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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.
Leonard Jacobson
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Me, me, me! Mine, mine, mine! I'm right, I'm right, I'm right. What's in it for me? How do I use this? How do I take advantage of it? This is the way of the ego. Own this within yourself and you will begin to release yourself from it.
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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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You can be sad for others but you don't have to take on their pain.
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