If you have any image of what the Truth is, slay it immediately because that’s not it.
ADYASHANTIThoughts in your head are really no different than the sound of a bird outside. It is just that you decide that they are more or less relevant.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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So most of us human beings have a very deep underlying conditioning that says that just to be who we are is not OK…….
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We think there’s someplace other than here to get to—that’s what drives the whole pursuit.
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What the universe will manifest when you are in alignment with it is a lot more interesting than what you try to manifest
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Only something as insane as human beings would ever asked themselves if ‘I’m good.’ You don’t find oak trees having existential crisis. ‘I feel so rotten about myself. I don’t produce as much acorns as the one next to me.’
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If you resist confusion,you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them.
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The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being.
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Doubt is always accompanied by a pervasive cynicism that unconsciously puts a negative spin on whatever it touches.
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What would happen if you were to allow everything to be exactly as it is? If you gave up the need for control, and instead embraced the whole of your experience in each moment that arose?
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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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Life itself is nothing but relationship.
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You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.
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Now don’t think that awakening is the end. Awakening is the end of seeking, the end of the seeker, but it is the beginning of a life lived from your true nature.
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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 must want to know the truth more than you want to feel secure in order to fully awaken to the fact that you are nothing but Awakeness itself.
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Truth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is discovered minute to minute or not at all.
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