Pure awareness/Acceptance quotes:

It is only through silent awareness that our physical and mental nature can change. This change is completely spontaneous. If we make an effort to change we do no more than shift our attention from one level from one thing to another. !e remain in a vicious circle. This only transfers energy from one point to another. It still leaves us oscillating "etween suffering and pleasure each leading inevita"ly "ack to the other. #nly living stillness stillness without someone trying to "e still is capa"le of undoing the conditioning our "iologoical emotional and psychological nature has undergone. There is no controller no selector no personality making choices. In choiceless living the situation is given the freedom to unfold. $ou do not grasp one aspect over another for there is no"ody to grasp. !hen you understand something and live it without "eing stuck to the formulation what you have understood dissolves in your openness. In this silence change takes place of its own accord the pro"lem is resolved and duality ends. $ou are left in your glory where no one has understood and nothing has "een understood.% & 'ean (lein I Am

The root of all desires is the one desire: to come home to "e at peace. There may "e a moment in life when our compensatory activities the accumulation of money learning and o")ects leaves us feeling deeply apathetic. This can motivate us towards the search for our real nature "eyond appearances. !e may find ourselves asking *!hy am I here+ !hat is life+ !ho am I+* ,ooner or later any intelligent person asks these questions. !hat you are looking for is what you already are not what you will "ecome. !hat you already are is the answer and the source of the question. In this lies its power of transformation. It is a present actual fact. -ooking to "ecome something is completely conceptual merely an idea. The seeker will discover that he is what he seeks and that what he seeks is the source of the inquiry.% & 'ean (lein I Am

.The "est way to "ring a malfunction to an end on either the physical or psychological plane is tototally accept the perception we have of it. This does not mean accepting it morally "ut actively.Acceptance is lucid watchful awareness. It is this acceptance that "rings a"out the cure. ,eenfrom an .accepting. point of view/ illness no longer has any su"stance and the patient then hasthe greatest possi"le chance of getting "etter.. 0 'ean (lein 1either This 1or That I Am

.2o not nourish the ideas you have "uilt around yourself nor the image people have of you. 3eneither someone nor something )ust don*t play the game. This will "ring a"out "eing constant awareness. 0 'ean (lein

"Deeply buried within you is the conviction that all objects and your surroundings are separate from you, outside you. In the same way, feelings and your body are just objects amongst others which can also be considered separate from you. If we adopt this point of view, the ego loses its substance. Youwill come to see that your thoughts, your I-thought, emotions, likes and dislikes are e ually only perceived objects. !his standpoint will lead you to reali"e spontaneously that you are the ultimate knower, and your notion of being a personal entity will thus lose all meaning." 0 'ean (lein

.4verything that can "e perceived has no reality/ it has need of an agent to "e known. 5onsciousnessalone is real "ecause it needs no agent. The "ody is )ust an idea. It appears and disappears inconsciousness and what appears and disappears in consciousness is nothing else than consciousness.The "ody the whole universe is an e6pression of consciousness.. 0'ean (lein

.Awareness of stillness of silence may first arise in the a"sence of o")ects as often happens in sittingmeditation. 3ut later it is sustained in "oth their presence and a"sence. This awareness which islistening is the "ackground of every appearance so that even while engaged in activity you are aware of "oth the activity and "eing.. 0'ean (lein

...."ecause the motive "ehind all effort is to "e effortless. The sole desire is for desirelessness. $ou seethis when you look at what happens the moment a desired o")ect is o"tained. There is desirelessness"ut no"ody who is desireless so at this point there is no o")ect as its cause. $ou live in your real non0dual nature. -ater however you leave it and the .I. enters saying .I was happy "ecause I "ought a newhouse or met a new friend. and so on. 3ut a time comes when this o")ect no longer suffices. ,o you"egin anew to search for some other o")ect. And this vicious circle continues until you finally see thatdesirelessness has a"solutely nothing to so with any o")ect. It is in

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