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The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?

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You do it anyway. Why? Because you no longer want to suffer. Because you’re willing to be disturbed. You’re willing to be amazed. You’re willing to be surprised.
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Anyway Disturbed Longer Suffer Surprised Willing
In the same vein, my teachings are not meant to acquire followers or imitators, but to awaken beings to eternal truth and thus to awakened life and living.
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Acquire Awakened Eternal Follower Initiator Living Teaching
You’re willing to realize that maybe everything you’ve ever thought about yourself really isn’t true.
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Everything Realize True Willing
Whatever you can become will ultimately be destroyed. Only what you already are can’t be taken away.
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Already Away Destroyed Taken Ultimately
When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable. It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we are not relating from the truth. It’s a beautiful pointer. It never fails.
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Beautiful Mean Seeing Suffer Suffering Truth Valuable
Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretence. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.
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Anger Crumbling Enlightenment Eradication Everything Imagined Pretence
Awareness isn’t something we own; awareness isn’t something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.
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Actually Awareness Happen Possess Something
Our yearning for truth actually comes from truth.
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Actually Awakening Come Truly Truth Yearning
The process of finding the truth may not be a process by which we feel increasingly better and better. It may be a process by which we look at things honestly, sincerely, truthfully, and that may or may not be an easy thing to do.
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Better Easy Finding Increasingly Look May Process Truth
Fear is very often a part of the spiritual path. When people sit down and meditate it’s not at all uncommon for fear to arise at some point.
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Fear Meditate Often Path People Spiritual Uncommon Very
It has no intention to harmonize. It has no agenda. It just happens. The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda. Everything else will have an agenda.
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Agenda Everything Happen Harmonize Intention Truth
Enlightenment is the natural state of consciousness, the innocent state of consciousness, that state which is uncontaminated by the movement of thought, uncontaminated by control or manipulation of mind.
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Consciousness Enlightenment Innocent Mind Movement State
The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.
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Growth Really Requirement Spiritual Yearning
You lose your separateness, you lose your specialness, you lose the dream you have lived all your life. Eventually you lose everything that your mind has created and awaken to who you truly are: the fullness of freedom, unbound by any identifications, identities, or boundaries.
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Awaken Boundaries Dream Everything Life Lose Seeker Separateness Spiritual
What would happen if you were to allow everything to be exactly as it is? If you gave up the need for control, and instead embraced the whole of your experience in each moment that arose?
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Allow Anything Control Exactly Meditation Moment Need
What am I, really? The beautiful thing…is nobody can tell us what we are. Nobody can really tell us. Not in a way that’s going to be satisfactory to us. Our true nature is self-authenticating. When we bump into our true nature,
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Beautiful Beauty Nobody Nothing Really Self Tell Way

The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?

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