Words to live by

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There are no problems - only opportunities.

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Every time I judge someone else, I reveal an unhealed part of myself.

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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

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Yey! Following this! Can I add some?

"Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself." Rupi Kaur

"The purpose of todays training is to undo what we learned yesterday." Miyamoto Musashi

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@flume Sure, feel free to do so!

What you resist, persists.

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God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And wisdom to know the difference.

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Yes, seeing what you really are, in all the endless ways, can be scary. You do have to wade through loneliness, grief, confusion, and immense loss. You have to see and love the parts of yourself that frighten and disgust you the most. You have to be willing to die into the fires of awakening, with no hope of recovery. You have to let go of getting a fix from that guy, or that show, or that cookie, or that meditation technique. The part of you that can get a fix will be no more, and when you try to get off on whatever it is, it won’t work. It’s scary and you lose a lot, but once you stop hitting snooze and wake up to the next transformation, none of that will matter. You will be operating from a whole new perspective. Born again, so to speak. Until you reach the next plateau and do it all again. The good news is, your relationship with this process will change as you do. It won’t always be such a big drama to awaken. You won’t hit snooze so many times, and eventually not at all.

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Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.

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Life as it is does not require belief, and that’s the beauty of it. It is simply this – here and now.

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Awakening is not what you imagine it to be.

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It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

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If you think that people should be nice to one another, then by all means be nice. But when you project that belief onto the people and the world around you as if it were an objective reality, or worse still, as if it were their job to be nice to you, you put yourself at odds with what is, and suffering will surely follow.

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This is my secret. I don't mind what happens.

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What I call meditation is to be knowingly that one.

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You are simply the empty presence of knowingness in which everything appears and disappears.

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Move from being aware of objects (like individual chairs, tables, walls, trees, whatever) to having a single field of awareness without the need of dividing it up.

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The reason why some people love to engage in dangerous activities, such as mountain climbing, car racing, and so on, although they may not be aware of it, is that it forces them into the Now—that intensely alive state that is free of time, free of problems, free of thinking, free of the burden of the personality.

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If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.

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Thoughts in your head are really no different than the sound of a bird outside. It is just that you decide that they are more or less relevant.