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What would happen if you were to allow everything to be exactly as it is? If you gave up the need for control, and instead embraced the whole of your experience in each moment that arose?

Adyashanti

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
The Way of Liberation is not a belief system; it is something to be put into practice.
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Belief Liberation Practice Put Something System Way
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
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
In silence a question has great power, because in silence a question will always lead you deeper into your experience. If there is no grounding in silence, a spiritual question is going to lead you into your mind.
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Deeper Experience Great Mind Power Question Silence Spiritual
Love causes us to be deeply connected in an unspoken way. It happens when we’re really available, really open.
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Available Cause Connected Deeply Happen Open Really Unspoken Way
To awaken to the absolute view is profound and transformative, but to awaken from all fixed points of view is the birth of true non-duality. If emptiness cannot dance, it is not true emptiness.
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Absolute Awaken Dream Fixed Night Point Profound Sky
This awake silence is available to anyone in this moment. All you have to do is stop using your mind to look for it. It doesn’t know where to find it.
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Anyone Available Awake Look Mind Silence Stop Using
A few minutes ago, you knew who you were-you had a history and a personality-but from this place of not knowing, you question all of that.
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Few History Knowing Minute Personality Place Question
Truth is quite literally the only thing that does exist. It is not hidden but in plain view, not lacking but abundantly present.
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Exist Hidden Lacking Literally Only Present Quite Truth
A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom.
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Heart Integrity Married Mind Quiet Wisdom
You can’t look at what’s looking. You can’t think about that which is prior to thought.
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Look Looking Prior Think Thinking Thought
Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.
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Awareness Being Cease Comprise Pure Pursuit Recognize
Many Sages have said, “Your world is a dream. You’re living in an illusion.” They’re referring to this world of the mind and the way we believe our thoughts about reality.
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Believe Dream Ilusion Living Many Reality Referring Sages
Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.
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Being End Enlightenment More Natural Nothing State
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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Express Know Manifest Simple Thoroughly Very

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