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Martin Heiland-Sperling
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“We can only start to allow consciousness to wake up from its identification with thought and feeling, with body and mind and personality, by allowing ourselves to rest in the natural state from the very beginning.”
― True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness
― True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness
“Effortless doesn’t mean no effort; effortless means just enough effort to be vivid, to be present, to be here, to be now. To be bright. My teacher used to call this “effortless effort.” We each need to find out for ourselves what this means. Too much effort and we get too tight; too little effort and we get dreamy. Somewhere in the middle is a state of vividness and clarity and inner brightness.”
― True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness
― True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness
“We see the world not as it is, but as we are.”
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“The more I think about things, the more I see no rhyme or reason in life. no one knows why some things work out and some things don't. Why some of us are lucky and some of us get...”
― Notting Hill
― Notting Hill
“often, if we are not careful, these ancient traditions and techniques—many of which I myself was taught, and which have great value—become an end instead of a means to an end. People end up with what is simply a discipline. They end up watching their breath for years and years and years, becoming perfect at watching their breath. But in the end spirituality is not about watching the breath. It’s about waking up from the dream of separateness to the truth of unity. That’s what it’s about, and this can get forgotten if we adhere too closely to technique.”
― True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness
― True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness
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