Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to “die before you die” and find that there is no death.
ECKHART TOLLEWhenever you interact with people, don’t be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.
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This, too, will pass.
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Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.
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Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.
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If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.
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What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.
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To love is to recognize yourself in another.
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What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.
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Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.
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You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.
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Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.
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Man made God in his own image.
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Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.
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Awareness is the greatest agent for change.
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The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
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You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.
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