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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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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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In order to be truly free, you must desire to know the truth more than you want to feel good. Because, if feeling good is your goal, then as soon as you feel better you will lose interest in what is true.
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True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.
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The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.
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Fear is very often a part of the spiritual path. When people sit down and meditate it’s not at all uncommon for fear to arise at some point.
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Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.
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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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What am I, really? The beautiful thing…is nobody can tell us what we are. Nobody can really tell us. Not in a way that’s going to be satisfactory to us. Our true nature is self-authenticating. When we bump into our true nature,
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Whatever you can become will ultimately be destroyed. Only what you already are can’t be taken away.
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The beautiful thing about the truth of being is that it’s so unimaginably immediate.
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When we really start to take a look at who we think we are… we start to see that while we may have various thoughts, beliefs, and identities, they do not individually or collectively tell us who we are.
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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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Completion comes when we not just wake up from all form, from all identification, but when love causes us to re-embrace it all.
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Question your thoughts. Question your stories. Question your assumptions. Question your opinions. Question your conclusions. Question them all into utter emptiness, stillness and joy. The keys to freedom are in your hands. Use them.
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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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Once again, we find ourselves back in the unknown – not in the idea of the unknown, but in the lived reality of it. It’s the mind humbled, on its knees, with bare feet and free of the known.
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