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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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This does not mean that feeling good or experiencing love and bliss is a bad thing. Given the choice, anyone would choose to feel bliss rather than sorrow.
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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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Whatever you can become will ultimately be destroyed. Only what you already are can’t be taken away.
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Love causes us to be deeply connected in an unspoken way. It happens when we’re really available, really open.
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The beautiful thing about the truth of being is that it’s so unimaginably immediate.
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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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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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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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Question your thoughts. Question your stories. Question your assumptions. Question your opinions. Question your conclusions. Question them all into utter emptiness, stillness and joy. The keys to freedom are in your hands. Use them.
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If you were able to give up control absolutely, totally, and completely, then you would be a spiritually free being.
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If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.
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They know deep down that certain things in their lives are working or aren’t working, that certain parts of their lives are functional and others are dysfunctional. But sometimes, as human beings, we don’t want to know what’s not convenient. So we pretend not to know.
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Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, 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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Silence is itself the eternal witness without form or attributes. As you rest more profoundly as the witness, all objects take on their natural functionality, and awareness becomes free of the mind’s compulsive contractions and identifications. It returns to its natural non-state of Presence.
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Silence and stillness are not states and therefore cannot be produced or created. Silence is the non-state in which all states arise and subside. Silence, stillness and awareness are not states and can never be perceived in their totality as objects.
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Most human beings spend their lives battling with opposing inner forces: what they think they should do versus what they are doing; how they feel about themselves versus how they are; whether they think they’re right and worthy or wrong and unworthy.
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