"The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself."
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"The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That's all there ever is."
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"Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas. It is true that every dogma crumbles sooner or later, because reality will eventually disclose its falseness; however, unless the basic delusion of it is seen for what it is, it will be replaced by others."
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"Everything is honoured, but nothing matters."
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"You cannot give your full attention to something, and at the same time resist it."
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"Instead of making up stories, stay with the facts. For example, "I am ruined" is a story. It limits you and prevents you from taking effective action. "I have 50 cents left in my bank account" is a fact."
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"Wake up. Get out of your mind. Be present."
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"The primary purpose of life is in being in the NOW."
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"When you accept everything for what it is without labels you are outside of your ego."
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"... inherited collective mind-patterns ... have kept humans in bondage to suffering for eons."
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"To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present."
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"The moment you become aware of the silence, you also have become silent."
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"If the price of peace were a lowering of your consciousness, and the price of stillness a lack of vitality and alertness, then they would not be worth having."
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"No thought can encapsulate the vastness of the totality. Reality is a unified whole, but thought cuts it up into fragments. Every thought implies a perspective, and every perspective, by its very nature, implies limitation, which ultimately means that it is not true, at least not absolutely. Only the whole is true, but the whole cannot be spoken or thought."
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"Buddha is said to have given a "silent sermon" once during which he held up a flower and gazed at it. After a while, one of those present, a monk called Mahakasyapa, began to smile. He is said to have been the only one who had understood the sermon. According to legend, that smile (that is to say, realization) was handed down by twenty-eight successive masters and much later became the origin of Zen."
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"The ego doesn't know that the source of all energy is within you, so it seeks it outside."
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"The fullness of life is only accessible in the present moment."
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"Every individual is in touch with the deeper level of being, the aware consciousness. If these humans form groups, they do not derive their sense of self from the group, which does not mean there cannot be a sense of being part of this group. But the group itself does not become an egoic entity."
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"When you live as a friend of the now, many changes come into your life."
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"The energy that flows into what you do, although it may be high energy, is very peaceful energy. It is not out of alignment with life."
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