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• True zazen is surrendering every moment. But surrendering to what? It really does not matter what we call it: God or the Tao or the Dharma or the Buddha or our true nature. . . . It is the act of letting go, of surrendering, that matters. The very act of letting go opens us up completely.

  Dennis Merzel

  Letting Go, Nature, Taoism

  Dennis Genpo Merzel (1991). “The Eye Never Sleeps”, p.49, Shambhala Publications

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• A person's true nature will reveal itself despite disguise.

  Aesop

  Life, Disguise, Persons

  Aesop, Pat Ronson Stewart (1994). “Aesop's Fables”, p.2, Courier Corporation

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• The ancient Masters didn't try to educate the people, but kindly taught them to not-know. When they think that they know the answers, people are difficult to guide. When they know that they don't know, people can find their own way. If you want to learn how to govern, avoid being clever or rich. The simplest pattern is the clearest. Content with an ordinary life, you can show all people the way back to their own true nature.

  Laozi

  Clever, Thinking, People

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• The true nature of a thing is the highest it can become.

  Aristotle

  Life Changing, Highest

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• As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the attributes of delusion, attachment and purity through meditation and attains Reality.

  Adi Shankara

  Inspiration, Reality, Attachment

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• Simply notice that you're aware. At any given moment, you can choose to follow the chain of thoughts, emotions, and sensations that reinforce a perception of yourself as vulnerable and limited, or to remember that your true nature is pure, unconditioned, and incapable of being harmed.

  Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

  Inspiration, Yoga Practice, Meditation Practice

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• The refusal to be creative is an act of self-will and is counter to our true nature. When we are open to our creativity, we are opening to God: good, orderly direction. As we pursue our creative fulfillment, all elements of our life move toward harmony. As we strengthen our creativity, we strengthen our connection to the Creator within. Artists love other artists. Our relationship to God is co-creative, artist to artist. It is God's will for us to live in creative abundance.

  Julia Cameron

  Art, Moving, Creativity

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• The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.

  Pierre Schaeffer

  Exercise, Variation, Mystery

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• There is in all our strivings a profound homesickness for God. When we touch another we touch God. When we look at a flower, its radiance, its fragrance, its stillness is another moment's experience of something deeper within. When we hold a baby, when we hear extraordinary music, when we look into the eyes of a great saint, what draws us is that deep homesickness for our true nature, for the peace and healing that is our birthright. This homesickness for God directs us toward the healing we took birth for.

  Stephen Levine

  God, Baby, Flower

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• Now I can show you my true nature.

  SebastiAn

  Shows, I Can

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• To believe that you depend on things and people for happiness is due to ignorance of your true nature; to know that you need nothing to be happy, except Self-knowledge, is wisdom.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Believe, Ignorance, Self

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• But love's true nature remains forever beyond the grasp of all our faculties. It is far greater than any feeling or emotion and completely surpasses any act of human kindness. It is the one sheer gift of contemplation, completely unattainable by autonomous human effort. The realization of this love always remains mysterious.

  Gerald May

  Love, Kindness, Forever

  "The Dark Night of the Soul: A Psychiatrist Explores the Connection Between Darkness and Spiritual Growth".

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• To change the world is not your mission. To change yourself is not your duty. To awaken to your true nature is your opportunity.

  Mooji

  Opportunity, World, Missions

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• Eventually, you have to stop picking a fight with your true nature and decide to seek the joy that underlies it all.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Fighting, Joy

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• Being Open to the Guidance of your Own True Nature will Free Others to Do the Same

  Wayne Dyer

  Guidance

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• The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being. It is a state of connectedness with something immeasurable and indestructible, something that, almost paradoxically, is essentially you and yet is much greater than you. It is finding your true nature beyond name and form.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Names, Ideas, Oneness

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.12, New World Library

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• Being is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature. But don't seek to grasp it with your mind. Don't try to understand it. You can know it only when the mind is still. When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Self, Mind, Trying

  Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.16, New World Library

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• Our own true nature is Infinite Joy!
  Always happy, Always peaceful, Always free.

  Swami Satchidananda

  Wisdom, Fun, Joy

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• The true nature of mankind comes down to a simple question: 'Do we teach children how to be good or how to be bad?'

  Greg Smith

  Children, Simple, Mankind

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• The willingness to not bypass illusion is very important. We come to nirvana by way of samsara. We come to see the true nature of things by seeing through the illusory nature of things. We don't come to nirvana by avoiding samsara. We don't come to clarity by avoiding confusion.

  Adyashanti

  Confusion, Important, Way

  Adyashanti (2010). “The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment”, p.49, Sounds True

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• Only love can penetrate all your karmas and resistances and set your heart on fire with the awareness of its true nature.

  Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

  Karma, Heart, Fire

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• The noblest relationship is marriage, that is, love. Its nobility resides in its altruism, the desire to serve another beyond all the pleasures of the relationship; and in its refusal ever to regard the other as a thing, an object, a utilizability. Sex is an exchange of pleasures, of needs; love is a giving without return. It is this giving without return, this helping without reward, this surplus of pure good, that identifies the uniqueness of man as well as the true nature of the true marriage. This is the quintessence the great alchemy of sex is for.

  John Fowles

  Love, Sex, Men

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• After every happiness comes misery; they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature; both are chains-one iron, one gold; behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change; but the nature of the Atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it; only wash away the dross and see it.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Peace, Iron, Soul

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3104, Manonmani Publishers

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• The crux of the matter, is that people don't understand the true nature of money. It is meant to circulate, not be wrapped up in a stocking

  Guglielmo Marconi

  People, Matter, Crux

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• The more we learn of the true nature of non-human animals, especially those with complex brains and corresponding complex social behavior, the more ethical concerns are raised regarding their use in the service of man - whether this be in entertainment, as "pets," for food, in research laboratories, or any of the other uses to which we subject them.

  Jane Goodall

  Animal, Men, Pet

  "Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe". Book by Jane Goodall, 2000.

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