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You don’t awaken, what has eternally been awake realizes itself. That which is eternally awake is what you are.

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Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.
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Box Compassion Empty Frantic Infinite Life
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
The biggest embrace of love you’ll ever make is to embrace yourself completely. Then you’ll realize you’ve just embraced the whole universe, and everything and everybody in it.
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Biggest Completely Embrace Love Realize Realizing Universe
In the end it’s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t.
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End Giving Ourselves Silence Simple
We must become expressions of, not consumers of, realization.
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Become Consumer Expression Must Realization
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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Exist Hidden Lacking Literally Only Present Quite Truth
A spiritual teaching is a finger pointing toward Reality; it is not Reality itself. To be in a true and mature relationship with a spiritual teaching requires you to apply it, not simply believe in it.
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Believe Finger Mature Pointing Relationship Spiritual Teaching True
We think there’s someplace other than here to get to—that’s what drives the whole pursuit.
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Pursuit Self Someplace Think Thinking Truth
Grief, unresisted, is grace. It doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt anymore, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t rip your heart out….In great grief, there’s an incredible love in it. In love there’s a tinge of bitter. In true love.
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Anymore Grace Grief Heart Hurt Out Rip Teacher Unresisted
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
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
As if some dreadful fate would overcome us if we were to face the pure light of truth and lay bare our fearful clinging to illusion.
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Bare Dreadful Fearful Illusion Light Overcome Pure Some
You are not your story. They are not your story about them. The world is not your story about the world.
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Stories Story Them World
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
This one question-‘What do I know for certain?’-is tremendously powerful. When you look deeply into this question, it actually destroys your world. It destroys your whole sense of self, and it’s meant to.
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Deeply Dream Inspiring Power Powerful Question Tremendously
The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.
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Being Heart Life Lover True
Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.
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Awareness Creativity Experience Expression Itself Yield
To pause for just a moment and realize that maybe you aren’t who you imagine yourself to be.
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Imagine Moment Pause Realize Yourself
There is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.
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Apart Conscious Consciousness Individual
Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.
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Being End Enlightenment More Natural Nothing State
It is good to remember that the goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.
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Buddha Buddhist Christian Christianity Create Goal Good Remember Teaching
To be here, all you have to do is let go of who you think you are. That’s all! And then you realize, “I’m here.” Here is where thoughts aren’t believed. Every time you come here, you are nothing.
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Go Here Integrity Letting Realize Thinking Time Zero
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
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
The unknown, our own true nature, has the capacity to wake itself up when you start to fall in love with letting go of all the mental structures you hold onto. Contemplate this: there is no such thing as a true belief.
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Capasitymitself Fall Go Letting Nature Spiritual True Unknown Wisdom
The truth is that you already are what you are seeking. You are looking for God with his eyes. I suggest you ask, “What’s ultimately behind this set of eyes?” Turn around to see what is looking.
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Already Ask Eye God Looking Suggest Truth Turn
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

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