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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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“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.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.”
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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.”
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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“As you become present and thereby total in what you do, your actions become charged with spiritual power.”
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“If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn't even know you are thinking. You would be like a dreamer who doesn't know he is dreaming. When you know you are dreaming, you are awake within the dream.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose