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When you are truly present, you illuminate everything around you.

Leonard Jacobson

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One of the great dangers on the spiritual path is that the ego becomes spiritualized. The ego loves to think of itself as spiritually evolved. It is just another way that it manages to feel important and in control. It is very difficult to free yourself from an enlightened ego.
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Each new moment presents an opportunity for conscious choice. We can choose to let go of the past. We can choose to be here now. We can choose to accept responsibility for ourselves. . . . We can choose to awaken. Or we can choose to remain asleep and unconscious.
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In the present moment, you are beyond all definition. This means that you are no longer defined by the pain and limitations of the past. You are no longer defined by your judgments, opinions or beliefs nor are you defined by the judgment, opinions or beliefs of others.
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It disguises it’s thoughts as your thoughts, it’s feelings with your feelings, you think it’s you.
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True power arises in knowing what you want, knowing what you don't want, expressing it clearly and lovingly without attachment to the outcome.
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You get lost because you think there is somewhere to go. If you give up believing in a goal or a destination, then you cannot get lost. In the present moment, there is no destination.
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If you really know how to ask the question 'Who am I?' you will inevitably be delivered into that state of silence and pure consciousness that is your true Being. The question 'Who am I?' will ultimately deliver you into the 'I am' of you.
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You can be sad for others but you don't have to take on their pain.
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As you transition from the past and future world of the mind to the awakened world of now, you will begin to experience yourself in an entirely new way. A way that is free of the pain and limitations of the past, and free of anxiety about the future. And you will begin to experience the abundance that is ever present in each moment.
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The underlying motivation that drives all addiction is our insistence on avoiding pain. However, the pain you are avoiding is based in the past, and has nothing to do with the present moment.
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The more awake you are, the less there is of you here. At the very deepest level of Presence, you have disappeared and only God is.
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The price of freedom is to allow freedom. Very few people are willing to pay the price.
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Your gift to God is honesty. God's gift to you is truth.
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What are you going to do? Are you going to keep looking backwards, full of anger, resentment and unfulfilled desire. Or are you going to be here now. Because everything is available for you in the here and now. Love, compassion, silence, bliss and Oneness.
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We are on a journey of becoming that which we already are. That is the impossible paradox of our lives.
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Beyond all experience is the one who is experiencing. Beyond all change is the One who never changes.
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Projecting into the future with hopes, dreams and desires can never fulfill you. Only the present moment can fulfill you.
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THE JOURNEY IS FROM HERE TO HERE. AND THE ONLY TIME YOU CAN ARRIVE IS NOW.
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You can live in a house, but your real home is inside you.
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You cannot be present in an abstract way. Presence is not about disappearing into nothingness. You can only be present with something that is actually here.
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