TABLE OF CONTENTS
Fineprint:
Voice recordings by PhilPhilms
with his permission via Facebook from April 13, 2019.
Original text from Philip Evan Cowlishaw:
“I do not own the rights to this book.
This is for educational purposes only.
Thanks for this beautiful music.”
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in the light of consciousness all sorts
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of things happen and one need not give
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special importance to any the sight of a
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flower is as marvelous as the vision of
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God let them be
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[Music]
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why remember them and then make memory
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into a problem be bland about them do
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not divide them into high and low inner
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and outer lasting and transient go
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beyond go back to the source go to the
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self that is the same whatever happens
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[Music]
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your weakness is due to your conviction
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that you were born into the world in
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reality the world is ever recreated in
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you and by you see everything as
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emanating from the light which is the
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source of your own being you will find
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that in that light there is love and
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infinite energy
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see what you are don’t ask
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others don’t let others tell you about
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yourself look within and see all the
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teacher can tell you is only this there
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is no need for going from one to another
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the same water is in all the wells you
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just draw from the nearest in my case
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the water is within me and I am the
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water
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[Music]
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the body appears in your mind your mind
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is the content of your consciousness you
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are the motionless witness of the river
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of consciousness which changes eternally
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without changing you in any way your own
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changelessness is so obvious that you do
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not notice it have a good look at
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yourself and all these miss
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apprehensions and misconceptions will
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dissolve just as all the little watery
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lives are in water and cannot be without
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water so all the universe is in you and
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cannot be without you
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[Music]
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God is only an idea in your mind the
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fact is you
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the only thing you know for sure is here
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and now I am remove the here and now the
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I am remains unassailable
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[Music]
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examine the motion of change and you
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will see what can change while you do
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not change can be said to be independent
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of you but what is changeless must be
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one with whatever else is changeless for
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duality implies interaction and
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interaction means change in other words
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the absolutely material and the
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absolutely spiritual the totally
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objective and the totally subjective are
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identical both in substance and essence
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[Music]
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[Music]
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the main point to grasp is that you have
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projected on to yourself a world of your
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own imagination based on memories on
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desires and fears and that you have
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imprisoned yourself in it
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break the spell
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and be free
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see the imaginary as imaginary and be
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free of fear
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[Music]
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when you look at anything it is the
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ultimate you see but you imagine that
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you see a cloud or a tree learn to look
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without imagination to listen without
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distortion that is all stop
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attributing names and shapes to the
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essentially nameless and formless
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realize that every mode of perception is
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objective that what is seen or heard
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touched or smelt felt or thought
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expected or imagined is in the mind and
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not in reality and you will experience
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peace and freedom from fear even the
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sense of I am is composed of the pure
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light and the sense of being the eye is
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there even without the am so is the pure
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light there whether you say I or not
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become aware of that light and you will
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never lose it the beingness in being the
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awareness in consciousness the interest
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in every experience that is not
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describable yet perfectly accessible for
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there is nothing else
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[Music]
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[Music]
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when you realize that you are the light
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of the world you will also realize that
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you are the love of it that to know is
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to love and to love is to know of all
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the affections the love of oneself comes
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first your love of the world is the
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reflection of your love of yourself for
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your world is of your own creation light
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and love are impersonal but they are
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reflected in your mind as knowing and
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wishing oneself well we are always
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friendly towards ourselves but not
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always wise a yogi is a man whose good
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will is allied to wisdom
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first words then silence one must be
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ripe for silence unselfish work leads to
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silence for when you work selflessly you
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don’t need to ask for help you just do
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what needs be done
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leaving success and failure to the
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unknown for everything is caused by
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innumerable factors of which your
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personal endeavor is but one yet such is
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the magic of man’s mind and heart that
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the most improbable happens when human
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will and love pull together
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work on and the universe will work with
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you after all the very idea of doing the
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right comes to you from the unknown
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leave it to the unknown as far as the
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results go just go through the necessary
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movements you are merely one of the
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links in the long chain of causation
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fundamentally all happens in the mind
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only when you work for something
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wholeheartedly and steadily it happens
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for it is the function of the mind to
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make things happen in reality nothing is
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lacking and nothing is needed all work
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is on the surface only in the depths
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there is perfect peace all your problems
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arise because you have defined and
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therefore limited yourself when you do
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not think yourself to be this or that
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all conflict ceases
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[Music]
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there is no such thing as a person there
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are only restrictions and limitations
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the sum total of these defines the
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person you think you know yourself when
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you know what you are but you never know
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who you are the person merely appears to
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be like the space within the pot appears
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to have the shape and volume and smell
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of the pot see that you are not what you
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believe yourself to be fight with all
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the strength at your disposal against
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the idea that you are nameable and
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describable you are not
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what do you know about yourself you can
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only be what you are
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in reality you can only appear to be
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what you are not
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you have never moved away from
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perfection all idea of self-improvement
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is conventional and verbal as the son
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knows not darkness so does the self no
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not the non-self it is the mind which by
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knowing the other becomes the other yet
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the mind is nothing else but the self it
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is the self that becomes the other the
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not self and yet remains the self
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[Music]
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reality is the ultimate destroyer all
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separation every kind of estrangement
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and alienation is false all is one this
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is the ultimate solution of every
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conflict
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as long as we imagine ourselves to be
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separate personalities one quite apart
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from another we cannot grasp a reality
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which is essentially impersonal first we
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must know ourselves as witnesses only
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dimensionless and timeless centers of
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observation and then realize that
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immense ocean of pure awareness
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[Music]
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time and space are like words written on
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paper the paper is real the words merely
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a convention the mind creates time in
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space and takes its own creations for
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reality all is here and now but we do
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not see it truly all is in me and by me
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there is nothing else the very idea of
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else is a disaster and a calamity
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[Music]
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[Laughter]
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[Music]
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that which does not exist cannot have a
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cause there is no such thing as a
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separate person even taking the
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empirical point of view it is obvious
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that everything is the cause of
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everything that everything is as it is
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because the entire universe is as it is
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[Music]
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[Laughter]
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[Music]
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[Laughter]
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[Music]
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self-limitation is the very essence of
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personality but you are universal you
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need not and you cannot become what you
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are already only cease imagining
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yourself to be the particular what comes
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and goes has no being it owes its very
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appearance to reality you know that
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there is a world but does the world know
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you realize that you are the eternal
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source and accept all as your own such
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acceptance is true love
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having never left the house you are
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asking for the way home get rid of wrong
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ideas that is all collecting right ideas
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also will take you nowhere just cease
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imagining reality is neither subjective
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nor objective neither mind nor matter
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neither time nor space these divisions
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need somebody to whom they happen a
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conscious separate center but reality is
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all and nothing the totality and the
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exclusion the fullness and the emptiness
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fully consistent absolutely paradoxical
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you cannot speak about it you can only
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lose yourself in it when you deny
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reality to anything you come to a
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residue which cannot be denied
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[Music]
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even the idea of God as the Creator is
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false do I owe my being to any other
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being because I am all is
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every one creates a world for himself
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and lives in it imprisoned by one’s
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ignorance all we have to do is to deny
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reality to our prison
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[Music]
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[Music]
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you yourself are the proof you have not
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nor can you have any other proof you are
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yourself you know yourself you love
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yourself whatever the mind does it does
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for the love of its own self the very
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nature of the self is loved it is loved
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loving and lovable it is the self that
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makes the body and the mind so
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interesting so very dear the very
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attention given to them comes from the
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self
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awareness of being is bliss
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to know that you are neither body nor
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mind
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watch yourself steadily and live
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unaffected by your body in mind
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completely aloof as if you were dead it
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means you have no vested interests
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either in the body or in the mind I am
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NOT asking you to commit suicide nor can
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you you can only kill the body you
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cannot stop the mental process nor can
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you put an end to the person you think
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you are just remain unaffected this
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complete aloofness unconcerned with mind
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and body is the best proof that at the
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core of your being you are neither mind
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nor body what happens to the body and
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the mind may not be within your power to
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change but you can always put an end to
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your imagining yourself to be body and
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mind
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whatever happens remind yourself that
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only your body and mind are affected not
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yourself
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the more earnest you are at remembering
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what needs to be remembered the sooner
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will you be aware of yourself as you are
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for memory will become experience
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earnestness reveals being what is
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imagined and willed becomes actuality
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here lies the danger as well as the way
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out
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[Music]
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increase and widen your desires till
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nothing but reality can fulfill them
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it is not desire that is wrong but its
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narrowness and smallness desire is
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devotion by all means be devoted to the
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real the infinite the eternal heart of
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being transformed desire into love all
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you want is to be happy all your desires
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whatever they may be are expressions of
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your longing for happiness basically you
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wish yourself well by all means
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love yourself wisely what is wrong is to
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love yourself stupidly so as to make
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yourself suffer love yourself wisely
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both indulgence and austerity have the
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same purpose in view to make you happy
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indulgence is the stupid way austerity
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is the wise way
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[Music]
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it is the choices you make that are
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wrong to imagine that some little thing
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food sex power Fame will make you happy
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is to deceive yourself only something as
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vast and deep as your real self can make
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you truly and lastingly happy
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[Music]
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you are not the body and dragging the
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body from place to place will take you
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nowhere your mind is free to roam the
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three worlds make full use of it you are
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not in the body the body is in you the
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mind is in you they happen to you they
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are there because you find them
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interesting your very nature has the
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infinite capacity to enjoy it is full of
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zest and affection it does not know evil
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nor ugliness it hopes it trusts it loves
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that which you are your true self you
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love it and whatever you do you do for
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your own happiness to find it to know to
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cherish it is your basic urge since time
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immemorial you loved yourself but never
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wisely use your body and mind wisely in
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the service of the self that is all be
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true to your own self love yourself
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absolutely do not pretend that you love
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others as yourself unless you have
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realized them as one with yourself you
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cannot love them don’t pretend to be
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what you are not don’t refuse to be what
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you are your love of others is the
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result of self-knowledge not its cause
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without self-realization no virtue is
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genuine when you know beyond all
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doubting that the same life flows
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through all that is and you are that
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life you will love all naturally and
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spontaneously when you realize the depth
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and fullness of your love of yourself
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you know that every living being and the
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entire universe are included in your
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affection but when you look at anything
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as separate from you you cannot love it
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for you are afraid of it alienation
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causes fear and fear deepens alienation
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it is
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is a vicious cycle only self-realization
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can break it go for it resolutely
