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- Inherent in the impulse to be free, is insecurity. The impulse to be free comes from outside of the mind, and because of this, it…
- Now don't think that awakening is the end. Awakening is the end of seeking, the end of the seeker, but it is the beginning of…
- The aim of my teaching is enlightenment, awakening from the dream state of separateness into the reality of the One. In short, my teaching is…
- True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.
- Completion comes when we not just wake up from all form, from all identification, but when love causes us to re-embrace it all.
- My experience of fundamental Truth is that it’s a place of extraordinary intelligence. It’s a place from which great intelligence arises. I call it a…
- The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.
- Our yearning for truth actually comes from truth.
- Actually, all paths lead away from the truth...how's that? All paths. There's no such thing as a path to the truth. The truth's already here,…
- The joke of it all is that you are looking from your true nature right now without knowing it. If you would stop being fascinated…
- 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.…
- When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable. It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we are not relating…
- 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…
- 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…
- True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.
- Ego is the movement of the mind toward objects of perception in the form of grasping, and away from objects in the form of aversion.…
- To awaken to the absolute view is profound and transformative, but to awaken from all fixed points of view is the birth of true non-duality.…
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