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This Silence, This Moment, Every Moment, If It's Genuinely Inside You, Brings What You Need. There's Nothing To Believe. Only When I Stopped Believing In Myself Did I Come Into This Beauty. Sit Quietly, And Listen For A Voice That Will Say, 'be More Silent.' Die And Be Quiet. Quietness Is The Surest Sign That You've Died. Your Old Life Was A Frantic Running From Silence. Move Outside The Tangle Of Fear-thinking. Live In Silence.

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This Silence, This Moment, Every Moment, If It's Genuinely Inside You, Brings What You Need. There's Nothing To Believe. Only When I Stopped Believing In Myself Did I Come Into This Beauty. Sit Quietly, And Listen For A Voice That Will Say, 'be More Silent.' Die And Be Quiet. Quietness Is The Surest Sign That You've Died. Your Old Life Was A Frantic Running From Silence. Move Outside The Tangle Of Fear-thinking. Live In Silence.

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