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Nobody can give us what we really already are. Wouldn’t it be terrible if somebody could give you what you really are? …’cause if they could give it to you, they could take it away.

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There is, quite literally, nothing to understand.
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Literally Nothing Quite Understand
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
The important thing is allowing the whole world to wake up. Part of allowing the whole world to wake up is recognizing that the whole world is free,
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Allowing Hate Important Love Recognization Wake Whole World You
We must become expressions of, not consumers of, realization.
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Become Consumer Expression Must Realization
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
A few minutes ago, you knew who you were-you had a history and a personality-but from this place of not knowing, you question all of that.
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Few History Knowing Minute Personality Place Question
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
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
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
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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Ask Intimate Most Power Question Self 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
Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully.
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Air Aquire Breathe Health Knowledge Life Love Lung Order Wisdom
This one question-‘What do I know for certain?’-is tremendously powerful. When you look deeply into this question, it actually destroys your world. It destroys your whole sense of self, and it’s meant to.
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Deeply Dream Inspiring Power Powerful Question Tremendously
The truth is you can’t try to let go. Trying is the opposite of letting go. To let go is to relinquish trying. To let go is much more like to let be.
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Go Letting Opposite Opposites Relinquish Truth Trying
Human beings have a drive for security and safety, which is often what fuels the spiritual search. This very drive for security and safety is what causes so much misery and confusion.
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Distance Fuel Human Often Search Security Spiritual Thinking
The Way of Liberation is not a belief system; it is something to be put into practice.
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Belief Liberation Practice Put Something System Way
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
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
Imagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.
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Come Imagine Silence Trusting Up
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
You will only lose when you resist reality; you will only struggle when you disagree with what is.
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Disagree Lose Loses Reality Resist Struggle
Thoughts are just moving through consciousness. They have no power. Nothing has reality until you reach it, grab it, and somehow impregnate it with the power of belief.
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Belief Consciousness Moving Power Reality Thought
Usually we think that we are looking at a tree, but the tree is looking at itself through us. Without this instrument, the tree does not get to see itself. We are sensing instruments of the Divine.
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Divine Instrument Looking Think Tree
Silence and stillness are not states and therefore cannot be produced or created. Silence is the non-state in which all states arise and subside. Silence, stillness and awareness are not states and can never be perceived in their totality as objects.
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Created Meditation Mind Produced Silence Stillness
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 you see that everything is a momentary display of reality, then you stop resisting it. Resistance hurts, only every single time. Love is the state of nonresistance.
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Love Maintain Sorrow State Trying Unpleasant
When you let go of the egoic self what you’re getting in exchange is the whole universe.
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exchange Go Letting Self Universe Whole

Nobody can give us what we really already are. Wouldn’t it be terrible if somebody could give you what you really are? …’cause if they could give it to you, they could take it away.

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