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When we really start to take a look at who we think we are… we start to see that while we may have various thoughts, beliefs, and identities, they do not individually or collectively tell us who we are.

Adyashanti

The middle way is an invitation to leap beyond nirvana and samsara and to realize the unborn Buddha mind right in the middle of everywhere.
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Beyond Buddha Everywhere Invitation Middle Unborn
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
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
Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.
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Only Silence Teacher Teaching Time
What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make through personal investigation.
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Able Discovery Matter Mimic People Practice Spiritual Spirituality
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
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
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
When you begin to become conscious, more aware, when your eyes begin to open, the first thing you see is how deluded you are and how much you’re holding onto that which makes you suffer. This is, in many ways, the most important step: Are you willing to be aware?
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Aware Begin Conscious Eye First Important Suffering Thing
The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.
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Being Heart Life Lover True
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
Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.
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Death Dress Dresses Meditation Rehearsal
Most human beings spend their lives battling with opposing inner forces: what they think they should do versus what they are doing; how they feel about themselves versus how they are; whether they think they’re right and worthy or wrong and unworthy.
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Batting Division Force Human Opposing Self Thinking Versus
[And yet] it is astounding how completely we humans define ourselves by the content of our minds, feelings, and history.
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Astounding Completely Content Define Feeling History Mind Ourselves
At a certain point we need to grow up; we need to look inside ourselves for our inner guidance. There are things most human beings know; they just don’t want to know them.
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Certain Grow Growing Guidance Inner Inside Look Need Ourselves Point Up
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

When we really start to take a look at who we think we are… we start to see that while we may have various thoughts, beliefs, and identities, they do not individually or collectively tell us who we are.

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When we really start to take a look at who we think we are… we start to see that while we may have various thoughts, beliefs, and identities, they do not individually or collectively tell us who we are.

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