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" The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say 'recognize' because you're not... it's not new. "

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" Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven't realized it yet. "

" Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form. "

" If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction. "

" Jesus said, 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.' I think if he lived nowadays, instead of 'kingdom,' he would have said, 'dimension.' And 'heaven' refers to a sense of vastness or spaciousness. "

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" Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now. "

" What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that. "

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" You are not a problem that needs solving. "

" Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences. "

" Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success. "

" To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually. "

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" People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future. "

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" Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them. "

" Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces. "

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" To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history. "

" If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it. "

" When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity - what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well. "

" If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small. "

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" Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident. "