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Wu Hsin says: "Nothing true needs your belief."

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The word "guru" in Sanskrit means the one who points; like a signpost, he just points.

He doesn't tell you what to do.

He doesn't even take you by the hand and lead you: he just points the way, leaving you to do with it what you will. But that word has become corrupted by those who use it for themselves, because such gurus offer methods.

J KRISHNAMURTI

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"Listen to the silences." - Samuel Beckett

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"Spiritual practice really doesn't even properly begin until we can actually sit down right in the middle of wherever we are, whatever we're experiencing, and allow it."

~ Adyashanti

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Meditation can happen in the absence of the meditator, of the one who's trying to do it correctly.

There is this natural meditation that's just happening all on its own.

~ Adyashanti

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Ramana Maharshi says:

The truth you seek is not in the scriptures, not in the sky, not even in th silence of the mountains. It is in the one who is asking the question. Turn inward — that is the only pilgrimage.

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Naturally occurring timeless awareness-utterly lucid awakened mind—

is something marvelous and superb, primordially and spontaneously present.

It is the treasury from which comes the universe of appearances and possibilities, whether of samsara or nirvana.

Homage to the unwavering state, free of elaborations.

~ Longchen Rabjam

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I hope that in your process of healing, you attract someone as conscious, deep, passionate, sensitive and spiritual as much as you are. Someone who makes you believe in yourself and your self-love. Someone who wants to evolve with you, not only in this dimension, but at all levels.

~ Carl Gustav Jung

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We may see this world as countries, cities, towns, and people that are divided by lines on a map. But the truth is that this is one world that arose within space, and that will dissolve back into space. And that every being's body that has ever habited this world is actually made up of it, and will dissolve back into it. Nothing exists independently.

It is impossible to live in this world without affecting the environment and others around you.

Whatever arises from your body, speech and mind will affect things. And you alone are in charge of what kind of effect that you would like it to be. Do not underestimate the far-reaching effects of your actions. This brings you enormous responsibility.

Therefore, be very careful and compassionate with your body, speech and mind. As a stone dropped into water will cause a ripple to move outwards in all directions, continuing on long after that stone left the hand. Likewise, a single action can cause a ripple effect within the interconnectedness throughout this world and beyond, continuing on long after that action was carried out or forgotten.

So l urge you, for your own, and others' benefit, please look after this fragile world for the very short time that you are on it, and leave it for the next generation in a way that you would like to find it. And become a responsible samsaric traveller, wherever you are, while you are in samsara. Continue to do this, and your positive karma will support you in your Buddhist path to freedom.

~ Chamtrul Rinpoche

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Let your mind and heart release all that disturbs you.

Let your body be still, and all the frettings of your body, and all that surrounds it.

Let the earth and sea and air be still, and heaven itself; and then think of spirit as streaming, pouring, rushing, and shining into you, through you, and out from you in all directions while you sit quiet.

—Plotinus, 204/5 - 270 CE

love is a place

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This is the thing: the empty mind can access everything, but the ego fixation can access very little. The only one limiting us is our own fixation on being like *this*—‘I know what I'm like’—release from that, rest in the potential, and you find your mind is full of all kinds of weird shit.

James Low, Availability for Life (Clarity & Equanimity Dzogchen teachings)

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You are infinite consciousness so, why can’t you perceive the infinite? Why does what you perceive seem finite and limited?

Rupert explains that all you are seeing is the infinite. And you are the infinite that is seeing it — you, the one, are seeing yourself refracted through the lens of thought and perception. But, it’s not possible to perceive infinity because the mind imposes its own limitations on everything that it knows or perceives.

Through the human mind, infinite consciousness can only know itself how it appears. Infinite reality exists independent of its being perceived - but the appearance of the world depends upon the perceiving faculties.

And this beautiful interaction between the infinite reality and the finite mind that perceives it creates this amazing world.