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To SEE that the dark shadow of any dragon is just as unreal as the shadow of the treasure that it guards... is the doorway into a world wherein no fearful shadows can dwell.

Part 2

The thought is not the thing: thought is a shadow of whatever it represents as being "real," which means the following must hold true: whatever may be (our) sense of self that mistakes the unreal for being real... must itself be a shadow, as well.

Part 3

There is only one kingdom where no shadows dwell... where nothing can hide in them: In the realm of undivided attention there are no shadows because there is no separate sense of self to cast it, let alone worship or live in the fear of it.

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The more we complain about any unwanted moment in life, the more certain we can be that it will repeat itself.

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The more we are at ease with complaining about something, the more difficult, the harder becomes our life. Why? Because the repetition of any negative reaction not only makes it harder to see just how destructive it is, but (it) also serves to strengthen our unconscious inclination to identify with a lower level of consciousness responsible for its repeated appearance.

Trying to change any unwanted condition without first awakening to, and then realizing the nature of the consciousness responsible for creating it... is like blaming a mirror for what you don't like seeing (in it).

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We remain convinced that if we feel like something is missing in our life, then the answer must be to acquire it; this has always been our go-to solution when suffering over some discontent. But as long as our hope for contentment is remanded over to a search for something outside of ourselves, we will never see the fact that this discontent is inseparable from our present level of self, let alone come to understand that the only solution for it lies hidden therein... in the last place we would ever think to search for it.

Part 2

Hidden in the heart of any anxious, or otherwise fearful question is its answer. Look nowhere else!

Part 3

There are times when the best answer to life is to have no answer at all, but rather to let life reveal -- and then dissolve -- the false sense of self that’s anxiously seeking a solution to its suffering.

We must make -- and keep -- a special place within us for what we love; otherwise, our heart becomes an overnight motel filled with the visitations of a thousand fickle lovers... not one of which is capable of loving anything other than itself.

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To resist, and then avoid the unwanted appearance of any limitation in our life is the failure that we fear in that same moment. There is no other failure than to live in fear, and it exists only in the (self-inflicted) isolation of unconsciously identifying with any form of negative imagination.

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Resistance is slow-setting concrete; where the more we don’t want (to see) some moment in our life, the more inflexible becomes our reaction to it, making it harder and harder to see it in any other light.

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Creating, and then identifying with its own negative reactions is one of the ways the “false self” works to hide the truth of its essential nothingness... from itself.

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Just as we are attracted to what we want, primarily for the strong sense of self derived from that desire, so is it true that we are drawn to what we don't want... for the same reason. Our unconscious nature cares only for what serves to confirm it -- as it imagines itself to be; so, for that nature, the whole idea of having either a positive image in which to revel, or some negative image that it summarily rejects, is an afterthought. The only thing that matters to this lower level of self... is that it has a mirror in which it can gaze upon itself to its heart's content.

The smallest effort to remember your relationship with the Divine connects you to a calmness whose power is the strength found in all things deep.

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Whatever is created in time... is a creation of time; and all creations -- in, and of time -- must pass when their time is up.

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If we ever look closely, we would see that the fear we have of the future is always dressed as a beggar; but if we dared even a closer look, we'd see that not only does that beggar bear a striking resemblance to us... but he is dressed in our clothes, and is in our shoes.

Part 3

Any tomorrow we imagine cannot free us from some painful moment in our past because whatever the nature of that time we hope will come to free us... does not exist from the time we hope to escape.