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Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.

Adyashanti

If we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn’t that what silence is? It’s a listening, a deep wordless listening.
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Around Conditioned Deeply Listen Listening Look Silence
Serving the Truth becomes our life instead of just an isolated event. It takes the abstractness out of spirituality. That’s the opportunity of real spirituality: to be in service to the silence of the heart.
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Abstractness Heart Instead Isolated Opportunity Real Serving Spirituality
The door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of that uncertainty and all wisdom will be yours.
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Anything Door Grace Insecurity Knowing Spiritual Uncertainty Wisdom
Meditation is a teaching which offers you the possibility of breaking free of this egoic state of consciousness and coming into a whole new realization of who and what you truly are. And all this starts with the willingness to question.
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Consciousness Egoic Meditation Offer Possibility Realization Teaching
You can’t look at what’s looking. You can’t think about that which is prior to thought.
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Look Looking Prior Think Thinking Thought
When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.
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Emptiness Eternity Love Move Moving Still
There is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.
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Apart Conscious Consciousness Individual
As you peel it back, in the heart of nothing, that is love. You are what you are seeking. Life is a set up so that each of us can actually see in ourselves the truth for ourselves.
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Each Heart Life Love Nothing Peel Seeking Taken You
Meditation is not something restricted to times of formal seated meditation; it is most fundamentally an attitude of being-a resting in and as being. Once you get the feel of it, you will be able to tune into it more and more often during your daily life.
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Attitude Fundamentally Meditation Restricted Something Tune
It is easy to imagine that the Buddha, the awakened one, is something or somewhere other than here or that awakening to reality will happen sometime other than now. But as long as we continue to think in terms of time we will deceive ourselves.
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Awakened Buddha One Reality Somewhere Thinking Time
Your life, all of your life, is your path to awakening. By resisting or not dealing with its challenges, you stay asleep to Reality. Pay attention to what life is trying to reveal to you. Say yes to its fierce, ruthless, and loving grace.
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Awakening Challenge Dealing Grace Life Reality
A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom.
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Heart Integrity Married Mind Quiet Wisdom
Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.
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Box Compassion Empty Frantic Infinite Life
It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the rabid dissatisfaction with living anything less than a fully authentic life.
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Bliss Enlightenment Grantor Happiness Pursuit Reality State Yearning
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
Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.
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Absolute Abyss Awareness Knowing Naturally Potential Return State

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