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People think, Enlightenment is over here and I’m going to grab it. But it’s formless; it’s a cloud, a miasma. When the willingness is total and complete, then it happens on its own, in a ten thousandth of a second. It doesn’t require effort, it doesn’t require agony, it doesn’t require penance. Consciousness of its own seeks the realization of all that it is.
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All judgment reveals itself to be self-judgment in the end, and when this is understood a larger comprehension of the nature of life takes its place.
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With humility comes the willingness to stop trying to control or change other people or life situations or events ostensibly 'for their own good'. To be a committed spiritual seeker, it is necessary to relinquish the desire to be 'right' or of imaginary value to society. In fact, nobody's ego or belief systems are of any value to society at all. The world is neither good nor bad nor defective, nor is it in need of help or modification because its appearance is only a projection of one's own mind. No such world exists.
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We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become.
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With spiritual work, the terms 'is' or 'are' become progressively replaced by the term 'seems to', which is due to the increasing realization of the degree to which perception is the mask that hinders truth.
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Dear God, On this day I ask to be a servant of the Lord, a vehicle of divine love and a channel of God's will. I ask for direction and divine assistance and I surrender all personal will through my devotion. I dedicate my life to the service of God. I choose love and peace above all other options. I commit to the goal of unconditional love and compassion for all of life in all its expression and I surrender all judgment to God. Amen
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I surrender all to you oh Lord, I surrender my existence, and I pray to be your servant, that
I may fulfill divine potential for your glory.
Oh Lord I pray that you bring forth to my awareness that which is not aligned to truth.
Holy Spirit, give me a miracle in understanding what blocks me from God's love and peace.
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Ask "How am I aware or even know that I exist?" That question is the best that can be acted upon for it leads directly and nonverbally to the ever present Reality. Identify with that quality, capacity, or condition of ever present subjectivity which is experienced as an underlying awareness. It is consciousness itself. Identify with that consciousness instead of with the 'what' it is consicous about. That is the direct route to the Self. it is actually the only practice that leads directly through the doorway. There is nothing to know, to learn, or to remember. It is merely necessary to focus, fixate, meditate, contemplate, look at, and realize that the substrate and source of existence is the radical subjectivity of the Presence of God as the Light of Consciousness.
From the book: I: Reality and Subjectivity
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Everything you see happening is the consequence of that which you are.
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Why give the ego more power by resisting and opposing it?
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Prayer: Holding in mind what you desire, but without adding desire to it.
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Truth and enlightenment are not acquired or achieved. It is a state or condition that presents itself when the conditions are appropriate.
From the book: The Eye of The I
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The development of the spiritual ego can be avoided by the realization that spiritual progress is the result of God's grace and not the result of one's personal endeavors.
From the book: The Eye of The I
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The way out of conflict is not to try to eliminate the negative but instead to choose and adopt the positive.
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When the criticalness and discrimination of dualistic perception are set aside, the absolute perfection and beauty of everything stands revealed.
From the book: The Eye of The I
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