Please read quotes 1321-1324 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

Those who, instead of enjoying the bliss of the Heart — the form of consciousness — embrace and find pleasure in the objects of sense, will wander from birth to death and death to birth, alternating in that deluded consciousness between the states of remembering and forgetting.

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Please read quotes 1319-1320 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

A sincere aspirant should arrange his work in such a way that he will spend only a portion of his time and energy for maintaining the body, so that he can utilize the remaining time and energy in striving to earn the great profit of Self-knowledge.

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Please read quotes 1316-1318 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

The mind which attends to Self is no more the mind; it is the consciousness aspect of Self! Likewise, so long as it attends to the second and third persons (the world), it is not the consciousness aspect of Self; it is the mind.

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Please read quotes 1314-1315 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

There are two kinds of impediments which act as obstacles for the mind to achieve Self-abidance, and hence two kinds of strength of mind are essential for overcoming them. The first strength is that which is required to prevent the mind from branching out into innumerable thoughts through the force of tendencies towards the sense-objects. The second strength is that which is required to direct the mind (the power of attention) towards the first person or Self, that is, the strength actually to attend to Self.

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Please read quotes 1310-1313 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

You dissipate your desire for the Self by undertaking all kinds of useless activities that waste your time and lead to attachments. You think that your life is endless and that you can put off meditation till a later date. With this kind of attitude, you will die filled with regrets, not filled with peace.

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Please read quotes 1307-1309 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

Mind is not improved by long journeys to far-flung places. Instead, make an internal pilgrimage. Take the mind back to its source and plunge it into the peace-giving waters of the Self. If you once make this pilgrimage, you will never need to go looking for happiness or peace in any other place.

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Please read quotes 1305-1306 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

We have to give up all the things of this world, and all other worlds, and direct all our attention towards the Self. If we want anything in this world or the next our energy will be dispersed in these desires, and to fulfill these desires we shall have to be reborn again and again.

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Please read quotes 1301-1304 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

This worldly life of false phenomena full of fear is sinking deeper in illusion, not authentic living.

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Please read quotes 1297-1300 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

The wise renounce at heart and quite forget the wondrous charms of this false world which only ruins those who trust it.

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Please read quotes 1293-1296 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:

Absence of mental craving for sense-enjoyments is true fasting. Abidance in the Self is worship true, hence, those with pure, clear wisdom cherish as most precious this fasting and this worship.

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