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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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Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.
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Awareness Being Cease Comprise Pure Pursuit Recognize
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
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
Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier.
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Becoming Better Crumbling Destructive Enlightenment Process
Be a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don’t expect it to be easy or even noticed.
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Easy Expect Goodness Heart Noticed Representative
If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.
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Chosen Leap Limitation Once Self
Meditation is not a technique to master; it is the highest form of prayer, a naked act of love and effortless surrender into the silent abyss beyond all knowing
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Act Highest Knowing Meditation Naked Prayer
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
Enlightenment is a destructive process.
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Destructive Enlightenment Process
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
This world is not my concern; it is myself.
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Concern Myself World
When you rest deeply in the Unknown without trying to escape, your experience becomes very vast. As the experience of the Unknown deepens, your boundaries begin to dissolve. You realize, not just intellectually but on a deep level, that you have no idea who or what you are.
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Deeply Escape Experience Ideas Knowing Personality
The willingness to not bypass illusion is very important. We come to nirvana by way of samsara. We come to see the true nature of things by seeing through the illusory nature of things.
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Bypass Confusion Important Nirvana Samsara Way
When you inquire ‘Who am I?’ if you are honest, you’ll notice that it takes you right back to silence instantly. The brain doesn’t have an answer, so all of a sudden there is silence.
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Answer Brain Honest Inquire Instantly Notice Silence
Take the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you.
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Armor Arrow Penetrate Truth
Freedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom.
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Disappearance Freedom Searching Soul

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