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The Truth is the only thing you'll ever run into that has no agenda.

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Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.

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The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.

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Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.

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

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

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Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it's about letting go of control.

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

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

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The main purpose of the illusion of me is to keep you at all costs from realizing your own nothingness.

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Every human being... the way they move in live, how they act, is completely dictated by what they value.

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

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

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The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?

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

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The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but it does change.

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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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Fear is very often a part of the spiritual path. When people sit down and meditate it's not at all uncommon for fear to arise at some point.

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Perhaps the most important element of any spiritual teaching is what we bring to it, because this dictates what the teaching will reveal within ourselves.

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Now don't think that awakening is the end. Awakening is the end of seeking, the end of the seeker, but it is the beginning of a life lived from your true nature.

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Awakened values are not really based in morality. They're not based in should or shouldn'ts. Awakened values are values that are inherent within conscious spirit.

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You can't get rid of thoughts, and you can't get rid of thinking. To battle your mind is one of the most deceptive ways that the mind keeps you in its own domain.

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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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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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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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It is the basics that are most important. Never leave this foundation. From this, an incredible depth is to be found - an ongoing revelation of the truth of existence.

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If we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn't that what silence is? It's a listening, a deep wordless listening.

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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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To have enough curiosity to start to question your deepest identity is absolutely vital and essential to spiritual awakening, and to the realization of peace and freedom.

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The mind is something that happens within you. Thinking is something that happens within what you are. Thinking does not define what you are. Thinking doesn't define anything.

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