Please read quotes 857-860 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

For those who seek eternal life the assurance stands: the senses five retracted tortoise-like, the mind turned homeward to the Self and there abiding is pure bliss.

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Please read quotes 853-856 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

Death is nothing but the fond delusion that this newcomer, the body, is oneself. When the ego, the clinging to delusion, ends, the ensuing bliss of true Awareness, being one without a second, this, this only is immortality.

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Please read quote #852 and the introduction to Step Five in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the introduction to Step Five:

Be inspired, encouraged, and motivated to:

1. Make and maintain the decision to bring the imposter self and all suffering to its final end and thus remain forever in infinite-awareness-love-bliss.

2. Actually practice all seven steps.

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Please read quotes 848-851 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

When dispassion and longing for Freedom are strong, then restfulness and the other graces will bear fruit.

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Please read quotes 844-847 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

The steadying of the powers that act and perceive, each in its own sphere, turning them back from sensuality; this is self-control.

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Please read quotes 841-843 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

Four perfections are numbered by the wise. When they are present there is success, but in their absence is failure.

First is counted the discernment between things lasting and unlasting. Next, Dispassion, the indifference to self-indulgence. Then the six graces, beginning with restfulness. Then the longing for freedom.

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Please read quotes 837-840 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

The practice of faith, devotion and meditation are declared by scripture to be the means to liberation for a seeker after liberation. He who perseveres in these will achieve freedom from the bondage to the body, created by ignorance.

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Please read quotes 833-836 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

The settling of the mind in its goal, by turning away from the mass of objets through observing their defects again and again, is known as peace.

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Please read quotes 829-832 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

If you really have a desire for liberation, avoid the senses from a great distance, as you would poison, and continually practice the nectar-like qualities of contentment, compassion, forbearance, honesty, calm and restraint.

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Please read quotes 827-828 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

Liberation confers “inner coolness” (peace) on the mind; bondage promotes psychological distress. Even after realizing this, one does not strive for liberation. How foolish people are! Such people are overcome by desire for sense-gratification. But even they can cultivate a desire for liberation by a study of this scripture.

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