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01c. 1948 AD

Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.

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02c. 1948 AD

Ego is the complete identification with form. Physical forms, thought forms, emotional forms.

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03c. 1948 AD

The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.

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04c. 1948 AD

When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you're doing, you become stressed.

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05c. 1948 AD

What you usually refer to when you say “I” is not who you are. By a monstrous act of reductionism, the infinite depth of who you are is confused with a sound produced by the vocal cords or the thought of “I” in your mind and whatever the “I” has identified with.

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06c. 1948 AD

Those who do not attempt to appear more than they are but are simply themselves, stand out as remarkable and are the only ones who truly make a difference in this world.

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07c. 1948 AD

Fulfill me, make me happy, make me feel safe, tell me who I am. The world cannot give you those things, and when you no longer have such expectations, all self created suffering comes to an end.

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08c. 1948 AD

Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now.

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09c. 1948 AD

To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.

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10c. 1948 AD

If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.

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11c. 1948 AD

When you are aware that you are thinking, that awareness is not part of thinking. It is a different dimension of consciousness. It is that awareness that says "I AM

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12c. 1948 AD

A new heaven is the emergence of a transformed state of human consciousness. And A New Earth is it's direct reflection in the physical realm.

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13c. 1948 AD

When you are fully conscious, drama does not come into your life anymore.

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14c. 1948 AD

How "spiritual" you are has nothing to do with what you believe, but everything to do with your state of consciousness.

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15c. 1948 AD

In normal everyday usage, "I" embodies the primordial error, a misperception of who you are, an illusory sense of identity. This is the ego. The illusory sense of self is what Albert Einstein, who had deep insights not only into the reality of space an time, but also into human nature, referred to as "an optical illusion of consciousness.

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16c. 1948 AD

why Human should not look at the past?

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17c. 1948 AD

The fundamental difference between an instinctive response and an emotion is this: An instinctive response is the body’s direct response to some external situation. An emotion, on the other hand, is the body’s response to thought. Indirectly, an emotion can also be a response to an actual situation or event, but it will be a response to the event seen through the filter of a mental interpretation, the future of thought, that is to say, through the mental concepts of good and bad, like and dislike, me and mine.

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18c. 1948 AD

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.

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19c. 1948 AD

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

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20c. 1948 AD

The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.

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21c. 1948 AD

Being must be 'felt' it can not be 'thought.

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22c. 1948 AD

Thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence.

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23c. 1948 AD

Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of inner space and inner silence, which is stillness: the infinitely creative womb of all existence.

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24c. 1948 AD

I don't want it to end, and so, as every therapist knows, the ego does not want an end to its “problems” because they are part of its identity. If no one will listen to my sad story, I can tell it to myself in my head, over and over, and feel sorry for myself, and so have an identity as someone who is being treated unfairly by life or other people, fate or God. It gives definition to my self-image, makes me into someone, and that is all that matters to the ego.

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