"On the new Earth, as the awakened consciousness comes in, I would say the ego would develop in children and quickly become outgrown when they reach adulthood."
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"Don't quote the Buddha. Be the Buddha."
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"The difference between you, if you consider yourself not enlightened, and an enlightened master is not that the enlightened master has more knowledge. University professors have knowledge, and many enlightened masters have very little knowledge. Jesus probably had less knowledge than any university professor alive today in terms of raw information. Even a relatively uneducated person has more information than Jesus or Buddha ever had about things, such as political things and so on."
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"The place that I love most is the stillness. It's not that the stillness is lost when I talk or when I teach because the words arise out of the stillness. But when people leave me, there is only the stillness left. And I love that so much."
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"There's something in everybody that longs for that awakening to be more true to yourself."
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"Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cant prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?"
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"Your car breaks down in the middle of the night. It's raining. It's cold. And you have to change the tire of your car. You cannot really enjoy that it is cold and wet, but you can bring acceptance to it. Peace flows into it."
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"When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought."
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""Getting away from it all," many people want that, and of course ultimately the only way to get away from it all is to go within, now."
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"That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person."
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"Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now."
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"Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give you joy- joy arises from within."
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"You may not yet be able to bring your unconscious mind activity into awareness as thoughts, but it will always be reflected in the body as an emotion, and of this you can become aware."
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"It wasn't through the mind, through thinking, that the miracle that is life on earth or your body were created and are being sustained."
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"Please open your eyes now, but keep attention in the inner energy field of the body as you look around the room. The inner body lies at the threshold between your form identity and your essence identity, your true nature. Never lose touch with it."
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"As you go about your life, don't give 100 percent of your attention to the external world and your mind. Keep some within."
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"Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship."
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"Many people don't realise until they are on their deathbed and everything external falls away that no thing ever had anything to do with who they are."
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"The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one."
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"As you become present and thereby total in what you do, your actions become charged with spiritual power."
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