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Truth is quite literally the only thing that does exist. It is not hidden but in plain view, not lacking but abundantly present.

Adyashanti

Only something as insane as human beings would ever asked themselves if ‘I’m good.’ You don’t find oak trees having existential crisis. ‘I feel so rotten about myself. I don’t produce as much acorns as the one next to me.’
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Being Good Human Insane Oak Rotten Themselves Tree
When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what’s left? A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are.
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Awakening Brightness Fade Idea Image Imagination Quietness
This moment in which you experience stillness is every moment. Don’t let the mind seduce you into the past or future. Stay in the moment, and dare to consider that you can be free now.
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Experience Future Mind Moment Past Seduce Stillness
If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.
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Chosen Leap Limitation Once Self
As if it were their job to be nice to you, you put yourself at odds with what is, and suffering will surely follow.
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Follow Job Od Suffer Surely Yourself
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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Hardest Loving Often Opening Person Reserve Student Time
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
Stop all delays, all seeking and all striving. Put down your concepts, ideas and beliefs. For one instant be still and directly encounter the silent unknown core of your being. In that instant Freedom will embrace you and reveal the Awakening that you are.
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Concept Delay Encounters Idea Instant Down Stop
The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being.
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Authentic Being Deeply Honest Mystery Positive Thinking
Most human beings have an imprinting that if they’re real, if they’re honest, somebody’s not gonna like it. And they won’t be able to control their environment if they tell the truth.
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Control Environment Honest Human Imprinting Somebody Truth
When you realize what you are now, the issue of death will solve itself.
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Death Issue Itself Now Realize Realizing Solve
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
We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world.
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Birthed Community Sacred Sangha World
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
What if you let go of every bit of control and every urge that you have, right down to the most infinitesimal urge to control anything, anywhere, including anything that may be happening with you at this moment?
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Control Down Giving Up Go Infinitesimal Letting Light Most Right
At each moment we are expressing what we know ourselves to be. If we know ourselves very little we will express and manifest that unconsciousness of our true nature.
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Each Express Expressing Little Moment Ourselves Simple

Truth is quite literally the only thing that does exist. It is not hidden but in plain view, not lacking but abundantly present.

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