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“We could say that the totality, life wants the sapling to become a tree, but the sapling doesn't see itself as separate from life and so wants nothing for itself. It is one with what life wants. That's why it isn't worried or stressed. And, if it has to die prematurely, it dies with ease.”
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“As each human being is an integral part of the collective human consciousness, they affect the world much more deeply than is visible on the surface of their lives.”
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“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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“Many people who are going through the early stages of the awakening process are no longer certain what their outer purpose is. What drives the world no longer drives them. Seeing the madness of our civilization so clearly, they feel somewhat alienated from the culture around them. Some feel that they inhabit a no-man's-land between two worlds. They are no longer run by the ego, yet the arising awareness has not yet become fully integrated into their lives. Inner and outer purpose have not merged.”
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“The recognition of the false is already the arising of the real.”
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“Everything - a bird, a tree, even a simple stone, and certainly a human being - is ultimately unknowable. This is because it has unfathomable depth. All we can perceive, experience, think about, is the surface layer of reality, less than the tip of an iceberg. Underneath the surface appearance, everything is not only connected with everything else, but also with the Source of all life out of which it came. Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself.”
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“Why is old considered useless? Because in old age, the emphasis shifts from doing to Being, and our civilization, which is lost in doing, knows nothing of Being. It asks: Being? What do you do with it?”
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“Just as without silence there could be no sound, you would not exist without the vital formless dimension that is the essence of who you are.”
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“You will enjoy any activity in which you are fully present.”
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“Being aware of your breath forces you into the present moment - the key to all inner transformation. Whenever you are conscious of the breath, you are absolutely present. You may also notice that you cannot think and be aware of your breathing. Conscious breathing stops your mind.”
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“You might say, 'What a dreadful day', without realizing that the cold, the wind, and the rain or whatever condition you react to are not dreadful. They are as they are. What is dreadful is your reaction, your inner resistance to it, and the emotion that is created by that resistance.”
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“The decision to make the present moment into your friend is the end of ego.”
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“All you need to know and observe in yourself is this: Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that's the ego in you.”
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“When you say, 'I enjoy doing this or that', it is really a misperception. It makes it appear that the joy comes from what you do, but that is not the case. 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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“Strictly speaking, you don't think: Thinking happens to you.”
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“Thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence.”
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“There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right. Being right is identification with a mental position - a perspective, an opinion, a judgement, a story. For you to be right, of course, you need someone else to be wrong, as so the ego loves to make wrong in order to be right.”
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“The remnants of pain left behind by every strong negative emotion that is not fully faced, accepted, and then let go of join together to form an energy field that lives in the very cells of your body.”
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“Your inner purpose is an essential part of the purpose of the whole, the universe and its emerging intelligence. Your outer purpose can change over time. It varies greatly from person to person. Finding and living in alignment with the inner purpose is the foundation for fulfilling your outer purpose. It is the basis for true success.”
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“Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. This is why we may also call it Presence.”
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“Your primary purpose is to enable consciousness to flow into what you do. The secondary purpose is whatever you want to achieve through the doing.”
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“Whereas the notion of purpose before was always associated with future, there is now a deeper purpose that can only be found in the present, through denial of time.”
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“Awareness takes over from thinking. Instead of being in charge of your life, thinking becomes the servant of awareness.”
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“The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.”
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“The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting.”
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“What you encounter at your destination once you get there depends on the quality of this one step. Another way of putting it: What the future holds for you depends on your state of consciousness now.”
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“Thought began to take over and obscured the simple yet profound joy of connectedness with being.”
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“A short attention span makes all of your perceptions and relationships shallow and unsatisfying.”
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“I usually congratulate people when they tell me, "I don't know who I am anymore".”
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“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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“If action is possible or necessary, your action will be in alignment with the whole and supported by creative intelligence, the unconditioned consciousness which in a state of inner openness you become
one with. Circumstances and people then become helpful, cooperative. Coincidences happen.
If no action is possible, you rest in the peace and inner stillness that come with surrender.”
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“To love is to recognize yourself in another. The others "otherness" then stands revealed as an illusion pertaining to the purely human realm, the realm of form.”
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“If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.”
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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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“If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.”
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“Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.”
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“When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create?”
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“When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought.”
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“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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“Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. … The ultimate purpose of human existence, which is to say, your purpose, is to bring that power into this world.”
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“Man made God in his own image.”
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“Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.”
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“Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in your mind.”
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“Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.”
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“When another recognizes you, that recognition draws the dimension of Being more fully into this world through both of you. That is the love that redeems the world.”
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“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.”
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“You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.”
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“Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cant prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?”
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“Life is the dancer and you are the dance.”
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“Through the present moment, you have access to the power of life itself, that which has traditionally been called "God." As soon as you turn away from it, God ceases to be a reality in your life, and all you are left with is the mental concept of God, which some people believe in and others deny. Even belief in God is only a poor substitute for the living reality of God manifesting every moment of your life.”
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