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Freedom is a state of complete and absolute insecurity and not knowing. So, in seeking security and safety, you actually distance yourself from the freedom you want.

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At first it seems as if begoing follows becoming. But look even closer and you will see that there are only flashes of lightning illuminating the empty sky.
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Becoming Begging Closer First Flashes Follow Journey Seem Sky
If you were able to give up control absolutely, totally, and completely, then you would be a spiritually free being.
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Anything Anywhere Control Give Infinitesimal Right Urge
What the universe will manifest when you are in alignment with it is a lot more interesting than what you try to manifest
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Alignment Interesting Lot Manifest Support Trying
How do I integrate spirituality into my everyday life? Throw out the concept of “spiritual life” and “everyday life.” There is only life, undivided and whole.
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Everyday Integrate Integrating Life Spiritual
Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.
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Cannot Conspiracy Helping Misery Need Resistance Survive
The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears.
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Accepted Disappear Paradox Resistance
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
The separate self is just the conglomeration of these opposing forces. When the self drops away, inner division drops away with it.
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Away Conglomeration Division Force Opoosote Separate
Reality is always true to itself. When you’re in harmony with it, you experience bliss. As soon as you are not in harmony with it, you experience pain. This is the law of the universe; it is the way things are. Nobody gets out of this law.
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Always Bliss Experience Harmony Itself Limit Pain Reality Stress
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
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
I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn’t exist?
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Ask Avoiding Enlightenment Invite Moment Present
Life sustains itself. Let go of the ego and life takes care of itself through you.
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Care Ego Itself Letting Go Life Sustain
The you who is chasing enlightenment will never become enlightened. Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach,
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Chasing Distant Enlightenment Instead Arriving never Reach Toward
You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.
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Consciously Figure Greatest Incredible Joy Mystery
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

Freedom is a state of complete and absolute insecurity and not knowing. So, in seeking security and safety, you actually distance yourself from the freedom you want.

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