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Subsun or sun candle

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Everything comes to you at the right time. Be patient

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Once you have understood the union of emptiness and the dependent arising of phenomena, you will see clearly how deluded and deceiving the ways of the world really are, and, like an old man forced to play children's games, you will find them very tiresome. When you have realized the utter foolishness of spending your life attached to friends and scheming to subdue your enemies and competitors, you will find it tedious. Once you have been struck by the pointlessness of letting yourself be forever influenced and conditioned by your habitual tendencies, you will become sick of it. ... That will inspire you to strive towards liberation - and by striving for it, you will attain it.

- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, The Heart of Compassion: The Thirty-seven Verses on the Practice of a Bodhisattva

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Quotes About Nonduality:

“You are not the body. You are not the mind. You are the consciousness in which they appear.”

- Ashtavakra Gita

“All that is ever known is experience, and all experience takes place in consciousness. What else could we be?”

- Rupert Spira

“There is no path to truth because truth is ever-present and you are that truth.”

- Jean Klein

“There is no person who awakens. Only awakening, and the illusion of the person seen through.”

- John Wheeler

“The truth is here before the thought of ‘me’ arises.”

- Jac O' Keefe

“To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be awakened by all things.”

- Dogen

“You’re not in the dream. The dream is appearing in you.”

- Paul Hedderman

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“There is no fixed self. What we call ‘self’ is only a process. Recognizing this is the beginning of liberation.”

— Ajahn Chah

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“You are the solitary witness of all that is, forever free. Your only bondage is not seeing this.”

- Ashtavakra Gita

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"When the separate self collapses, what remains is peace—not something gained, but what was always present behind the illusion."

- Rupert Spira

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“When you're trained as a Buddhist, you don’t think of Buddhism as a religion. You think of it as a type of science, a method of exploring your own experience through techniques that enable you to examine your actions and reactions in a nonjudgmental way, with the view toward recognizing, “Oh, this is how my mind works. This is what I need to do to experience happiness. This is what I should avoid to avoid unhappiness.” At its heart, Buddhism is very practical. It’s about doing things that foster serenity, happiness, and confidence, and avoiding things that provoke anxiety, hopelessness, and fear.”

—Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche The Joy of Living

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There are seeds of happiness in our suffering, and seeds of suffering in our happiness.

— Happiness is Overrated by Cuong Lu

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