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When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are. When I have a thought about you, that’s something I’ve created. I’ve turned you into an idea.

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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.
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Based Believe Delusion Mind Ourselves Talking
[And yet] it is astounding how completely we humans define ourselves by the content of our minds, feelings, and history.
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Astounding Completely Content Define Feeling History Mind Ourselves
If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.
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Deepest Live Living Manifest Moment Realizing Revelation Split
We realize–often quite suddenly–that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who we are. It doesn’t define us, it has no center.
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Constructed Formed Idea Quite Realize Self Sense Suddenly
You are not your story. They are not your story about them. The world is not your story about the world.
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Stories Story Them World
You don’t awaken, what has eternally been awake realizes itself. That which is eternally awake is what you are.
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Aggrandizing Awaken Confident Feel Puffed React Story
Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretence. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.
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Anger Crumbling Enlightenment Eradication Everything Imagined Pretence
A meditative mind is at ease because it’s not trying to acquire anything.
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Anything Aquire Ease Meditative Mind Trying
There is, quite literally, nothing to understand.
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Literally Nothing Quite Understand
Freedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom.
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Disappearance Freedom Searching Soul
Thoughts are just moving through consciousness. They have no power. Nothing has reality until you reach it, grab it, and somehow impregnate it with the power of belief.
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Belief Consciousness Moving Power Reality Thought
In the end it’s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t.
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End Giving Ourselves Silence Simple
Meditation is a teaching which offers you the possibility of breaking free of this egoic state of consciousness and coming into a whole new realization of who and what you truly are. And all this starts with the willingness to question.
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Consciousness Egoic Meditation Offer Possibility Realization Teaching
If you think that people should be nice to one another, then by all means be nice. But when you project that belief onto the people and the world around you as if it were an objective reality, or worse still.
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Another Belief Job Mean Nice One Project Think
The mind may accept or deny that you are awareness, but either way it can’t really understand. It cannot comprehend. Thought cannot comprehend what is beyond thought.
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Accept Awareness Comprehensive May Mind Understand Way
True Meditation is the space in which everything gets revealed, everything gets seen, everything gets experienced. And as such, it lets go of itself. We don’t even let go. It lets go of itself.
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Everything Experienced Let Go Meditation Revealed Seen Space True

When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are. When I have a thought about you, that’s something I’ve created. I’ve turned you into an idea.

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When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are. When I have a thought about you, that’s something I’ve created. I’ve turned you into an idea.

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