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As you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind's compulsive control, contractions, and identifications. Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.

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