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If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume your mind’s clothing with more sooty knowledge.

Adyashanti

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
Human beings have a drive for security and safety, which is often what fuels the spiritual search. This very drive for security and safety is what causes so much misery and confusion.
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Distance Fuel Human Often Search Security Spiritual Thinking
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
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
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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Accept Almost Experience Revelation Something Surrender
To see things as you see them or to see things differently—until you have given the whole world its freedom—you’ll never have your freedom.
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Differently Freedom Given Think Whole
Only something as insane as human beings would ever asked themselves if ‘I’m good.’ You don’t find oak trees having existential crisis. ‘I feel so rotten about myself. I don’t produce as much acorns as the one next to me.’
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Being Good Human Insane Oak Rotten Themselves Tree
Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true. It is the way Life suggests that you are not in harmony with what is.
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Misperceiving Real Resisting Suffering Tell True Way
As long as you perceive that anyone is holding you back, you have not taken full responsibility for your own liberation. Liberation means that you stand free of making demands on others and life to make you happy.
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Holding Liberation Long Mean Perceive Responsibility Taken
The silence inside of you is the sound of your knowledge collapsing. Remember, it is you who said, ‘I want to be free.’
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Collapsing Inside Knowledge Remember Silence Sound Want Wanted
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
All is always well even when it seems unbelievably unwell.
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Always Seem Unbelievably Unwell Wells
True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.
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Derive Doe Intelligence Thinking Thought Use Uses
The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.
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Existence Flow Harmony Magical More
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
How do I integrate spirituality into my everyday life? Throw out the concept of “spiritual life” and “everyday life.” There is only life, undivided and whole.
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Everyday Integrate Integrating Life Spiritual

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