Please read and contemplate quote #262 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. This is a portion of that quote:

Like the mirage that produces an illusory oasis in the desert, the senses create the impression that there is a real world in front of us that is being perceived by the mind.

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Please read and contemplate quotes #259-261 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. This is the last quote today:

If I am to affirm who I am, my true nature, I am the Self that knows nothing of the fleshly body, life, intelligence and mind, that is free of all darkness, the true ‘I’ that excels as pure consciousness.

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Please read and contemplate quotes #256-258 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. This is the last quote today:

The Self, revealed as our true nature within the heart through the power of Self-inquiry, is none other than the peerless reality of the Supreme, which alone remains after this worldly illusion has faded into nothingness.

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Please read and contemplate quotes #253-255 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. This is the last quote today:

Ignorance will not be eradicated except in those who, through the power of Self-inquiry conducted assiduously within the heart, have attained the victorious absolute vision in which the whole panoply of manifestation is transcended, being seen as a mere cinema show.

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Please read and contemplate quotes #249-252 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. This is the last quote today:

The eye of the Self, consciousness, alone constitutes true seeing. That eye never perceives anything at all. If it be said that the eye perceives anything whatsoever, then that eye too, like the thing it perceives, is a mental creation. It is not the true eye.

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Please read and contemplate quotes #245-248 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. This is the last quote today:

Only when the world-illusion goes does the blissful light of Self arrive. Life lived in this bright, blissful light is our true, natural life. Other ways of life are full of trouble and fear.

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Please read and contemplate quotes #241-244 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. This is the last quote today:

The universe out there appears when scanned. But when not scanned, it disappears. Turning away from this, search keenly for the Self within the heart, and think no more of birth.

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Please read and contemplate quotes #237-240 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. This is the last quote today:

One forgets the Self and thinks the body is oneself and goes through innumerable births and in the end remembers and remains the Self. Know this is only like awaking from a dream wherein one has wandered all over the world.

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Please read and contemplate quotes #233-236 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. This is the last quote today:

Only by  courtesy is the body, vulnerable and born to die, called an entity substantial. The sole reality, the only thing permanent and ultimate, is Self-awareness. That alone.

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Please read and contemplate quotes #229-232 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. This is the last quote today:

Vast, whole, immutable, the Self reflected in the mind’s distorting mirror may appear to move. Know that it is the image moving, the true Self never moves or changes.

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