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I sometimes ask people, 'Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you're having, not the emotions that you're having, but the very presence of your very being?' You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.

Alive Aware Become Being
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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.

Anybody Because Deep Down
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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.

Always Dysfunction End Evils
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When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what's around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.

Arises Around Attention Become
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The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.

Being Beyond Consciousness Essence
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Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can't stand the suffering anymore.

Awaken Because Coming Contact
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That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.

Awakening Deeper Emerges Person
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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.

Dimension Heaven Instead Jesus
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You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future.

Cope Future Mind Moment
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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.

Case Confident Constantly Defense
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Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

Affects Always Annihilation Around
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Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Disguised Others Over Power
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Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

Bits Conceptual Cuts Fragments
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Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

Anger Boredom Come Conditions
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Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

Another Prejudice Reduce Anymore
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To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

Being Enlightenment Freedom Joy
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Love is a state of Being. 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.

Being Body Deep Dependent
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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.

Head Liberation Realize Sees
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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Hope Important Today Learn
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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Anything Made Mistake Never
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The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Anything Because Dangerous Evil
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Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Logic Get Imagination Take
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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Created Problems Same Solve
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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Imagination Intelligence Knowledge Sign
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If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Enough Explain Simply Understand
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Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Rather Strive Success Value
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It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Art Awaken Creative Expression
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Former Human Infinite Stupidity
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It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Longer Problems Smart Stay
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Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Accept Beyond Limits Once
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Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Beauty Circle Compassion Creatures
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Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Imagination Important Knowledge More
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Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Geniuses Intellectuals Prevent Problems
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Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Achieved Force Kept Peace
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If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Knew Research Doing Would
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Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

Daily Deep Exists Knows
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Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Axe Criminal Hands Like
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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Large Matters Seriously Small
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I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Curious Passionately Special Talent
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Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Attitude Becomes Character Weakness
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Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Education Forgotten Learned Remains
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No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

Amount Ever Prove Experiment
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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Illusion Merely Persistent Reality
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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Equally Foolish God Wise
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When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

Girl Relativity Second Courting
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The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

Hardest Income Tax Thing
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We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Care Course God Intellect
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The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

Discovery Effect Flight Process
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If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Describe Tailor Truth Elegance
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As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Certain Far Laws Mathematics
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