Please read quotes 823-826 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

When one is knocked about by the troubles and tribulations of earthly existence and is “tired of all this”, he seeks refuge from all this.

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Please read quote 822 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is a portion of that quote:

Even while living and functioning in this world, he who has this unconditioned vision does what has to be done as if he is asleep, without thinking of the world and its pleasures. After some years of living like this, one is fully liberated and he transcends all these states; he is liberated while living.

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Please read quotes 820-821 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

Even as darkness disappears on turning towards light, ignorance disappears if you turn towards the light of Self. As long as there does not arise a natural yearning for Self-knowledge, so long this ignorance or mental conditioning throws up an endless stream of world-appearance.

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Please read quotes 817-819 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

The real is, behind and beyond words, incommunicable, directly experienced, explosive in its effect on the mind. It is easily had when nothing else is wanted.

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Please read quotes 813-816 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

Suffering has made you dull, unable to see its enormity. Your first task is to see the sorrow in you and around you; your next to long intensely for liberation. The very intensity of longing will guide you; you need no other guide.

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Please read quotes 809-812 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

Questioner: How does one reach the Supreme State?

Maharaj: By renouncing all lesser desires. As long as you are pleased with the lesser, you cannot have the highest.

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Please read quotes 805-808 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is a portion of the last quote:

The greatest Guru is your inner Self. Truly, he is the supreme teacher. He alone can take you to your goal and he alone meets you at the end of the road. Confide in him and you need no outer Guru.

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Please read quotes 802-804 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

Merely to trust is not enough. You must also desire. Without desire for freedom of what use is the confidence that you can acquire freedom? Desire and confidence must go together. The stronger your desire, the easier comes the help.

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Please read quotes 798-801 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

Whatever name you give it: will, or steady purpose, or one-pointedness of the mind, you come back to earnestness, sincerity, honesty. When you are in dead earnest, you bend every incident, every second of your life to your purpose. You do not waste time and energy on other things. You are totally dedicated, call it will, or love, or plain honesty.

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Please read quotes 794-797 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

Your earnestness will determine the rate of progress.

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