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How did you know you're alive, unless you'd once been dead?


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Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be

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No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.

No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.



You are the universe experiencing itself.

You are the universe experiencing itself.



We see what we believe rather than what we see.

We see what we believe rather than what we see.



Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

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A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.



Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.

Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.



Insecurity is the result of trying to be secure.

Insecurity is the result of trying to be secure.





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