Category: contemplation
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CONFIDENCE
Confidence and ease do not come from control. It is impossible to cover all potentialities and control every external conditions. In addition, having preconceived ideas about situations limits our natural, intuitive responsiveness to uncertainty. Confidence comes from the ability to meet, accept, embrace, and respond to the unexpected in a harmless way. The development of…
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GOODWILL HAS SETTLED IN YOUR HEART
When friction in the mind over what is happening is relinquished, everything becomes simple. Tensions get released, quarrels are not started, hard speech is not uttered, grunges do not arise, and resentment does not shrink the heart. No tight belly, no tunnel vision, no rounded shoulders, no burning stomach. You sleep well and are at…
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FROM IGNORANCE TO KNOWLEDGE TO KNOWLEDGELESSNESS
There is an unlocated realm beyond awareness of objects that can’t be grasped. Centerlessness.
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LOVING WISDOM
Love contains neither judgment nor attachment. It just springs out of the inner pure nature of being. No reason asked. You can just sit there in its presence. Come as you are: smiling or cantankerous. It will accept you the way you are, whether you want it or not. No different. Not categorizing anything into…
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LOVE BECOMES INEVITABLE
Every day, I witness the power of love that can express itself as forgiveness for oneself or others, generosity, kindness, goodwill, or simply as surrendering to what is—the absence of rejection, of pushing away, of resistance. Giving away without expecting anything in return, regardless of the recipient. It can be trained and cultivated until it…
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PERMISSION TO EVAPORATE
Allow yourself to put the burden of your self-generated identity down. Realize that urgencies are a matter of perspective. Time depends on the clinging and on your perception of it. You are not obliged to be someone today. Lay down your status, your skills, your knowledge, your goals, your dreams, and your aspirations. Allow yourself…
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THE ENTRANCE DOOR TO FREEDOM
Have you ever wondered what pushes you to act as you do? What are the forces that propel you to get the next thing done, to acquire the next object, to want to modify, change, improve, develop, to rush into, to dream about, to envisage, and to plan?Are you aware enough to feel the energetic…
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