Grace is something that comes to us when we somehow find ourselves completely available, when we become openhearted and open-minded, and are willing to entertain the possibility that we may not know what we think we know.
ADYASHANTIThere is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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If you were able to give up control absolutely, totally, and completely, then you would be a spiritually free being.
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Once again, we find ourselves back in the unknown – not in the idea of the unknown, but in the lived reality of it. It’s the mind humbled, on its knees, with bare feet and free of the known.
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You will only lose when you resist reality; you will only struggle when you disagree with what is.
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The goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.
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You’re willing to realize that maybe everything you’ve ever thought about yourself really isn’t true.
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It has no intention to harmonize. It has no agenda. It just happens. The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda. Everything else will have an agenda.
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Freedom is a state of complete and absolute insecurity and not knowing. So, in seeking security and safety, you actually distance yourself from the freedom you want.
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Nothingness is an absolute infinite potential, not an empty box.
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If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.
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This world is not my concern; it is myself.
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Awareness isn’t something we own; awareness isn’t something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.
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The mind wants to land, to fixate, to hold a concept, but the only way you can be really free is by not fixating. That’s part of true maturity, and it’s one of the hardest things for spiritual people who have had true and powerful revelations to go through.
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It is one thing to touch a flame and know it is hot, but quite another to jump into that flame and be consumed by it.
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Life becomes almost magical. The illusion of the “me” is no longer in the way. Life begins to flow, and you never know where it will take you.
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When you let go of the egoic self what you’re getting in exchange is the whole universe.
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