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A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom.

Adyashanti

Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering.
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Anger Angry Confused Resist Sad Sadness
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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Actually Anger Certain Confusion Resist Think Whatever
If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.
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Attachment Consciousness Elsewhere Listen Sit Something Want
Ego is the movement of the mind toward objects of perception in the form of grasping, and away from objects in the form of aversion. This fundamentally is all the ego is.
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Away Ego Giving Grasping Mind Object Perception
Most people don’t get out of childhood, or adolescence, without being wounded for telling the truth. Someone says ‘you can’t say that’ or ‘you shouldn’t say that’ or ‘that wasn’t appropriate’.
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Adolescence Behind Childhood Inner Ourselves People Real Thread
Whenever you aren’t manipulating your experience, you’re meditating. As soon as you meditate because you think you should, you’re controlling your experience again, and you’ve squeezed all the value out of your meditation.
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Experience Manipulating Meditating Meditation Think Thinking
Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.
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Only Silence Teacher Teaching Time
You must choose between your attachments and happiness.
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Attachment Happiness Must Choose Positive Selected Thinking
The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.
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Actually Awakening Ego Freedom Irrelevant Nonexistent Ultimate
Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.
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Being Enlightenment Mean Truly Waking
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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Discovered Finality Minute Something Truth
Can you imagine if you really let it in that you are not a problem to be solved in any way? Imagine you knew that anything that would tell you otherwise is just a movement of thought in the mind that says “Whatever is, isn’t the way it is supposed to be.
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Compassion Imagine Know Peace Problem Self Solved Thing
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
This simply strengthens the ego. In fact, such conclusions arise from the ego itself. Pay no attention to them. Don’t go to war with yourself; simply inquire into who you are.
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Attention Conclusion Ego Enquire Fact Pay Simply Strengthens
As soon as you believe that a label you’ve put on yourself is true, you’ve limited something that is literally limitless, you’ve limited who you are into nothing but a thought.
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Believe Label Limited Limitless Literally Something
If you give yourself this gift of not knowing and you follow it, a vast spaciousness and mysterious openness dawns within you.
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Drawn Follow Gift Give Knowing Mysterious Openness Spaciousness Vast

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