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“We should find perfect existence through imperfect existence. The basic teaching of Buddhism is the teaching of transiency, change. That everything changes is the basic truth of each existence. When we realize the everlasting truth of “everything changes” and find our composure in it, we find ourselves in Nirvana.”

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Book:Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
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“When I listened within myself I saw that the world is what it is – nothing more, nothing less. Where reality is concerned, there is no “what should be.” There is only what is, just the way it is, right now. The truth is prior to every story. And every story, prior to investigation, prevents us from seeing what’s true.”

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Book:Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life
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“Within what we have been calling inner work exists many practices, pathways, reminders, nudges, prayers, callings, dreams, whispers, revelations, mysteries, and depths of silence. You actually have everything you need to do this within you, everything.”

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Book:The Inner Journey: Discover Your True Self
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“Unlike seeking, which is result-oriented and rooted in a sense of dissatisfaction and incompleteness, this kind of meditative inquiry is rooted in curiosity, interest and love. Much as a lover explores the beloved, this nondual, nonconceptual inquiry is an act of love and devotion. Much as a child explores the world with open curiosity and wonder, this kind of inquiry is a form of play and self-discovery.”

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Book:Nothing to Grasp
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“We have allowed ourselves very little space for not-knowing. Very seldom do we have the wisdom not-to-know, to lay the mind open to deeper understanding. When confusion occurs in the mind, we identify with it and say we are confused…Confusion arises because we fight against our not-knowing, which experiences each moment afresh without preconceptions or expectations.”

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Author:Stephen Levine
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“Meditative self-inquiry is the art of asking a spiritually powerful question. And a question that is spiritually powerful always points us back to ourselves. Because the most important thing that leads to spiritual awakening is to discover who and what we are—to wake up from this dream state, this trance state of identification with ego. And for this awakening to occur, there needs to be some transformative energy that can flash into consciousness. It needs to be an energy that is actually powerful enough to awaken consciousness out of its trance of separateness into the truth of our being. Inquiry is an active engagement with our own experience that can cultivate this flash of spiritual insight.”

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Book:True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness
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“As all living beings desire to be happy always, without misery, as in the case of everyone there is observed supreme love for one's self, and as happiness alone is the cause for love, in order to gain that happiness which is one's nature and which is experienced in the state of deep sleep when there is no mind, one should know one's self. For that, the path of knowledge, the inquiry of the form "Who am I?", is the principal means.”

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Author:Ramana Maharshi
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“Imagine an expedition where no maps or clues are provided to you initially but you are on your own discovering and/or creating them to chart and make sense of the whole journey. That's the life in a sentence.”

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Book:The Essence of Enlightenment: Comprehensive Guide to Self-inquiry and Enlightenment
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“Enlightenment is like waking up from a dream. Good news is if it's a bad dream, it's over. Bad news is that it's over, even if it's a good one. Overall it should be good news considering the state of affairs that one encounters in a condition of darkness.”

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Book:The Essence of Enlightenment: Comprehensive Guide to Self-inquiry and Enlightenment
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“What the universe has in store for you is destiny which happens to be your own account of past deeds. One has the option to modulate the expression of destiny with freewill within the boundaries of broader evolutionary framework. If the evolutionary path is deterministic, there is no need for the universe to take the trouble in projecting such an elaborate manifestation.”

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Book:The Essence of Enlightenment: Comprehensive Guide to Self-inquiry and Enlightenment
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“Though in essence there's nothing new under the Sun when it comes to journey of the five senses, each new generation brings its own quirks to challenge the cultural norms with newfound enthusiasm in an otherwise repetitive age old routines.”

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Book:The Essence of Enlightenment: Comprehensive Guide to Self-inquiry and Enlightenment
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“The ultimate ground of awareness that makes it possible to have the dualistic experiences such as the pleasant and unpleasant along with the whole spectrum of gradations in between is beyond being entangled while providing a framework on which such a play happens.”

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Book:The Essence of Enlightenment: Comprehensive Guide to Self-inquiry and Enlightenment
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“If your child is a teenage empath, you might like to try introducing them to self-inquiry. As sensitive beings, empathic teenagers struggle greatly to differentiate their emotions from those around them. One of the best ways to help your child regulate their emotions is by teaching them to ask, “Is this feeling mine?”

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Book:Awakened Empath: The Ultimate Guide to Emotional, Psychological and Spiritual Healing
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“Existential angst of an unexamined life is akin to the travails of a weary traveler who keeps traveling without a lasting destination or overall purpose of why one is traveling while being caught in a cyclical spell of seeking one more destination that might look like the be all and end all.”

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Book:The Essence of Enlightenment: Comprehensive Guide to Self-inquiry and Enlightenment
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