Act of Faith: Pt.2 A Two-Way Relationship w/ God 641

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Carmelite prayer we are currently

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listening to a talk given by a carite

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frier in France his name is Father Mari

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luron and he is talking to us about the

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Act of Faith and so he ask the question

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how do we enter a relationship with God

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who is part of the immaterial world and

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who doesn't have

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senses there is a canyon between God and

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US between the Creator and the

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created we are completely dependent on

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God for life if he withdrew his support

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we would simply vanish poof but no no

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one has vanished which shows the

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universal love of God for his creatures

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he invites us into a two-way

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relationship with him we must first

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however overcome the obvious we can't

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see God with our bodily senses so he

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puts the capacity to interact with him

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into the Soul at

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baptism the soul of man separates him

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from

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animals he gives us the ability to know

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the immaterial world for us to come to

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know know him and then puts the

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theological virtues of faith hope and

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charity into man's Soul at baptism to

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allow him to enter a relationship with

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him God permits us to make an Act of

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Faith the choice to believe without

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seeing to enter into a relationship with

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him but we must exercise

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it so let's analyze the Act of Faith so

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what exactly happens when I say that for

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example I believe in the Trinity well I

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really can't grasp the concept of the

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Trinity it goes way beyond my

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intelligence but let's take another

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example let's take a mathematical

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theorem the teacher says that it's true

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so it must be true I believe the teacher

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I understood the explanation so it must

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be true and faith God is one and three

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at the same time but I can't prove it

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like I can prove a mathematical theorem

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I just trust God and the church I have

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faith but something is

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missing why should I trust when I make

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an Act of Faith the Lord comes and he

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firms up my faith if I open my will to

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God he comes lives in me transforms me

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and enables me to do the impossible with

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confidence I have a strong and peaceful

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certitude in him like the

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martyrs he transforms me

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completely which is his way of

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communicating with

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me so another example uh of an AC of

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faith in revelution Revelations 3:20

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I stand at the door and I knock if

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anyone opens to me I will come in and

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dine with him and he with

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me so I open the

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door I accept to believe the Lord comes

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in the meal is reciprocal it's a

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reciprocal relationship a two-way

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relationship with the Lord the meal

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nourishes me the meal transforms me

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amen thank you for following along I

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hope the this little study of an active

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Evelyn Underhill ~ The Mystic

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ought to advance in your

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prayer if you do you will only find you

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have put on the break instead of the

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acceleration all real progress in

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spiritual things

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comes

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gently

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imperceptibly and is the work of

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God our crude efforts spoil

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it remember that the only growth which

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matters happens without our knowledge

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and that trying to stretch ourselves is

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both dangerous and

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silly think of the infinite

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goodness never of your own

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state

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we mostly spend our

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lives conjugating three

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verbs to

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want to

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have and to

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do forgetting that none of these verbs

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have any ultimate

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significance

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except so far as they are transcended by

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and included in the fundamental

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verb to

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be being not

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doing is the first aim of the

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Mystic and hence should be the first

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interest of the student of

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mysticism God is always coming to you in

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the sacrament of the present moment

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meet and receive him

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there with

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gratitude in that

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sacrament

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many people feel unaware of any

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guidance unable to discern or understand

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the signals of

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God not because the signals are not

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given but because the mind is too

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troubled

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clouded and

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hurried to receive

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them love is

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creative it does not flow along the easy

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paths spending itself in the

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attractive it cuts new

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channels and goes where it is

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needed faith is not a Refuge from

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reality it is a demand that we Face

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Reality

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so long as the object of the mystic's

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contemplation is amenable to

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thought is something which they can

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know they may be quite sure that it is

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not the

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absolute but only a partial image or

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symbol of the absolute

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to find that final

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reality one must enter into The Cloud of

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Unknowing one must pass beyond the plane

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on which the intellect can

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work

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I mean thereby a lack of

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knowing

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in

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mysticism that love of Truth leaves the

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merely intellectual

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sphere and takes on the assured aspect

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of a personal

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passion

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where the philosopher guesses and

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argues the Mystic lives and

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looks and speaks a disconcerting

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language of firsthand

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experience not the neat dialectic of the

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schools while the ab abolute of the

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metaphysicians remains a

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diagram impersonal and

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unattainable the absolute of the mystics

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is

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lovable

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attainable

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alive

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the Visionary is a Mystic when their

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Vision mediates to them an actuality

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beyond the reach of the

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senses the philosopher is the Mystic

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when they pass beyond thought to the

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pure apprehension of

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Truth the active person is a

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Mystic when they know their actions to

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be a part of a greater

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activity

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the tree which moves some to Tears of

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Joy says Blake who possessed in an

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eminent degree this form of sacramental

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perception is in the eyes of

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others only a green thing that stands in

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the

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way

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mysticism is the art of Union with

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reality

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the Mystic is a person who has attained

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that

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Union in greater or less

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degree or who aims at and believes in

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such

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attainment

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that Dreadful consciousness of a narrow

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and limiting IH Hood which dogs our

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search for freedom and full life is done

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away for a moment at least the

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independent spiritual life is

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achieved

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the contemplative is merged in

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it like a bird in the

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air like a fish in the

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sea loses to

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find and

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dies to

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I AM That I AM ::: Nisargadatta ~ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐱 ~ Advaita

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59,092 views Dec 17, 2023 Nisargadatta

59,092 views • Dec 17, 2023 • Nisargadatta

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whatever demands you make I am not going

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to

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fulfill I am not going to meet your

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[Music]

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demands I am not going to give you

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whatever you

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want I'm just going to tell

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you to emphasize what you

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are you want to convert or transform

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yourself into something

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saying I want to become

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this I'm going to do that

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but I'm going to tell you what is the

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root of

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you the innermost

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core what you

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are I am not a sculptor you

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see I don't make images for

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you

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so that you can become that

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image the beginning and the end of this

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understanding is the

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knowledge I

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am the beginning of Concepts started

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with the primary

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concept I

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am

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having wandered through all the concepts

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and rejected

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them you have to get rid of this last or

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the first

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concept see this flame of the cigarette

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lighter it has

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appeared it has

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disappeared

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it's just like

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that has it got any

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concept this

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flame what is without concept is the

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most

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perfect the most

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proper I know what you

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are

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what you were prior to your I

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amness I know

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you I know your

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knowingness understand

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Consciousness and come to the conclusion

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that

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Consciousness is not

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yourself

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give it a fair

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trial

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first be

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yourself be in your beingness

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only start

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with I am the imminent spirit I am

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you have to be in that

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beingness without the body

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sense you feel that you are the body

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now but when you abide in that

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beingness you will know then how you are

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without the

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body

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but don't forget at the same

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time that body and vital breath are very

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necessary once you understand these

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three entities

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correctly

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body vital

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breath and the message I

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am then you are a

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part the

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Noah and whatever is

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known both will eventually

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go nothing will remain stable or

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permanent in the process of medit Med

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a more knowledge will be

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awakened will be realized by

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you and in the same

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process you will understand that

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whatever you have

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understood you are

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not don't

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talk

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simply try to

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understand to see

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within just talking about eating will

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not fill your

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stomach you have to actually

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eat you will not get Eternal peace with

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knowledge derived out of

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words only by self

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knowledge or

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self-realization all these appearances

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are happening in sheer

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ignorance

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in self-

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knowledge there is no place for

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knowledge even that of the knowledge I

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am all of it gets washed

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out have you heard this

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anywhere for some spiritual teachers

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is consciousness is the upper

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limit they

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say you are not the body but the dynamic

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Consciousness they do not go beyond

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Consciousness even my Guru told

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me you are

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consciousness

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what is beyond

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that you have to find it

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yourself the Consciousness is

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Godly but it is not

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Eternal anani is an expression of the

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Eternal in a bodily

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form

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the Nani is not the

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form they only appear to be

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so they are the

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absolute the

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Eternal the transient

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Consciousness cannot accompany the Nani

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indefinitely

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ultimately Consciousness is

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temporary your true reality is prior to

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the

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senses

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spaceless

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Timeless without

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attributes Consciousness is a temporary

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condition which has come upon the total

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Timeless

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spaceless changeless

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state it is a happening which has

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come and which will

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disappear don't arrogate to yourself the

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doership of

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anything it is all just

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happening

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the sense I

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am is the manifestation of a deeper

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cause which you may call Self God

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reality or by any other

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name but it is beyond

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thoughts

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there can be no knowledge of the

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unmanifested the potential is

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unknowable only the actual can be

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known nature will take its

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course it is only to be observed and

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understood

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nothing is to be

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done all

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manifestation is

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conceptual the I

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amness the primary

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concept is the highest reality as far as

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this manifestation is

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concerned but it has come in with

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time and will go out with

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time in your original

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state there is no awareness of

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awareness as the absolute you are

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infinite

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timeless

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as

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Infinity you express yourself as

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space as

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timelessness you express yourself as

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time unless there is space and

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time you cannot be conscious of

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yourself when space and time are present

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there is

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consciousness you descend into this

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Consciousness and express yourself in

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manifold

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ways in innumerable

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forms in that total

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manifestation various phenomena come

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into

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being but there is nothing separate

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there is never an independent

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entity there can be no separate

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individual

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eventually the one who gets

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liberated is the

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consciousness

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in

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spirituality one attains a state of

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nity there is neither I

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am nor

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others self-knowledge is

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profound and

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mysterious when you know the origin and

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cause of your consciousness

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there will be no birth or death for

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you it is like catching the

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thief the I am knowledge was

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absent it has suddenly entered like a

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thief the Eternal never said I

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am

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this thief which entered is saying I

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[Music]

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am we must find out as to where from

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this thief

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entered you were in the state of

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nity in which the sense of being was

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absent due to this thief The Duality

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started with I am

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and the experience of the

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world the cosmic

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spirit is the experience of

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Silence in which there are no

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words the appearance of a sense of being

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is the the beginning of

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conflict in its

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absence there is

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peace and

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Tranquility in the absence of a sense of

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being there were no

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needs including the craving to be or to

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exist

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the sense of being gives rise to all

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kinds of

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needs other teachers will tell you how

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to achieve

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Perfection none will tell you that you

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are already

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perfect prior to doing

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anything the question is only of knowing

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it

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directly awareness is

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primordial it is the original

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state

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beginningless

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endless

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uncaused un

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unsupported without

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Parts without

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change awareness is

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absolute Consciousness is relative to

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its

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content Consciousness is always of

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something Consciousness is partial and

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changeful awareness is

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total Chang

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less calm and

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silent and it is the common Matrix of

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every

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experience awareness makes Consciousness

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possible

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there is awareness in every state of

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consciousness therefore the very

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consciousness of being

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conscious is already a movement in

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Awareness interest in your stream of

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Consciousness takes you to

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awareness

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it is not a new

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state it is at once recognized as the

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original basic

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existence which is life

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itself and also love and

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joy

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