Clarity is the first principle of freedom because all questions ask for clarity. Getting clear, not getting answers, that's the first principle.
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Knowledge is information, and you can get it from everywhere. Understanding is individual and qualitatively different. Knowledge you forget easily, but understanding never leaves you. Knowledge, conceptual understanding, is a beginning, it is not a complete understanding. You haven't integrated your understanding, you're looking on from a distance, you are not involved with your whole being. True understanding is not merely conceptual, it is your life, you breathe it.
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Truth lies beyond intellectual conceptions of it, or, it exists prior to our conceptions of it.
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And truth is not afraid to be questioned, it can't lose out. Truth, in fact, becomes stronger and more self-evident in the process of being questioned and looked into.
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Individuality means that you are your own authority.
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Co-existence is not peace and a living agreement is not love.
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1# CLARITY
Clarity is the first principle of freedom because all questions ask for clarity. Getting clear, not getting answers, that’s the first principle.
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1# CLARITY
Knowledge is information, and you can get it from everywhere. Understanding is individual and qualitatively different. Knowledge you forget easily, but understanding never leaves you. Knowledge, conceptual understanding, is a beginning, it is not a complete understanding. You haven’t integrated your understanding, you are looking on from a distance, you are not involved with your whole being. True understanding is not merely conceptual, it is your life, you breathe it.
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1# CLARITY
Truth lies beyond intellectual conceptions of it, or, it exists prior to our conceptions of it.
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1# CLARITY
And truth is not afraid to be questioned, it can’t lose out. Truth, in fact, becomes stronger and more self-evident in the process of being questioned and looked into.
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2# UNICITY
Deny something and it will go underground and express itself in a violent way.
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2# UNICITY
Polarities are not opposites. (...) And one polarity cannot be thought of as seperate from the other. (...) Life is the movement between polarities, and one polarity gives the other its meaning.
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3# INNOCENCE
Buying into responsibility as if it is ultimately mine is the root of all ego. Ego is believing that the credit is truly mine.
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