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We must become expressions of, not consumers of, realization.

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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
Faith is a withholding of conclusion so that you allow what is to arise.
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Arise Conclusion Faith Holding Withholding
Trying to maintain a pleasant state and avoid an unpleasant state is actually the cause of sorrow. When you stop resisting, you see that what seems frightening is actually the absolute beauty of reality.
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Hurt Love Maintain Reality Sorrow State Unpleasant
When the eternal and the human meet, that’s where love is born — not through escaping our humanity or trying to disappear into transcendence, but through finding that place where they come into union.
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Born Escaping Eternal Human Humanity Love Meet
In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself. Primordial awareness is the source in which all objects arise and subside.
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Awareness Knowing Listening Meditate Meditation Object Primordial Resting
What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.
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Appreciate Appreciation Attention Freedom Holding Living Meditation
A meditative mind is at ease because it’s not trying to acquire anything.
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Anything Aquire Ease Meditative Mind Trying
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
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
Concentration is a way in which we are actually directing or guiding or controlling our experience. Meditation is letting go of control, letting go of guiding our experience in any way whatsoever. The foundation of True Meditation is that we are letting go of control.
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Concentration Control Directing Experience Guiding Meditation Way
All we really want in the end is to be connected once again with the Truth of our being, to realize what it is that wears this mask of self.
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Again Connected Reality Realize Realizing Self Truth Want
When you stand in your own authority, based in your own direct experience, you meet that ultimate mystery that you are. Even though it may be at first unsettling to look into your own no-thingness.
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Authority Based May Mystery Stand Suffering Ultimate Want
To remain unconscious of being is to remain asleep to our own reality and therefore asleep to reality at large. The choice is simple: awaken to being or sleep an endless sleep.
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Asleep Choice Endless Large Reality Remain Sleep Unconcious
There is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.
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Apart Conscious Consciousness Individual
I often describe the Absolute as Pure Infinite Potential, prior to being or becoming anything. It is forever unborn, yet gives birth to all of existence. About our ultimate nature nothing can be said; it must be revealed.
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Anything Becoming Forever Giving Infinite Potential Prior Unborn
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

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