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To see things as you see them or to see things differently—until you have given the whole world its freedom—you’ll never have your freedom.

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A spiritual teaching is a finger pointing toward Reality; it is not Reality itself. To be in a true and mature relationship with a spiritual teaching requires you to apply it, not simply believe in it.
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Believe Finger Mature Pointing Relationship Spiritual Teaching True
When we really start to take a look at who we think we are, we become very grace prone.
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Grace Look Prone Reality Self Start Thinking
We realize–often quite suddenly–that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who we are. It doesn’t define us, it has no center.
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Constructed Formed Idea Quite Realize Self Sense Suddenly
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
Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.
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Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness
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Consciousness Enlightenment State
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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The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.
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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
My teacher used to say ‘all love is bittersweet’. All things experienced fully, reveal their opposite.
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Nothingness is an absolute infinite potential, not an empty box.
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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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The beautiful thing about the truth of being is that it’s so unimaginably immediate.
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The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda.
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When you discover yourself to be nothing but Freedom, you stop setting up conditions and requirements that need to be satisfied in order for you to be happy.
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Anyone Condition Discover Freedom Happy Holding Requirement Satisfied Setting Yourself
So the biggest act of compassion starts within. And when the self is no longer seen as a problem, this is called “the peace that passes all understanding.
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Biggest Compassion Longer Peace Problem Seen Start Understanding

To see things as you see them or to see things differently—until you have given the whole world its freedom—you’ll never have your freedom.

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