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The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.

Adyashanti

The joke of it all is that you are looking from your true nature right now without knowing it. If you would stop being fascinated with the contents of your mind, you would experience what I am saying.
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Being Joke Knowing Nature Self Stop Thinking
That there is nothing to support, that the whole ego experience was a flimsy illusion. So you stand alone but are never, never lonely because everywhere you look, all you see is That, and you are That.
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Alone Ego Everywhere Experience Flimsy Illusion Lonely never Support Whole
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
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
True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.
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Experience Go Letting Manipulating Meditation Telling
In silence a question has great power, because in silence a question will always lead you deeper into your experience. If there is no grounding in silence, a spiritual question is going to lead you into your mind.
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Deeper Experience Great Mind Power Question Silence Spiritual
When the eternal and the human meet, that’s where love is born — not through escaping our humanity or trying to disappear into transcendence, but through finding that place where they come into union.
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Born Escaping Eternal Human Humanity Love Meet
The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but it does change.
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Anything Change Consciousness Light Mind Need Sense
Every time you claim, “I am this”, you just claimed another sense perception, thought, emotion, or feeling.
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Claim Claimed Emotion Feeling Perception Sense Time
Cessation of struggle is like free falling through space without a care in the world.
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Care Cessation Fall Falling Free Space Struggle World
All delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we’re talking to ourselves and then believing what we are saying.
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Based Believe Delusion Mind Ourselves Talking
Freedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom.
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Disappearance Freedom Searching Soul
We don’t come to nirvana by avoiding samsara. We don’t come to clarity by avoiding confusion.
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Avoid Avoiding Confusion Nirvana Samsara
Grace is something that comes to us when we somehow find ourselves completely available, when we become openhearted and open-minded, and are willing to entertain the possibility that we may not know what we think we know.
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Available Completely Grace May Ourselves Thinking
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
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
The aim of my teaching is enlightenment, awakening from the dream state of separateness into the reality of the One. In short, my teaching is focused on realizing what you are.
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Awakening Dream Enlightenment Reality Separateness Teaching
When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are. When I have a thought about you, that’s something I’ve created. I’ve turned you into an idea.
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Believe Experience Idea Other Really Thought World
The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears.
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Accepted Disappear Paradox Resistance
Inherent in the impulse to be free, is insecurity. The impulse to be free comes from outside of the mind, and because of this, it makes the mind feel very insecure.
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Come Impulse Insecure Internet Mind Moving Outside Spiritual
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
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
Be a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don’t expect it to be easy or even noticed.
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Easy Expect Goodness Heart Noticed Representative
If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume your mind’s clothing with more sooty knowledge.
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Burning Clothing Fire Intend Leave Mind Perfume Prefer
Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering.
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Anger Angry Confused Resist Sad Sadness
Faith is a withholding of conclusion so that you allow what is to arise.
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Arise Conclusion Faith Holding Withholding
Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.
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After Itself Seek Source Yearn Yearning

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