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I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn’t exist?

Adyashanti

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
Freedom and Love arise when you die into the unknown mystery of being.
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Arise Freedom Living Love Mystery Unknown
Life itself is nothing but relationship.
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Inspirational Life Itself Nothing
If you have any image of what the Truth is, slay it immediately because that’s not it.
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All you have to do is say “yes.” Don’t make some big project out of it. Don’t make some big deal out of it. Just say “yes.” You don’t even know what it means to say “yes,” but you say it anyway. You’ll never know what it means to say “yes,” but you do it anyway.
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Big Deal Freedom Love Mean Say Trust Yes
In the same vein, my teachings are not meant to acquire followers or imitators, but to awaken beings to eternal truth and thus to awakened life and living.
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Acquire Awakened Eternal Follower Initiator Living Teaching
When someone tells you, ‘I love you,’ and then you feel, ‘Oh, I must be worthy after all,’ that’s an illusion. That’s not true. Or someone says, ‘I hate you,’ and you think, ‘Oh, God, I knew it; I’m not very worthy,’ that’s not true either.
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No one can give you the strength of character necessary… Only you can find that passion within that burns with an integrity that will not settle for anything less than the Truth.
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Burn Character Integrity Necessary Passion Strength
We don’t come to nirvana by avoiding samsara. We don’t come to clarity by avoiding confusion.
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Avoid Avoiding Confusion Nirvana Samsara
The Buddha’s insight into the middle way is not simply about a balance between extremes. This conventional understanding misses the deeper revelation of the middle way as being the very nature of unexcelled enlightenment.
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Balance Buddha Convention Extreme Insight Middle Mind Missing Simply Understand Understanding
When you begin to become conscious, more aware, when your eyes begin to open, the first thing you see is how deluded you are and how much you’re holding onto that which makes you suffer. This is, in many ways, the most important step: Are you willing to be aware?
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Aware Begin Conscious Eye First Important Suffering Thing
The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. When you start to see the light that you really are, the light waking up in you, the radiance, you realize it has no intention to change you.
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Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being, pure consciousness. This is actually the very substance of your own self and being.
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The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but it does change.
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Truth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is discovered minute to minute or not at all.
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What the universe will manifest when you are in alignment with it is a lot more interesting than what you try to manifest
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Alignment Interesting Lot Manifest Support Trying

I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn’t exist?

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