"We may think about the future, but that thinking about the future is in the Now. So there is only the Now, and there is only that single I that is being aware of it all. "
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"Most fear comes down to the fact we are afraid that the world will not be the way I think it should be in order for me to be happy. It's like if "I'm going to be happy, I have to have this, I have to have that..."
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"Then we go around looking to change the world the whole time, but it's because you're so busy wanting something else, we are so busy wondering "are we going to be happy in the future" that we never give ourselves the opportunity to stop and be happy in the present"
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"And this is what we do is we create discontent in ourselves and then look at the world to relieve the discontent." "Jesus said "the kingdom of heaven is not out there it's right here", and all the other teachers have said we are looking in the wrong direction. "
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"I think there have always been people who've woken up in some way or another, through spiritual practice, through pure chance, whatever. But then all you had to understand it was your local community, your local religion, whatever that was. "
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"You know this is going out on the internet. I am learning from other people. That feeds me. What I am discovering I share, that feeds other people. So we are all learning from each other, and when you have that, you have an acceleration happening."
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"It's happening faster and faster and what is fascinating now is you're finding more and more real spiritual teachers. They're not saying "I'm a guru" they're just saying we are people who are waking up in our own culture and sharing with other people what they're discovering."
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