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Instead of searching for what you do not have, find out what it is that you have never lost.

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Having realized that you cannot influence the results, pay no attention to your desires and fears. Let them come and go. Don't give them the nourishment of interest and attention.
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In peace and silence, the skin of the 'I' dissolves and the inner and the outer become one.
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All you can teach is understanding. The rest comes on its own.
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The world is like a sheet of paper on which something is typed. The reading and the meaning will vary with the reader, but the paper is the common factor, always present, rarely perceived. When the ribbon is removed, typing leaves no trace on the paper. So is my mind - the impressions keep on coming, but no trace is left.
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When I look beyond the mind, I see the witness. Beyond the witness, there is infinite intensity of emptiness and silence.
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You are too much concerned with past and future. It is all due to your longing to continue, to protect yourself against extinction. And as you want to continue, you want others to keep you company, hence your concern with their survival. But what you call survival is but the survival of a dream.
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You are so used to the support of concepts that when your concepts leave you, although it is your true state, you get frightened and try to cling to them again.
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The real does not die, the unreal never lived. Set your mind right and all will be right. When you know that the world is one, that humanity is one, you will act accordingly. But first of all you must attend to the way you feel, think and live. Unless there is order in yourself, there can be no order in the world.
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Abandon the false and you are free of pain truth makes happy, truth liberates.
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You have never been, nor shall ever be, a person. Refuse to consider yourself as one. But as long as you do not even doubt yourself to be Mr. So-and-so, there is little hope. When you refuse to open your eyes, what can you be shown?
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There is nothing wrong with duality as long as it does not create conflict. Multiplicity and variety without strife is joy. In pure consciousness there is light. For warmth, contact is needed. Above the unity of being is the union of love. Love is the purpose of duality.
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As you watch your mind, you discover your self as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover your self as the light behind the watcher.
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When you sit quiet and watch yourself, many things may come to the surface. Do nothing about them, don't react to them. As they have come, so will they go, by themselves. All that matters is mindfulness, total awareness of oneself, or rather, of one's mind.
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Devotion to your goal makes you live a clean and orderly life , given to search for truthand to helping people, and realization makes noble virtue easy and spontaneous, by removing for good the obstacles in the shape of desires and fears and wrong ideas .
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Whatever you come across- go beyond
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The legitimate function of the mind is to tell you what is not. But if you want positive knowledge, you must go beyond the mind.
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If you are angry or in pain, separate yourself from anger and pain and watch them. Externalization is the first step to liberation.
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The only thing required of you is to allow all your raging desires to relax into preferences. Then everything will be done through you and for you, not by you.
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Give up the idea of being a person, that is all. You need not become what you are anyhow. There is the identity of what you are and there is the person superimposed on it. All you know is the person, the identity - which is not a person - you do not know, for you never doubted, never asked yourself the crucial question: 'Who am I?'
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In marriage you are neither the husband nor the wife you are the love between two.
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