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Cessation of struggle is like free falling through space without a care in the world.

Adyashanti

Most people don’t get out of childhood, or adolescence, without being wounded for telling the truth. Someone says ‘you can’t say that’ or ‘you shouldn’t say that’ or ‘that wasn’t appropriate’.
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Adolescence Behind Childhood Inner Ourselves People Real Thread
A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.
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Acceptance Self Total Transcendence Yourself
You can’t look at what’s looking. You can’t think about that which is prior to thought.
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Look Looking Prior Think Thinking Thought
It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the rabid dissatisfaction with living anything less than a fully authentic life.
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Bliss Enlightenment Grantor Happiness Pursuit Reality State Yearning
Doubt is always accompanied by a pervasive cynicism that unconsciously puts a negative spin on whatever it touches.
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Accomplained Always Cynicism Doubt Negative Spin Touch Unconsciously
Ego is neither positive nor negative. Those are simply concepts that create more boundaries. Ego is just ego, and the disaster of it all is that you, as a spiritual seeker, have been conditioned to think of the ego as bad, as an enemy, as something to be destroyed.
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Boundaries Concept Create Ego Positive Spiritual Thinking War
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
The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.
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Awakening Barrier Belief Biggest Rare Something
This world is not my concern; it is myself.
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Concern Myself World
To awaken to the absolute view is profound and transformative, but to awaken from all fixed points of view is the birth of true non-duality. If emptiness cannot dance, it is not true emptiness.
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Absolute Awaken Dream Fixed Night Point Profound Sky
The door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of that uncertainty and all wisdom will be yours.
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Anything Door Grace Insecurity Knowing Spiritual Uncertainty Wisdom
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
When someone tells you, ‘I love you,’ and then you feel, ‘Oh, I must be worthy after all,’ that’s an illusion. That’s not true. Or someone says, ‘I hate you,’ and you think, ‘Oh, God, I knew it; I’m not very worthy,’ that’s not true either.
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Feel Hate Illusion Lov Someone Tell Uplifting You
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
Truth is not over there, wherever over there is. Truth is neither housed in religious rituals nor secret doctrines, nor in a guru’s touch or beatific smile, nor in exotic locations or ancient temples.
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Doctrine Housed Religious Secret Truth View
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

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