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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.

Adyashanti

We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world.
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Birthed Community Sacred Sangha World
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
Freedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom.
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Disappearance Freedom Searching Soul
A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom.
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Heart Integrity Married Mind Quiet Wisdom
It is easy to imagine that the Buddha, the awakened one, is something or somewhere other than here or that awakening to reality will happen sometime other than now. But as long as we continue to think in terms of time we will deceive ourselves.
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Awakened Buddha One Reality Somewhere Thinking Time
True love has nothing to do with liking someone, agreeing with him or her or being compatible. It is a love of unity, a love of seeing God wearing all the masks, and recognising itself in them all..
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Agree Compatible Fall Love Nothing Strength Unity Wall You
Whatever you resist, persists.
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Persist Resist Whatever
So most of us human beings have a very deep underlying conditioning that says that just to be who we are is not OK…….
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Conditioning Deep Human Most OK Underlying
So the biggest act of compassion starts within. And when the self is no longer seen as a problem, this is called “the peace that passes all understanding.
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Biggest Compassion Longer Peace Problem Seen Start Understanding
Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.
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Only Silence Teacher Teaching Time
All you have to do is say “yes.” Don’t make some big project out of it. Don’t make some big deal out of it. Just say “yes.” You don’t even know what it means to say “yes,” but you say it anyway. You’ll never know what it means to say “yes,” but you do it anyway.
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Big Deal Freedom Love Mean Say Trust Yes
When we’re in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose.
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Bring Feel Life Moment Purpose True
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
Imagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.
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Come Imagine Silence Trusting Up
We must leave the entire collection of conditioned thought behind and let ourselves be led by the inner thread of silence into the unknown, beyond where all paths end, to that place where we go innocently or not at all, not once but continually.
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Behind Collection End Entire Inner Ourselves Path Silence
The goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.
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Buddhism Buddhist Christian Christianity Create Created

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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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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