Master Personality Reality Saying Universe Wanted Wonderful
True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.
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Derive Doe Intelligence Thinking Thought Use Uses
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
Retreat is a response to the call of the heart-that call which beckons us toward reality, to the truth of our being, to that which is truly sane, really real and liberating …
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Beckon Being Heart Powerful Real Reality Response Retreat Toward Truth
They know deep down that certain things in their lives are working or aren’t working, that certain parts of their lives are functional and others are dysfunctional. But sometimes, as human beings, we don’t want to know what’s not convenient. So we pretend not to know.
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Certain Dep Functional Human Know Live Part Pretend Thing Working
Embrace suffering, and you transform your relationship with what causes you to suffer, as well as your relationship with suffering itself.
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Cause Embrace Goal Relationship Suffer Suffering Transform
The teaching must not only consume you, but consume itself as well. All must be burned to ash, and then the ash must be burned. Then, and only then, is the Ultimate realized.
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Ash Burned Consume Realized Teaching Ultimate

To accept the degree of surrender needed to literally let go of all experience and all self-reference. Even in great revelations, there is almost always something that wants to claim, “I am this.”

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To accept the degree of surrender needed to literally let go of all experience and all self-reference. Even in great revelations, there is almost always something that wants to claim, “I am this.”

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