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As I often tell my students, the person you’ll have the hardest time opening to and truly loving without reserve is yourself. Once you can do that, you can love the whole universe unconditionally.

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It authenticates itself. Something inside us knows. This…is what has been sought for, longed for, looked for. This is it. Usually, it’s not what we expected.
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Authenticate Expected Longed Looked Something Sought Usually
Until we start to see these false perceptions for what they really are, consciousness will be imprisoned within the dream state.
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Consciousness Deam False Imprisoned Perception Really State
Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.
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Box Compassion Empty Frantic Infinite Life
If you think that people should be nice to one another, then by all means be nice. But when you project that belief onto the people and the world around you as if it were an objective reality, or worse still.
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Another Belief Job Mean Nice One Project Think
In order to be truly free, you must desire to know the truth more than you want to feel good. Because, if feeling good is your goal, then as soon as you feel better you will lose interest in what is true.
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Desire Feel Good Integrity Mean More Order Real
The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.
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Challenge Most Seeker Spiritual Struggle Struggling
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
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
Many Sages have said, “Your world is a dream. You’re living in an illusion.” They’re referring to this world of the mind and the way we believe our thoughts about reality.
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Believe Dream Ilusion Living Many Reality Referring Sages
You are the doorway to the infinite.
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You will only lose when you resist reality; you will only struggle when you disagree with what is.
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Disagree Lose Loses Reality Resist Struggle
Concentration is a way in which we are actually directing or guiding or controlling our experience. Meditation is letting go of control, letting go of guiding our experience in any way whatsoever. The foundation of True Meditation is that we are letting go of control.
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Concentration Control Directing Experience Guiding Meditation Way
Ego is neither positive nor negative. Those are simply concepts that create more boundaries. Ego is just ego, and the disaster of it all is that you, as a spiritual seeker, have been conditioned to think of the ego as bad, as an enemy, as something to be destroyed.
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Boundaries Concept Create Ego Positive Spiritual Thinking War
To remain unconscious of being is to remain asleep to our own reality and therefore asleep to reality at large. The choice is simple: awaken to being or sleep an endless sleep.
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Asleep Choice Endless Large Reality Remain Sleep Unconcious
The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.
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When you see that everything is a momentary display of reality, then you stop resisting it. Resistance hurts, only every single time. Love is the state of nonresistance.
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Love Maintain Sorrow State Trying Unpleasant

As I often tell my students, the person you’ll have the hardest time opening to and truly loving without reserve is yourself. Once you can do that, you can love the whole universe unconditionally.

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As I often tell my students, the person you’ll have the hardest time opening to and truly loving without reserve is yourself. Once you can do that, you can love the whole universe unconditionally.

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