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The unknown, our own true nature, has the capacity to wake itself up when you start to fall in love with letting go of all the mental structures you hold onto. Contemplate this: there is no such thing as a true belief.
Emptiness Dancing Emptiness Dancing (2006)
To have enough curiosity to start to question your deepest identity is absolutely vital and essential to spiritual awakening, and to the realization of peace and freedom.
The Basic Teachings - Part 1: Principles of the Teaching (2009)
Every human being... the way they move in live, how they act, is completely dictated by what they value.
The Basic Teachings - Part 1: Principles of the Teaching (2009)
Awakened values are not really based in morality. They're not based in should or shouldn'ts. Awakened values are values that are inherent within conscious spirit.
The Basic Teachings - Part 1: Principles of the Teaching (2009)
The mind is something that happens within you. Thinking is something that happens within what you are. Thinking does not define what you are. Thinking doesn't define anything.
The Basic Teachings - Part 1: Principles of the Teaching (2009)
Egoic consciousness is something that the vast majority of people live in almost all the time. Humanity is by and large caught in this realm of egoic consciousness, and therefore manifests it in the way that we, human beings, live our lives - both individually and collectively.
The Basic Teachings - Part 1: Principles of the Teaching (2009)
True love is not all bliss. As my teacher said, true love is bittersweet, like dark chocolate. It almost hurts a little bit. Ultimately all emotions contain their opposite.
Interview for The Sun Magazine (2007)
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