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#1. Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.

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#2. But look closely and you will find that your thinking and behavior are designed to keep the pain going, for yourself and others. If you were truly conscious of it, the pattern would dissolve, for to want more pain is insanity, and nobody is consciously insane.

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#3. Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.

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#4. Making it" in whatever field is only meaningful as long as there are thousands or millions of others who don't make it, so you need other human beings to "fail" so that your life can have meaning.

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#5. True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises and becomes an essential part of the relationship.

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#6. Even in a moment of stress, you can say, "OK, can I enjoy the doing itself? Can I enjoy the flow of energy of this moment?" And of course you can!

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#7. You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge. But it can only emerge if something fundamental changes in your state of consciousness.

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#8. Until presence becomes your predominant state, you may find yourself moving back and forth for a while between the old consciousness and the new, between mind identification and presence.

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#9. You will enjoy any activity in which you are fully present ...

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#10. Not all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they take you over completely, that is to say, when they become I.

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#11. Enlightenment means rising above thought, not falling back to a level below thought, the level of an animal or a plant.

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#12. Actually, the ability to choose presence depends on the degree of presence that's emerging in you. Ultimately, you are not choosing, there's nobody there to choose. When you think you are choosing, presence is simply emerging in that moment.

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#13. Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

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#14. Tragedy turns into comedy when you watch your own drama and realizing it as a mind-created fiction designed to create you a sense of identity.

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#15. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?

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#16. If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

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#17. When you are aligned with the now internally, when you take responsibility for this moment, then life is helpful and tends to bring you what you need.

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#18. Joy is uncaused and arises from within as the joy of Being. It is an essential part of the inner state of peace, the state that has been called the peace of God. It is your natural state, not something that you need to work hard for or struggle to attain.

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#19. Honoring the moment is honoring every human being you meet. The only place where you can meet them is in the moment.

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#20. On the new Earth, as the awakened consciousness comes in, I would say the ego would develop in children and quickly become outgrown when they reach adulthood.

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#21. Things and conditions can give you pleasure, but they will also give you pain. Things and conditions can give you pleasure, but they cannot give you joy. Nothing can give you joy. Joy is uncaused and arises from within as the joy of Being.

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#22. Struggle or stress is a sign that the ego has returned, as are negative reactions when we encounter obstacles

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#23. Instead of trying to be a mountain, teaches the ancient Tao Te Ching, "Be the valley of the universe."4 In this way, you are restored to wholeness and so "all things will come to you.

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#24. Is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it,

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#25. A work of art comes out of a state of deep stillness.

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#26. Life is now. There was never a time
when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.

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#27. People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

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#28. Peace is your priority, not saving the world. That follows that.

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#29. Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you.

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#30. Man made God in his own image...

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#31. Waiting is a state of mind that says we want what we don't have. Therefore, with every kind of waiting we produce an inner conflict between now and the projected future. This greatly reduces the quality of our life. Are you a 'habitual waiter'?

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#32. War is a mind-set, and all action that comes out of such a mind-set will either strengthen the enemy, the perceived evil, or, if the war is won, will create a new enemy, a new evil equal to and often worse than the one that was defeated.

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#33. The oak tree or the eagle would be bemused by such a question. "What time?" they would ask. "Well, of course, it's now. The time is now. What else is there?

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#34. Every morning we awaken from sleep and from our dreams and enter the state we call wakefulness. A continuous stream of thoughts, most of them repetitive, characterizes the normal wakeful state.

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#35. Awareness is conscious connection with universal intelligence. Another word for it is Presence: consciousness without thought.

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#36. If you cannot feel your emotions, if you are cut off from them, you will eventually experience them on a purely physical level, as a physical problem or symptom.

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#37. Acceptance of the unacceptable is the greatest source of grace in this world.

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#38. The mind-identified state is severely dysfunctional.

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#39. If people believe the world is here to satisfy them, whenever they begin to encounter their limitations, they become unhappy.

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#40. The Buddha says that pain or suffering arises through desire or craving and that to be free of pain we need to cut the bonds of desire."-Eckhart Tolle

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#41. Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time.

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#42. To love is to recognize yourself in another.

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#43. Future success is dependent upon and inseparable from the consciousness out of which the actions emanate

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#44. Egos are drawn to bigger egos.

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#45. The recognition of the false is already the arising of the real.

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#46. Authentic human interactions become impossible when you lose yourself in a role.

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#47. Stillness is your essential nature. What is stillness? The inner space or awareness in which the words on this page are being perceived and become thoughts. Without that awareness, there would be no perception, no thoughts, no world. You are that awareness, disguised as a person.

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#48. Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.

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#49. It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept - before they will forgive.

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#50. Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.

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#51. Just as dogs love to chew bones, the mind loves to get its teeth into problems. That's why it does crossword puzzles and builds atom bombs.

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#52. You don't have to wait for something "meaningful" to come into your life so that you can finally enjoy what you do. There is more meaning in joy than you will ever need. The "waiting to start living" syndrome is one of the most common delusions of the unconscious state.

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#53. Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.

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#54. I had been anxious and depressed for years and suddenly I was deeply at peace

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#55. Everything flows with much greater ease when people live as one with the present moment.

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#56. And the ego's greatest enemy of all is, of course, the present moment, which is to say, life itself.

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#57. If you are not taking responsibility for your state of consciousness, you are not taking responsibility for life.

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#58. What the world doesn't tell you - because it doesn't know - is that you cannot become successful. You can only be successful.

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#59. abundance comes only to those who already have it

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#60. Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness

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#61. Whenever you deeply accept this moment as it is - no matter what form it takes - you are still, you are at peace.

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#62. I try to find myself in things but never quite make it and end up losing myself in them. That is the fate of the ego.

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#63. Not what you do, but how you do what you do determines whether you are fulfilling your destiny. And how you do what you do is determined by your state of consciousness.

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#64. To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer the universe.

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#65. God is beyond all the forms of life, but also indwells every form of life as their essence. God is both beyond and within.

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#66. When you complain, you make yourself a victim. When you speak out, you are in power.

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#67. When your attention moves into the Now, there is an alertness. It is as if you were waking up from a dream, the dream of thought, the dream of past and future. Such clarity, such simplicity. No room for problem-making. Just this moment as it is.

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#68. A significant portion of the earth's population will soon recognize, if they haven't already done so, that humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die.

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#69. It always looks as if people had a choice, but that is an illusion. As long as your mind with its conditioned patterns runs your life, as long as you are your mind, what choice do you have?

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#70. Love and do what you will,

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#71. Knowing the oneness of yourself and the other is true love, true care, true compassion.

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#72. Suffering begins when you mentally label a situation as bad. That causes an emotional contraction. When you let it be, without naming it, enormous power is available to you. The contraction cuts you off from that power, the power of life itself.

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#73. the root of suffering is to be found in our constant wanting and craving.

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#74. The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind.

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#75. The unchecked striving for more, for endless growth, is a dysfunction and a disease. It is the same dysfunction the cancerous cell manifests, whose only goal is to multiply itself, unaware that it is bringing about its own destruction by destroying the organism of which it is a part.

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#76. You pick up the phone and you talk to somebody. There's a voice on the other end and you say what you have to say. This is how I perceive my life. I don't see myself as "Oh, I'm doing this great thing because I'm going to give this talk, now everybody's going to be transformed."

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#77. Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

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#78. When one child says to another, "I can do this, I bet you can't"; "My dad has a bigger car than yours"; or, "My dad is stronger than yours." Children identify with this or that, trying to build up a sense of self - a mentally defined sense of self.

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#79. To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

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#80. When there is stress, it is usually a sign that the ego has returned, and you are cutting yourself off from the creative power of the universe.

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#81. You find God the moment you realize that you don't need to seek God

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#82. The whole movement of happiness, unhappiness, happiness, unhappiness, could be called unhappiness. You're suffering because your state of mind is in flux, moving back and forth. The ego's happiness is really a form of suffering, because it cannot live without unhappiness.

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#83. When forms begin to crumble there is always an opportunity for great deepening. By deepening I mean the arising of who you are beyond form.

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#84. Enthusiasm cannot be a continuous state. It comes in waves.

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#85. As far as inner transformation is concerned, there is nothing you can do about it. You cannot transform yourself, and you certainly cannot transform your partner or anybody else. All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.

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#86. The realm of consciousness is much vaster than thought can grasp. When you no longer believe everything you think, you step out of thought and see clearly that the thinker is not who you are.

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#87. True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.

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#88. No excuses. No negativity. No psychic pollution. Keep your inner space clear.

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#89. Thinking is no more than a tiny aspect of the totality of consciousness, the totality of who you are.

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#90. It's interesting that stepping out of thought was actually triggered by a thought.

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#91. As you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. It means fear is no longer a dominant factor in what you do and no longer prevents you from taking action to initiate change.

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#92. true love, which has no opposite because it arises from beyond the mind.

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#93. Fed up with being unhappy. Some people may feel, as I did, that they cannot live with themselves anymore. Inner peace then becomes their first priority.

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#94. Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment. It is part of the isness of the Now. You can't argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.

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#95. Whatever is arising in this moment, whatever condition, is part of the isness of life and therefore accepting it fully makes you an expression of the enormous power of life itself-true intelligence, which only comes when you stop obstructing the power of the present moment.

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#96. Through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future - which, of course, can only be experienced as the Now.

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#97. Become conscious of being conscious.

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#98. The mind unconsciously loves problems because they give you an identity of sorts.

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#99. There have been many people for whom limitations, failure, loss, or pain in whatever form turned out to be their greatest teacher. It taught them to let go of false self-images and superficial ego-dictated goals and desires. It gave them depth, humility and compassion. It made them more real.

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#100. I don't have enough yet," by which the ego really means, "I am not enough yet.

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