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

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Love causes us to be deeply connected in an unspoken way. It happens when we’re really available, really open.
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Available Cause Connected Deeply Happen Open Really Unspoken Way
Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.
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Burn Destruction Everything False Flame Fulfilment Love
Every time you claim, “I am this”, you just claimed another sense perception, thought, emotion, or feeling.
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Claim Claimed Emotion Feeling Perception Sense Time
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
Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier.
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Becoming Better Crumbling Destructive Enlightenment Process
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 you who is chasing enlightenment will never become enlightened. Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach,
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Chasing Distant Enlightenment Instead Arriving never Reach Toward
Thoughts in your head are really no different than the sound of a bird outside. It is just that you decide that they are more or less relevant.
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Bird Decide Different Outside Really Sound Thought
Embrace suffering, and you transform your relationship with what causes you to suffer, as well as your relationship with suffering itself.
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Cause Embrace Goal Relationship Suffer Suffering Transform
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
This movement of grasping and aversion gives rise to a sense of a separate ‘me,’ and in turn the sense of ‘me’ strengthens itself this way.
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Aversion Grasping Movement Rise Sense Separate Strengthens
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
Be a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don’t expect it to be easy or even noticed.
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Easy Expect Goodness Heart Noticed Representative
The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.
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Growth Really Requirement Spiritual Yearning
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
Serving the Truth becomes our life instead of just an isolated event. It takes the abstractness out of spirituality. That’s the opportunity of real spirituality: to be in service to the silence of the heart.
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Abstractness Heart Instead Isolated Opportunity Real Serving Spirituality

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

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