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The question of being is everything. Nothing could be more important or consequential-n othing where the stakes run so high. To remain unconscious of being is to remain asleep to our own reality and therefore asleep to reality at large. The choice is simple: awaken to being or sleep an endless sleep.

Adyashanti

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Adyashanti
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 1
Spirituality
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Steven Gray
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