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This book delves into the concepts of spiritual evolution and awakening, offering insights into achieving a higher state of consciousness and living a more fulfilling life.
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“Being must be felt. It can't be thought.”
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“Nonresistance is the key to the greatest power in the universe.”
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“Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem. Whenever 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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“Become conscious of being conscious.”
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“It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose the ability to sense the interconnectedness of all that exists.”
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“Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.”
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“And then there is the universal role of adult. When you play that role, you take yourself and life very seriously. Spontaneity, lightheartedness, and joy are not part of that role.”
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“Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.”
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“This, too, will pass.”
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“Doing is never enough if you neglect Being.”
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“The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.”
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“Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.”
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“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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“Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.”
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“You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means to protect, enhance, or conform to your role identity.”
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“The ego wants to want more than it wants to have.”
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“A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine relationship, there is an outward flow of open, alert attention toward the other person in which there is no wanting whatsoever.”
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“You have so much to learn from your enemies.”
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“Awareness is the greatest agent for change.”
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“The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist.”
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“Authentic human interactions become impossible when you lose yourself in a role.”
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“every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in.”
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“The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality becomes, and the more deadened you become to reality”
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“Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much. Language consists of five basic sounds produced by the vocal cords. They are the vowels a, e, i, o, u. The other sounds are consonants produced by air pressure: s, f, g, and so forth. Do you believe some combination of such basic sounds could ever explain who you are, or the ultimate purpose of the universe, or even what a tree or stone is in its depth?”
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“In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.”
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“Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary.”
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“Each person's life – each lifeform, in fact – represents a world, a unique way in which the universe experiences itself.”
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“That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the end of insanity.”
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“Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.”
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“The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.”
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“When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn't work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life-form -- or a species -- will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap.”
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“To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.”
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“So love is the recognition of oneness in a world of duality. This is the birth of God into the world of form. Love makes the world less worldly, less dense, more transparent to the divine dimension, the light of consciousness itself.”
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“When you let go of the belief that you should or need to know who you are, what happens to confusion? Suddenly it is gone. When you fully accept that you don't know, you actually enter a state of peace and clarity that is closer to who you truly are than thought could ever be. Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.”
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“The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be.”
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“Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.”
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“There is only one perpetrator of evil on the planet: human unconsciousness. That realization is true forgiveness. With forgiveness, your victim identity dissolves, and your true power emerges--the power of Presence. Instead of blaming the darkness, you bring in the light.”
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“The ego says, ‘I shouldn’t have to suffer,’ and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which is always paradoxical. The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it.”
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“How do you let go of attachment to things? Don’t even try. It’s impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.”
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“Quality requires your Presence.”
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“The atoms that make up your body were once forged inside stars, and the causes of even the smallest event are virtually infinite and connected with the whole in incomprehensible ways.”
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“The joy of Being, which is the only true happiness, cannot come to you through any form, possession, achievement, person, or event - through anything that happens. That joy cannot come to you - ever. It emanates from the formless dimension within you, from consciousness itself and thus is one with who you are.”
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“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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“Sustained enthusiasm brings into existence a wave of creative energy, and all you have to do is 'ride the wave'.”
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“Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.”
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“The Truth is inseparable from who you are. Yes, you are the Truth. If you look for it elsewhere, you will be deceived every time.”
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“The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first.”
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“When you are in touch with that dimension within yourself-and being in touch with it is your natural state, all your actions and relationships will reflect the oneness with all life that you sense deep within. This is love. Laws, commandments, rules and regulations are necessary for those who are cut off from who they are, the Truth within.”
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“If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.”
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“The ego is not only the unobserved mind, the voice in the head which pretends to be you, but also the unobserved emotions that are the body's reaction to what the voice in the head is saying.”
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