We are at our best when we are empty — free from greed, lust, opinions, prejudice, desire, ambition, and ultimately even hopes and dreams.
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Seeing ourselves in others is a key. It speaks to the interconnectedness of us all. Giving our time to others not only demonstrates love; it is an act of selflessness which, whether we realize it or not, contributes to our spiritual growth.
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We want to be distracted at all times, as if to avoid the silence where we just might get a glimpse of the True Self. We're afraid of losing the ego-image; afraid that it would be the end of what we're accustomed to and comfortable with; afraid of losing our “identities”. But it really comes down to an avoidance of who we are; an avoidance which produces and perpetuates misery, suffering, sorrow, hardship, heartache, adversity, grief, and all the “problems” associated with life.
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“My” mind and “your” mind; “my” body and “your” body are of the same realization. There is but one Mind, one Body.
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True, lasting happiness is not something we can attain by some switch we “decide” to turn on. It is available to us all, now; for it is our True Nature. However, it is clouded, hidden, and obscured by ego. No “decision” is going to dispel that particular illusion.
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We react to situations as they arise and it appears as if a choice has been made. Life just happens. It is, for all intents and purposes, a no-choice proposition. There is no “you” (as an individual) to make decisions as to what should be done and then to lament what could have been done. In reality, it is not in “your” hands. Life flows like a river, always in the present moment. The past (as in lamenting a choice) and the future (as in imagining the outcome of a choice) exist only in the mind.
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We are, in reality, a single unified process. But life entails a forgetting of the Eternal Process. In order to put drama into life, we pretend that we are not, in fact, the One.
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Our own well-being is best served when our concern is to serve the well-being of others.
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When we are aware of the here and now and when we eschew the trivial egocentric desires that motivate our everyday way of living, we give way to a new sense of Self.
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Seeing is sight. Hearing is sound. My mind and my experience are one. There is no need to differentiate between them.
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Neither does the world’s most brilliant mind nor the world’s wisest sage possess any knowledge beyond that which is truly in everyone.
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Only peaceful souls can effect a peaceful world.
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If we are having difficulty finding peace, then let's be still for a moment. Maybe it will find us.
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