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The reason you suffer from your depression and your anxieties is that you identify with them... You say, “I’m depressed”... But that is false. You are not depressed. If you want to be accurate, you might say, “I am experiencing a depression right now”. But you can hardly say, “I am depressed”. You are not your depression. That is but a strange kind of tuck of the mind, a strange kind of illusion... You have deluded yourself into thinking — though you are not aware of it — that you are your depression, that you are your anxiety, that you are your joy or the thrills that you have. “I am delighted!” You certainly are not delighted. Delight may be IN you right now, but wait around, it will change... It won’t last: it never lasts; it keeps changing; it’s always changing... Clouds come and go: some of them are black and some white, some of them are large, others small... If we want to follow the analogy, you would be the sky, observing the clouds... You are a passive, detached observer. That’s shocking, particularly to someone in the western culture... You’re not interfering. Don’t interfere. Don’t “fix” anything. Watch! Observe! The trouble with people is that they’re busy fixing things they don’t even understand... We’re always fixing things, aren’t we? It never strikes us that things don’t need to be fixed. They really don’t. This is a great illumination. They need to be understood... If you understood them, they’d change... ~ Anthony de Mello (Jesuit priest and psychotherapist)

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Underneath everything you think and feel innocence is still intact. Time cannot blemish your essence. But if you lose sight of this essence, you will mistake yourself for your experiences, and there is no doubt that experience can do much to obliterate love. In an often hostile and brutal world, maintaining innocence seems impossible. Therefore, you find yourself experiencing only as much love and only so much lovability...

~ Deepak Chopra

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Master Wu Hsin, I come before you because I am not seeing any results from my efforts. What do you advise me to do? A: As sunlight hitting an object creates a shadow, the light of consciousness hitting the form of its instrument creates what in essence is also a shadow, the seeming self. What efforts can such a shadow make? Can you cook food on a painting of a fire?

~ Wu Hsin 'Behind the Mind'

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There is no need of any competition with anybody. You are yourself, and as you are, you are perfectly good. Accept yourself.sho

~ Osho

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All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Do you trust your own wisdom so little, that you feel your only worth lies in repeating the words of others?

All words are repetition…And within a sense all words are lies.Wisdom is not words nor is it tangible.My only trust is that all I can do is my best,not according to others but in accordance with Wisdom/Meditation, and That cannot betransferred to another or even seen.I have nothing to prove or gain,I am just here…

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For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

-Thich Nhat Hanh

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Those who, at times, are most pathetically, tragically and dangerously ignorant and confused fall readily into fears which fuel hatreds and suspicions and their own lust to control or punish others, which they justify by observing or imagining and magnifying, exaggerating, how foul and loathsome others are, or "must" be — often exposing far more of their own propensities to the ways of needless destruction and error and terror than that which can ever truly be found in those they condemn.

~ Anon

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Being sensitive and detached are not contraries, they are not opposites… If you are more sensitive, you will be detached; or, if you are detached, you will become more and more sensitive. Sensitivity is not attachment, sensitivity is awareness… Only an aware person can be sensitive. If you are not aware you will be insensitive. When you are unconscious you are totally insensitive —the more consciousness, the more sensitivity… ~ Osho

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“Be aware that whatever happens, happens to you, by you, through you. That you are the creator, enjoyer and destroyer of all you perceive and you will not be afraid… Unafraid, you will not be unhappy, nor will you seek happiness… In the mirror of your mind all kinds of pictures appear and disappear. Knowing that they are entirely your own creations, watch them silently come and go, be alert, but not perturbed. This attitude of silent observation is the very foundation of Yoga. You see the picture, but you are not the picture.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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“Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally the only real question. You may point out–correctly–that it isn’t a real question. Because we don’t have a choice. If we had the choice then there would be a question. But we don’t, so there isn’t. Who can control how much they love? If you can control it, then it isn’t love. I don’t know what you call it instead, but it isn’t love.”

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Julian Barnes, from The Only Story (Alfred A. Knopf, 2018)

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The taste of no separate self is totally liberating. 'No separate self' does not mean there is a spiritual experience that goes something like, 'I have extended myself infinitely everywhere, and have merged with everything.' That's beautiful, wonderful experience for a separate self to have, but that's not what Oneness is. Oneness is not merging. Merging happens between two and since there is only one, any experience of merging is one illusion merging with another, as beautiful and wonderful as that experience may be. Even when I experience having merged with the absolute, with the infinite, with God, it simply means that my fictitious self has merged with another fiction. Mystical experiences aren't enlightenment.

~ Adyashanti

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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way. Not creating delusions is enlightenment. Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom. No affliction is nirvana. And no appearance of the mind is the other shore.

~ Bodhidharma

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One nature, perfect and pervading, circulates in all natures. One Reality, all-knowing, contains, within itself all realities. The one moon is reflected wherever there is a sheet of water. And all moons in all waters are embraced within the one moon.

~ Yongjia

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Moments of boundless love & realization do occur spontaneously, but it is our daily life practice that clarifies the mind & heart...

~ Ram Dass