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All delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we’re talking to ourselves and then believing what we are saying.

Adyashanti

Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?
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Buddha Everything Find Going Nature Since Supreme
There is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.
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Apart Conscious Consciousness Individual
You come to see that everything you think you know about yourself, everything you think you know about the world, is based on assumptions, beliefs, and opinions-things that you believe because you were taught or told they were true.
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Assumption Based Belief Believe Everything Know Thing
We don’t come to nirvana by avoiding samsara. We don’t come to clarity by avoiding confusion.
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Avoid Avoiding Confusion Nirvana Samsara
Grief, unresisted, is grace. It doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt anymore, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t rip your heart out….In great grief, there’s an incredible love in it. In love there’s a tinge of bitter. In true love.
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Anymore Grace Grief Heart Hurt Out Rip Teacher Unresisted
The Buddha’s insight into the middle way is not simply about a balance between extremes. This conventional understanding misses the deeper revelation of the middle way as being the very nature of unexcelled enlightenment.
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Balance Buddha Convention Extreme Insight Middle Mind Missing Simply Understand Understanding
You must choose between your attachments and happiness.
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Attachment Happiness Must Choose Positive Selected Thinking
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
Whatever you want, be it. If you want connection, it’s because you are connection. Be what you want, and then it happens all around you. If you want love, be it.
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Connect Connections Love Want Wanted Whatever
There’s a great space in which this moment takes place. There’s a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.
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Listening Moment Place Silence Space Thought
Go ahead, climb up onto the velvet top of the highest stakes table. Place yourself as the bet. Look God in the eyes and finally, for once in your life, lose.
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Ahead Bet Climb Eye Look Stake Velvet Winning
Everybody is free to be as they are. Until the whole world is free to agree with you or disagree with you, until you have given the freedom to everyone to like you or not like you, to love you or hate you,
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Agree Disagree Everybody Freedom Given Like Until
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.
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Burning Clothing Fire Intend Leave Mind Perfume Prefer
What gets taken away are all the exterior means we thought we wanted love to come to us. You have the choice to notice the perfect set up to see love is exactly what you are.
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Actually Choice Exactly Exterior Love Notice Ourselves Wanted
The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.
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Challenge Most Seeker Spiritual Struggle Struggling
No matter what identity we cling to, it takes great courage to step out of the old masks we wear and the old scripts that we live by, and open ourselves to the mysterious inner core of our being.
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Courage Great Identity Mask Matter Old Script Step

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