"Ultimately, every great endeavor consists of many little steps."
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"Most humans live in the mindset that this moment is only important because it's getting them to the next one."
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"Since ancient times the term awakening has been used as a kind of metaphor that points to the transformation of human consciousness. There are parables in the New Testament that speak of the importance of being awake, of not falling back to sleep."
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"When there's a teacher who embodies presence, then it seems to come for a while through that opening. The teacher is an opening to presence."
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"Vipassana is fine until it becomes a technique that has many stages and that takes time to develop. That can be okay for people for a while, but then you have to leave the technique behind."
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"If a fish is born in your aquarium and you call him John, write out a birth certificate, tell him about his family history, and in two minutes he gets eaten by another fish - that's tragic. But it's only tragic because you projected a separate self where there was none. You got hold of a fraction of dynamic process, a molecular dance, and a separate entity out of it."
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"You have to be still for a moment to even notice that there is silence outside."
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"When you are suffering, when you are unhappy, stay totally with what is Now. Unhappiness or problems cannot survive in the Now."
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"Thinking is no more than a tiny aspect of the totality of consciousness, the totality of who you are."
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"I can sometimes sit for two hours in a room with almost no thought. Just complete stillness. Sometimes when I go for walks, there's also complete stillness; there's no mental labeling of sense perceptions. There's simply a sense of awe or wonder or openness, and that's beautiful."
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"When you recognize this, you also realize that you are now free to give up this futile conflict, this inner state of war."
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"We are destined not to go back to the level of animals that we've come from but to return to being by going beyond thinking."
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"The present moment is all you ever have. There is never a time when your life is not 'this moment.' Is this not a fact?"
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"Forgive yourself for not being at peace."
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"Forgiveness happens naturally when you see that it has no purpose other than to strengthen a false sense of self, to keep the ego in place."
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"Being is not only beyond but also deep within every form as its innermost invisible and indestructible essence. This means that it is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature."
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"Sustained enthusiasm brings into existence a wave of creative energy, and all you have to do is 'ride the wave'."
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"This, too, will pass."
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"Being must be felt. It can't be thought."
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"Without perceiving things through the old filter of past conditioning and conceptualization, one can sense the universe is intensely alive. Even so-called inanimate objects - I often pick up little objects and just look at them and sense that they are alive. Physicists actually confirm that what we perceive as dead matter is not dead at all. Everything is an intensely alive energy field. That aliveness is only an aspect of the aliveness or life that I am."
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