There’s a great space in which this moment takes place. There’s a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.
ADYASHANTIWith this love you can feel the walls of opposition come down naturally in the acknowledgement of deep connection. Not only do the walls of opposition fall, but love is felt for every human being and for life itself.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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At a certain point we need to grow up; we need to look inside ourselves for our inner guidance. There are things most human beings know; they just don’t want to know them.
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When you realize what you are now, the issue of death will solve itself.
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You lose your separateness, you lose your specialness, you lose the dream you have lived all your life. Eventually you lose everything that your mind has created and awaken to who you truly are: the fullness of freedom, unbound by any identifications, identities, or boundaries.
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Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.
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Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.
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Eventually, in the state of liberation, meditation will simply become your natural condition.
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[And yet] it is astounding how completely we humans define ourselves by the content of our minds, feelings, and history.
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To remain unconscious of being is to remain asleep to our own reality and therefore asleep to reality at large. The choice is simple: awaken to being or sleep an endless sleep.
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At first it seems as if begoing follows becoming. But look even closer and you will see that there are only flashes of lightning illuminating the empty sky.
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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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What you run away from owns you. You are the dog on a leash. The most you can do is to tug against the leash.
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No matter what spiritual path you’ve walked or what teachings you’ve followed, they must lead you back to no path and no teaching. A true teaching is like a blazing fire that consumes itself.
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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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Serving the Truth becomes our life instead of just an isolated event. It takes the abstractness out of spirituality. That’s the opportunity of real spirituality: to be in service to the silence of the heart.
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Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering.
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