What is it, right now, that you don't have to attain?
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Peace is totally beyond any steps you think you have to make toward it.
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Why strive for "one-pointedness"? You won't get it that way. Simply see that one-pointedness is your natural and present state.
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Something never moves from being what it is. What is that something?
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Becoming "enlightened" is like seeing water in the desert. The water is a mirage. You will never reach it. For the moment you give credence to the notion that awakening is progressive or just ahead of you someplace, you are bound for disappointment.
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To say that one liberates oneself is still too much. It is simply a seeing or recognition that "liberation" is your very nature. For awareness is totally without limits or qualities, and you never move from being precisely That.
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This understanding has nothing to do with anything that is visionary, ecstatic, mystical, or heavenly. Neither are such occurrences prerequisites for self-knowledge.
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True love is always boundless. You can't help but smile and gaze at that person, as well as want to touch and be near him or her. Your entire being is overwhelmed with feelings of warmth, laughter, joy, and gratitude. There is just a natural pouring forth of those feelings, with little regard to one's self-image or perceived individuality.
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News & Info
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The paperback version of Fully Present is now on AMAZON! It can also be purchased at Barnes & Noble, and is available through bookstores nationwide.
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For the Kindle edition of Fully Present, go here: AMAZON.
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And go HERE for the press release for Fully Present.
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"Fully Present is an elegant addition to the growing literature on nonduality as it is being uncovered, lived and understood in the modern West."
--Philip Goldberg, author of the best-selling American Veda: From Emerson and the Beatles to Yoga and Meditation--How Indian Spirituality Changed the West. Philip's Web site can be found at www.philipgoldberg.com.
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"Rodney Stevens opens his daily life and thoughts to us in these immensely natural and pleasant ramblings of one who is fully engaged in life, love, nonduality, and cinnamon muffins."
--Catherine Ann Jones, award-winning screenwriter, spiritual workshop leader, and author of The Way of the Story: The Craft and Soul of Writing. Her Web site is www.wayofstory.com
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Rodney is also the author of A Vastness All Around: Awakening to Your Natural State, a powerful and elegant collection of essays, discussions, interviews, and powerful pointers. It can be ordered directly from the publisher at Lulu Press.
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For the book's Press Release, click Here.
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Feel free to read a review of the Kindle Edition of Vastness on Amazon.
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Nonduality Magazine has published a discussion with Rodney about his work and book. The extensive and wide-ranging interview was done by John LeKay, the magazine's editor.
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"I like your approach in A Vastness All Around. The stories, thoughts and vignettes of your life seem wonderful ways to make people stop and pay attention to where they actually are right now, rather than in some imagined past or future. They show that you don't have to be some specially qualified person, preferably with a title and a name in Sanskrit, to pursue the spiritual quest. Your message comes across particularly well in such pieces as 'Sheerness of Being.'"
--Valerie J. Roebuck, Ph.D., Honorary Research Fellow, University of Manchester (England)
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I am now doing phone consultations via Skype! Each conversation will take about an hour, and a $25 donation will be greatly appreciated.
I am also scheduling teaching events at this time. If you would like to arrange something in your area, you may email me at: writerguy (at) fastmail (dot) fm
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