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Room For Life
“The funny thing about enlightenment is that when it is authentic, there is no one to claim it. Enlightenment is very ordinary; it is nothing special. Rather than making you more special, it is going to make you less special. It plants you right in the center of a wonderful humility and innocence.”
~ Adyashanti (20th-21st century American mystic)
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“Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us.
Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It’s just like that.
The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.”
— Pema Chödrön
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“There are no enlightened people! Consciousness awakens to its own nature, “through” the vehicle of a human being. In a way, what you are talking about is personality traits. In some traditions, development of a pure character is part of the practice. In others, this is not the focus. The way awakening is expressed, in terms of action…
