"Once you become accustomed to experiencing what is here beyond your thinking, (call it presence, awareness, consciousness) then all that is left is to keep your focus here. Which is the same thing as saying... More »
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"The nature of awareness is freedom from identification. If you are aware of anger, then you are not identified with anger. If you are aware of a thought, you are not identified with the thought. ... More »
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"There are 3 stages of mind in meditation. The first stage is personal. The thoughts are about you, your world, what you've seen, heard, tasted, felt etc. It's experience is one of duality. There is you and everything... More »
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"I often hear people saying they can't meditate. But what they are really saying is they won't meditate. Whatever reasons they give, the truth is in meditation they have come across an experience they do... More »
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"In this moment, you cannot be the person you want yourself to be or others want you to be. You can only be how you are in this moment. Happiness does not come by emulating... More »
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"The ego exists out of the experience that life is not the way it is supposed to be. It lives in a perpetual state of control in an attempt to make life the way it thinks it should... More »
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"The mind functions by defining. And through definitions boundaries are created, separation is created. There is this body that is me and everything else that is not me. So you experience something the mind defines... More »
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"If you greet someone and ask them how they are, they will refer to the last few hours, weeks or months for an answer. Thoughts of the past are constantly repeating themselves and that becomes who... More »
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"When you feel your chest contracting, when there is stress and despair, that is a good sign that you are trying to control what cannot be controlled. That is a good sign that the best... More »
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"Rather than enter meditation as a person trying to become more conscious, enter meditation with the realization that you are consciousness. Not as an affirmation, but as the truth. What you are exists beyond thoughts,... More »
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