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We think there’s someplace other than here to get to—that’s what drives the whole pursuit.

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When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what’s left? A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are.
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Awakening Brightness Fade Idea Image Imagination Quietness
Awareness isn’t something we own; awareness isn’t something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.
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Actually Awareness Happen Possess Something
Your life, all of your life, is your path to awakening. By resisting or not dealing with its challenges, you stay asleep to Reality. Pay attention to what life is trying to reveal to you. Say yes to its fierce, ruthless, and loving grace.
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Awakening Challenge Dealing Grace Life Reality
Gratitude is the appreciation of what is, of life, of existence, of anybody and anything, for just the way it is.
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Anybody Appreciate Appreciation Existence Gratitude Way
Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness
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Consciousness Enlightenment State
The truth lies beyond all forms of conceptual fundamentalism. What you are is the beyond—awake and present, here and now already. I am simply helping you to realize that.
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Beyond Conceptual Fundamental Helping Realize Truth
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
[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
In the heart of a human being, emptiness becomes love. When we touch that Source, instantly the love is present. Literally, the divine becomes human and the human becomes divine.
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Concept Fixating Free Heart Hold Human Love Emptiness
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
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
Refuse to disconnect from love and every relationship will be totally transformed; even the relationship with yourself.
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Disconnect Even Refuse Relationship Totally Transformed Yourself
What if you let go of every bit of control and every urge that you have, right down to the most infinitesimal urge to control anything, anywhere, including anything that may be happening with you at this moment?
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Control Down Giving Up Go Infinitesimal Letting Light Most Right
Life becomes almost magical. The illusion of the “me” is no longer in the way. Life begins to flow, and you never know where it will take you.
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Almost Illusion Life Longer Magical never Take
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
The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda.
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Agenda Into Only Reality Run Running Thing Truth
When you get out of the driver’s seat, you find that life can drive itself, that actually life has always been driving itself. When you get out of the driver’s seat, it can drive itself so much easier-it can flow in ways you never imagined.
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Actually Always Driver Driving Flow Itself Life Seat Way
My teacher used to say ‘all love is bittersweet’. All things experienced fully, reveal their opposite.
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Bittersweet Experienced Opposite Reveal Teacher Used
The perspective of Love doesn’t leave anybody out. Until your vision and compassion is big enough to include those who oppose you, you are simply contributing to the continuation of destructiveness . The end of separation is the salvation for all.
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Anybody Compassion Enough Include Leave Perspective Until Vision
A meditative mind is at ease because it’s not trying to acquire anything.
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Anything Aquire Ease Meditative Mind Trying
The beautiful thing about the truth of being is that it’s so unimaginably immediate.
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Beautiful Immediate Thing Truth Being Unimaginavly
There is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.
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Apart Conscious Consciousness Individual
You’re Arguing with ‘What Is’ – Your demands keep you chained to the ‘dream-state’ of the conditioned mind. The desire to ‘control’… is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake.
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Arguing Awake Control Demand Desire Happy People Simple Ultimately
Eventually, in the state of liberation, meditation will simply become your natural condition.
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Condition Eventuality Liberation Meditation Natural
One must be willing to stand alone – in the unknown, with no reference to authority or the past or any of one’s conditioning. One must stand where no one has stood before in complete nakedness, innocence, and humility.
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Alone Authority Humility Innocence Past Reference Stand Unknown
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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Believe Experience Idea Other Really Thought World
The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.
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Awakening Barrier Belief Biggest Rare Something

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