By Jack Kornfield
Select wisdom from sources old and new.
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CLEAR ALL
We live at a time when all spiritual traditions and contemporary inner work schools are available to the interested seeker. However, many of us rest in the comfort of believing all spirituality and spiritual teachings lead to the same place and aspire to the same awakening.
There is no end to realization, kinds and types of awakening, or enlightenment and completeness.
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The primary import of the present contemplation is to point out the significance of both recognizing and experiencing the individual consciousness, whether we refer to it as soul, stream of consciousness, or subtle continuum of awareness.
What I would like to encourage . . . is to be open to what various teachings say, and, at the same time, question everything, even your own perceptions, until a more satisfactory method of verification than we have at present becomes available.