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> [The emergence and blossoming of understanding, love, and intelligence has nothing to do with any tradition, no matter how ancient or impressive-it has nothing to do with time. It happens on its own when a human being questions, wonders, inquires,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-packer/the-emergence-and-blossoming-of-understanding-love-and-intelligence/)

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## More by Toni Packer

> [Awareness cannot be taught, and when it is present it has no context. All contexts are created by thought and are therefore corruptible by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-packer/awareness-cannot-be-taught-and-when-it-is-present-it-has-no-context/)

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> [“In the expectation of wonderful things to happen in the future, one doesn’t hear the sound of the wind and rain, the breath and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-packer/in-the-expectation-of-wonderful-things-to-happen-in-the-future-one/)

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> [We are human beings, not 'students' and 'teacher,' coming together and questioning, looking together, not having made up our minds about what we're looking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-packer/we-are-human-beings-not-students-and-teacher-coming-together-and/)

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> [What are we when there is no one doing anything, no one attaining anything, no place to go? There is no place to go.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-packer/what-are-we-when-there-is-no-one-doing-anything-no-one-attaining/)

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> [The solution of the problem lies in seeing it—in the seeing, without wanting a solution, or dissolution—just seeing what’s there. . . .](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-packer/the-solution-of-the-problem-lies-in-seeing-it-in-the-seeing-without/)

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> [“What is personal death? Asking this question and pausing to look inward - isn't personal death a concept? Isn't there a thought-and-picture series going…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-packer/what-is-personal-death-asking-this-question-and-pausing-to-look/)

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> [The emergence and blossoming of understanding, love, and intelligence has nothing to do with any tradition, no matter how ancient or impressive-it has nothing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-packer/the-emergence-and-blossoming-of-understanding-love-and-intelligence/)

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> [Sitting quietly, doing nothing, not knowing what is next and not concerned with what was or what may be next, a new mind is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-packer/sitting-quietly-doing-nothing-not-knowing-what-is-next-and-not/)

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> [In truth we are not separate from each other or from the world, from the whole earth, the sun or moon or billions of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-packer/in-truth-we-are-not-separate-from-each-other-or-from-the-world-from/)

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> [Life is a vast, unknowable movement of wholeness with no one separate from it and nothing outside of it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-packer/life-is-a-vast-unknowable-movement-of-wholeness-with-no-one-separate/)

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