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“If you are not taking responsibility for your state of consciousness, you are not taking responsibility for life.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“The fires of suffering become the light of consciousness.”
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“We are a species that has lost its way. Everything natural, every flower or tree, and every animal have important lessons to teach us if we would only stop, look, and listen.”
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“Whatever you think people are withholding from you-praise, appreciation, assistance, loving care, and so on-give it to them.”
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“Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.”
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“If you are not in the state of either acceptance, enjoyment, or enthusiasm, look closely and you will find that you are creating suffering for yourself and others.”
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“The ego isn't wrong; it's just unconscious. When you observe the ego in yourself, you are beginning to go beyond it. Don't take the ego too seriously. When you detect egoic behavior in yourself, smile. At times you may even laugh. How could humanity have been taken in by this for so long? Above all, know that the ego isn't personal. It isn't who you are. If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that's just more ego.”
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“The ego says, I shouldn't have to suffer, and that thought makes you suffer so much more.”
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“To end the misery that has afflicted the human condition for thousands of years, you have to start with yourself and take responsibility for you inner state at any given moment. That means now”
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“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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“What is the relationship between awareness and thinking? Awareness is the space in which thoughts exist when that space has become conscious of itself.”
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“Very unconscious people experience their own ego through its reflection in others. When you realize that what you react to in others is also in you (and sometimes only in you), you begin to become aware of your own ego.”
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“The modalities of awakened doing are acceptance, enjoyment, and enthusiasm. Each one represents a certain vibrational frequency of consciousness. You need to be vigilant to make sure that one of them operates whenever you are engaged in doing anything at all – from the most simple task to the most complex.”
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“Can you feel that there is something in you that is at war, something that feels threatened and wants to survive at all cost, that needs the drama in order to assert its identity as the victorious character within that theatrical production? Can you feel there is something in you that would rather be right than at peace?”
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“We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine, timeless present moment rather than be caught up in mental movie making.”
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“Awareness is conscious connection with universal intelligence. Another word for it is Presence: consciousness without thought.”
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“"I am the awareness that is aware that there is attachment." That's the beginning of the transformation of consciousness.”
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“The ego doesn't know that the source of all energy is within you, so it seeks it outside.”
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“Their function is to anchor the frequency of the new consciousness on this planet. I call them the frequency-holders. They are here to generate consciousness through the activities of daily life, through their interactions with others as well as through "just being."”
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“The present moment is all you ever have.”
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“Be aware of your breathing as often as you are able, whenever you remember. Do that for one year, and it will be powerfully transformative. And it's free.”
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“Non-reaction to the ego in others is one of the most effective ways not only of going beyond ego in yourself but also of dissolving the collective human ego.”
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“What is commonly called 'falling in love' is in most cases an intensification of egoic wanting and needing. You become addicted to another person, or rather to your image of that person. It has nothing to do with true love, which contains no wanting whatsoever.”
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“Through allowing, you become what you are; vast, spacious. You become whole. You are not a fragment anymore, which is how the ego perceives itself. Your true nature emerges, which is one with the nature of God.”
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“The peace that comes with surrendered action turns to a sense of aliveness when you actually enjoy what you are doing.”
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“When you make the present moment, instead of past and future, the focal point of your life, your ability to enjoy what you do and with it the quality of your life increases dramatically.”
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“If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace.”
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“The particular egoic patterns that you react to most strongly in others and misperceive as their identity tend to be the same patterns that are also in you, but that you are unable or unwilling to detect within yourself.”
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“There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness. One With Life.”
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“Be aware that what you think, to a large extent, creates the emotions that you feel. See the link between your thinking and your emotions. Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.”
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“When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you are doing, you become stressed.”
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“What the future holds for you depends on your state of consciousness now.”
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“Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.”
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“Your inner purpose is to awaken. It is as simple as that. You share that purpose with every other person on the planet - because it is the purpose of humanity.”
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“You cannot fight against the ego and win, just as you cannot fight against darkness. The light of consciousness is all that is necessary. You are that light.”
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“In either case, ugly or beautiful, people derive a significant part of their identity, be it negative or positive, from their body. To be more precise, they derive their identity from the I-thought that they erroneously attach to the mental image or concept of their body.
Equating the physical sense-perceived body that is destined to grow old, wither and die with 'I' always leads to suffering sooner or later.”
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“Anybody who is one with what he or she does is building the new earth.”
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“When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.”
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“You are never more essentially, more deeply, yourself than when you are still.”
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“Forgiveness happens naturally when you see that it has no purpose other than to strengthen a false sense of self, to keep the ego in place.”
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“When you are present, when your attention is fully in the Now, Presence will flow into and transform what you do. There will be a quality and power in it. You are present when what you are doing is not primarily a means to an end (money, prestige, winning) but fulfilling in itself, when there is joy and aliveness in what you do.”
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“To be aware of little, quiet things, you need to be quiet inside. A high degree of alertness is required. Be still. Look. Listen. Be present.”
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“Neither concepts nor mathematical formulae can explain the infinite.”
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“If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity.”
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“The first recognition of beauty was one of the most significant events in the evolution of human conciousness... seeing beauty in a flower could awaken humans, however briefly, to the beauty that is an essential part of their own innermost being, their true nature.”
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“If you don't mind being unhappy, what happens to the unhappiness?”
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“Most people are so distracted by their thoughts, so identified with the voices in their heads, they no longer feel the aliveness within them. To be unable to feel the life that animates the physical body, the very life that you are, is the greatest deprivation that can happen to you.”
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“Sense your presence, the naked, unveiled, unclothed beingness. It is untouched by young or old, rich or poor, good or bad, or any other attributes.”
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“At the height of creative activity fueled by enthusiasm, there will be enormous intensity and energy behind what you do. You will feel like an arrow that is moving toward the target-and enjoying the journey.”
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“Above all, know that ego isn't personal. It isn't who you are. If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that's just more ego.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose