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• Embrace suffering, and you transform your relationship with what causes you to suffer, as well as your relationship with suffering itself.

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  Suffering, Causes, Our Relationship

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• It is easy to imagine that the Buddha, the awakened one, is something or somewhere other than here or that awakening to reality will happen sometime other than now. But as long as we continue to think in terms of time we will deceive ourselves. The you who is chasing enlightenment will never become enlightened.
  
  Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn't exist?

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  Time, Reality, Thinking

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• As you peel it back, in the heart of nothing, that is love. You are what you are seeking. Life is a set up so that each of us can actually see in ourselves the truth for ourselves. What gets taken away are all the exterior means we thought we wanted love to come to us. You have the choice to notice the perfect set up to see love is exactly what you are.

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  Taken, Love You, Heart

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• Only something as insane as human beings would ever asked themselves if 'I'm good.' You don't find oak trees having existential crisis. 'I feel so rotten about myself. I don't produce as much acorns as the one next to me.'

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  Tree, Insane, Rotten

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• Most human beings spend their lives battling with opposing inner forces: what they think they should do versus what they are doing; how they feel about themselves versus how they are; whether they think they’re right and worthy or wrong and unworthy. The separate self is just the conglomeration of these opposing forces. When the self drops away, inner division drops away with it.

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  Thinking, Self, Division

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• There is nothing wrong with thought and it can be used whenever necessary. But in every moment you can choose to follow your thoughts or you can recognize that which is not thinking. Don’t try to stop thinking, let it happen. Just recognize that which is not thinking.

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  Thinking, Trying, Moments

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• When you rest deeply in the Unknown without trying to escape, your experience becomes very vast. As the experience of the Unknown deepens, your boundaries begin to dissolve. You realize, not just intellectually but on a deep level, that you have no idea who or what you are. A few minutes ago, you knew who you were-you had a history and a personality-but from this place of not knowing, you question all of that.

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  Ideas, Knowing, Personality

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• Reality is always true to itself. When you're in harmony with it, you experience bliss. As soon as you are not in harmony with it, you experience pain. This is the law of the universe; it is the way things are. Nobody gets out of this law.

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  Pain, Stress, Reality

  Adyashanti (2010). “The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment”, p.33, Sounds True

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• No one can give you the strength of character necessary... Only you can find that passion within that burns with an integrity that will not settle for anything less than the Truth.

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  Integrity, Passion, Character

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• Be a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don't expect it to be easy or even noticed.

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  Heart, Easy, Goodness

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• When we're in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose.

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  Purpose, Life Is, Moments

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• All we really want in the end is to be connected once again with the Truth of our being, to realize what it is that wears this mask of self.

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  Self, Want, Realizing

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• The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?

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  Spiritual, Self, Intimate

  Adyashanti (2012). “True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness”, p.32, Sounds True

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• Many people think that it is the function of a spiritual teaching to provide answers to life's biggest questions,
  but actually, the opposite is true.
  
  The primary task of any good spiritual teaching is not to
  answer your questions, but to question your answers.

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  Spiritual, Teaching, Thinking

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• The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.

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  Spiritual, Growth, Requirements

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• When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.

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  Moving, Emptiness, Eternity

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• One doesn't stay in a state of nirvana by hiding from difficulties. You stay in nirvana by lavishing nirvana on everyone you meet, by giving it away as fast as you receive it.

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  Giving, Hiding, States

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• The truth is that you already are what you are seeking. You are looking for God with his eyes. I suggest you ask, "What's ultimately behind this set of eyes?" Turn around to see what is looking.

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  Eye, Truth Is, Turns

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• There is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.

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  Consciousness, Individual, Conscious

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• When you begin to become conscious, more aware, when your eyes begin to open, the first thing you see is how deluded you are and how much you're holding onto that which makes you suffer. This is, in many ways, the most important step: Are you willing to be aware?

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  Eye, Suffering, Important

  Adyashanti (2011). “Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering”, p.14, Sounds True

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• You must choose between your attachments and happiness.

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  Positive Thinking, Thinking, Attachment

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• Our illusions-the beliefs we hold on to-are the very doorways to our freedom. We simply have to enter through them without grasping or pushing away. We must not believe them, but we must not run away from them either. We need to see each moment of apparent bondage as an invitation to freedom. Then it becomes an act of love, an act of compassion, to stop running away.

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  Running, Believe, Compassion

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• A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom.

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  Integrity, Heart, Mind

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• Our own intuition of what we're called to is reality speaking to us individually and perfectly. We have to listen to how the Infinite talks to us and leads us. Reality, Life the Infinite, God, has a way of leading us in just the perfect way, if we will only just listen to it.

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  Reality, Perfect, Intuition

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• All delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we’re talking to ourselves and then believing what we are saying.

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  Believe, Talking, Mind

  Adyashanti (2010). “The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment”, p.68, Sounds True

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