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#1. This world is not my concern; it is myself.

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#2. The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being..

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#3. The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.

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#4. Love moves without an agenda. It just moves because that is its nature to move.

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#5. Our own intuition of what we're called to is reality speaking to us individually and perfectly. We have to listen to how the Infinite talks to us and leads us. Reality, Life the Infinite, God, has a way of leading us in just the perfect way, if we will only just listen to it.

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#6. Enlightenment is a destructive process. It
has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the
crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing
through the facade of pretence. It's the
complete eradication of everything we
imagined to be true.

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#7. True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.

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#8. Completion comes when we not just wake up from all form, from all identification, but when love causes us to re-embrace it all.

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#9. When you let go of the egoic self what you're getting in exchange is the whole universe.

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#10. When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable. It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we are not relating from the truth. It's a beautiful pointer. It never fails.

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#11. There's something more to life than what we see on the surface.

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#12. The Truth doesn't answer anything. The Truth IS everything!

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#13. What is required after a glimpse of awakening is radical honesty, a willingness to look at how we unenlighten ourselves, how we bring ourselves back into the gravitational force of the dream state, how we allow ourselves to be divided.

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#14. The silence inside of you is the sound of your knowledge collapsing. Remember, it is you who said, 'I want to be free.'

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#15. When you inquire 'Who am I?' if you are honest, you'll notice that it takes you right back to silence instantly. The brain doesn't have an answer, so all of a sudden there is silence.

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#16. The changeless is what knows the change, the changeless is unconditioned

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#17. When you realize what you are now, the issue of death will solve itself.

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#18. The Way of Liberation is not a belief system; it is something to be put into practice.

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#19. Whatever you think you are, that's not it.

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#20. Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.

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#21. Doubt is always accompanied by a pervasive cynicism that unconsciously puts a negative spin on whatever it touches.

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#22. 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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#23. This awake silence is available to anyone in this moment.
All you have to do is stop using your mind to look for it.
It doesn't know where to find it.

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#24. How do I integrate spirituality into my everyday life? Throw out the concept of "spiritual life" and "everyday life." There is only life, undivided and whole.

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#25. Awareness isn't something we own; awareness isn't something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.

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#26. Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true. It is the way Life suggests that you are not in harmony with what is.

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#27. In the original Greek, one of the meanings of sin [hamartia] is simply to miss the mark.

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#28. Many Sages have said, "Your world is a dream. You're living in an illusion." They're referring to this world of the mind and the way we believe our thoughts about reality. When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are.

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#29. In the heart of a human being,
emptiness becomes love.
When we touch that Source,
instantly the love is present.
Literally, the divine becomes human
and the human becomes divine.

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#30. Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.

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#31. You think that enlightenment is something other than what is happening right now. This is your primary mistake.

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#32. What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.

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#33. The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears.

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#34. Whatever you resist, persists.

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#35. Have you noticed, with whatever quality of love you have experienced, that when true love arises, it opens up both your mind and emotions? It's an openness to whatever is happening.

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#36. Faith is a withholding of conclusion so that you allow what is to arise.

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#37. In the end it's all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don't.

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#38. The mind may accept or deny that you are awareness, but either way it can't really understand. It cannot comprehend. Thought cannot comprehend what is beyond thought.

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#39. 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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#40. Many people think that it is the function of a spiritual teaching to provide answers to life's biggest questions,
but actually, the opposite is true.
The primary task of any good spiritual teaching is not to
answer your questions, but to question your answers.

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#41. You are not your story.
They are not your story about them.
The world is not your story about the world.

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#42. Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness

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#43. Take the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you.

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#44. To find out that you are empty of emptiness is to die into an aware mystery, which is the source of all existence.

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#45. The greatest dream that we can have is to forget that we are dreaming.

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#46. As long as you are trying to become, trying to get somewhere, trying to attain something, you are quite literally moving away from the Truth itself.

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#47. The goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.

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#48. Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?

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#49. If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.

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#50. If you have any image of what the Truth is, slay it immediately because that's not it.

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#51. We think there's someplace other than here to get to - that's what drives the whole pursuit. Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being, pure consciousness. This is actually the very substance of your own self and being.

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#52. The first stage of the awakening journey is the calling. The calling arrives when we first feel that spiritual impulse that galvanizes our attention. All of a sudden we sense a greater mystery to life that we seek to experience more deeply; it literally calls us.

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

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#54. You are the doorway to the infinite.

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#55. We can only start to allow consciousness to wake up from its identification with thought and feeling, with body and mind and personality, by allowing ourselves to rest in the natural state from the very beginning.

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#56. I often describe the Absolute as Pure Infinite Potential, prior to being or becoming anything. It is forever unborn, yet gives birth to all of existence. About our ultimate nature nothing can be said; it must be revealed.

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#57. 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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#58. There is an invitation beyond the wall of knowledge, which is not to some regressive state before the mind can operate, but a transcendent state that's beyond where the mind can go. That's what spirituality is. It's going where the mind cannot go.

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#59. Religion's primary function is to awaken within us the experience of the sublime and to connect us with the mystery of existence.

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#60. What you run away from owns you. You are the dog on a leash. The most you can do is to tug against the leash.

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#61. When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.

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#62. If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.

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#63. No one can give you the strength of character necessary ... Only you can find that passion within that burns with an integrity that will not settle for anything less than the Truth.

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#64. What is really important you can't understand with your mind.

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#65. 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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#66. At any moment, we are either giving humanity the gift of our clarity or our confusion. And that clarity or confusion is affecting the humanity around us, the world around us. It is manifesting. It is taking form.

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#67. Jesus said, "I have cast fire upon the world, and see, I am guarding it until it blazes." GOSPEL OF THOMAS

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#68. True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.

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#69. 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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#70. We must become expressions of, not consumers of, realization.

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#71. Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.

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#72. There is nothing wrong with thought and it can be used whenever necessary. But in every moment you can choose to follow your thoughts or you can recognize that which is not thinking. Don't try to stop thinking, let it happen. Just recognize that which is not thinking.

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#73. All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.

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#74. Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.

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#75. You can't look at what's looking. You can't think about that which is prior to thought.

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#76. What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make through personal investigation.

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#77. Stop all doing and be still. Let the fire of stillness burn everything and reveal That which is Openness.

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#78. As soon as the mind pulls out an agenda and decides what needs to change, that's unreality. Life doesn't need to decide who's right and who's wrong. Life doesn't need to know the "right" way to go because it's going there anyway.

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#79. Meditation is neither a means to an end nor something to perfect. Meditation done correctly is an expression of Reality, not a path to it. Meditation done incorrectly is a perfect mirror of how you are resisting the present moment, judging it, or attaching to it.

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#80. The realization of Truth and Reality can never be created by the mind ... it always comes as a gift of grace. Inquiry clears away misperceptions and illusions, making one available to the movements of grace.

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#81. True Meditation is the space in which everything gets revealed, everything gets seen, everything gets experienced. And as such, it lets go of itself. We don't even let go. It lets go of itself.

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#82. The perspective of Love doesn't leave anybody out. Until your vision and compassion is big enough to include those who oppose you, you are simply contributing to the continuation of destructiveness . The end of separation is the salvation for all.

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#83. 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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#84. This is how I love you, and this is how you shall love all beings and all things.

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#85. As Jesus says in the Gospel of Thomas, "If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you." [Gospel of Thomas 70]

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#86. Because of an innocent misunderstanding you think that you are a human being in the relative world seeking the experience of oneness, but actually you are the One expressing itself as the experience of being a human being.

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#87. The liberating truth is not static; it is alive. It cannot be put into concepts and be understood by the mind. The truth lies beyond all forms of conceptual fundamentalism. What you are is the beyond - awake and present, here and now already.

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#88. Life itself is nothing but relationship.

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#89. Again, the only way to know that we've seen into the true nature of something is that the story we're telling ourselves releases.

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#90. Question your thoughts.
Question your stories.
Question your assumptions.
Question your opinions.
Question your conclusions.
Question them all into utter emptiness, stillness and joy.
The keys to freedom are in your hands.
Use them.

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#91. You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.

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#92. Spirituality does not require that you work hard toward achieving a result in the future as much as it requires you to be fully present, sincere and committed now, with absolute honesty and willingness to uncover and let go of any illusions that come between you and the realization of Reality.

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#93. A meditative mind is at ease because it's not trying to acquire anything.

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#94. There is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.

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#95. Life sustains itself. Let go of the ego and life takes care of itself through you.

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#96. In True Meditation, we're in the body as a means to transcend it. It is paradoxical that the greatest doorway to the transcendence of form is through form itself.

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#97. There's a fierceness about life that calls for a fierceness to not anxiously solve it but to allow it to transform you.

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#98. 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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#99. Space and stillness is the light that illuminates the beauty of our soul's being.

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#100. 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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