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If you resist confusion,you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them.

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It simply means that if this desire to feel good is stronger than the yearning to see, know, and experience Truth, then this desire will always be distorting the perception of what is Real, while corrupting one’s deepest integrity.
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Desire Experience Feel Perception Simply Stronger Yeaning
When a group of people come together as a response to that kind of inward call, it creates a very powerful environment, where truth is held in the highest esteem and the reality of our being responds to that deepest intention.
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Ego Environment Esteem Highest People Response Together
True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.
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Direction Goal Meditation Prayer Pure Silent Surrender Wordless
You are the doorway to the infinite.
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Doorway Infinite Set
The truth is you can’t try to let go. Trying is the opposite of letting go. To let go is to relinquish trying. To let go is much more like to let be.
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Go Letting Opposite Opposites Relinquish Truth Trying
You must want to know the truth more than you want to feel secure in order to fully awaken to the fact that you are nothing but Awakeness itself.
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Awaken Awakening Fact Feel Feeling Good More Order Secure Want
You’ll have more love than you know what to do with. Whatever you are inside, you receive a thousandfold on the outside.
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Fold Inside Love More Outside Recieve Thousand
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
As if some dreadful fate would overcome us if we were to face the pure light of truth and lay bare our fearful clinging to illusion.
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Bare Dreadful Fearful Illusion Light Overcome Pure Some
Self-inquiry is a spiritually induced form of wintertime. It’s not about looking for a right answer so much as stripping away and letting you see what is not necessary, what you can do without, what you are without your leaves.
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Answer Inquiry Looking Right Self Spirituality Stripping Wintertime
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
How do I integrate spirituality into my everyday life? Throw out the concept of “spiritual life” and “everyday life.” There is only life, undivided and whole.
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Everyday Integrate Integrating Life Spiritual
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
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
[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
There is, quite literally, nothing to understand.
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Literally Nothing Quite Understand

If you resist confusion,you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them.

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If you resist confusion,you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them.

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