In liberation, you stand alone. You stand alone because you need no supports of any kind. You need no supports because you have realized that the very notion of a separate you no longer exists.
ADYASHANTIIn liberation, you stand alone. You stand alone because you need no supports of any kind. You need no supports because you have realized that the very notion of a separate you no longer exists.
ADYASHANTIWhat the universe will manifest when you are in alignment with it is a lot more interesting than what you try to manifest
ADYASHANTIWhen the eternal and the human meet, that’s where love is born — not through escaping our humanity or trying to disappear into transcendence, but through finding that place where they come into union.
ADYASHANTIGratitude is the appreciation of what is, of life, of existence, of anybody and anything, for just the way it is.
ADYASHANTIWhat am I, really? The beautiful thing…is nobody can tell us what we are. Nobody can really tell us. Not in a way that’s going to be satisfactory to us. Our true nature is self-authenticating. When we bump into our true nature,
ADYASHANTIThe true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.
ADYASHANTIWe think there’s someplace other than here to get to—that’s what drives the whole pursuit.
ADYASHANTIWe must leave the entire collection of conditioned thought behind and let ourselves be led by the inner thread of silence into the unknown, beyond where all paths end, to that place where we go innocently or not at all, not once but continually.
ADYASHANTIThe most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?
ADYASHANTIYou are not your story. They are not your story about them. The world is not your story about the world.
ADYASHANTIIf we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.
ADYASHANTIIt’s wearing spiritual clothing and spiritual concepts, but it is really no different than a drunk in the gutter who doesn’t want to feel the pain anymore.
ADYASHANTIThere is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.
ADYASHANTIThoughts are just moving through consciousness. They have no power. Nothing has reality until you reach it, grab it, and somehow impregnate it with the power of belief.
ADYASHANTIWhen a group of people come together as a response to that kind of inward call, it creates a very powerful environment, where truth is held in the highest esteem and the reality of our being responds to that deepest intention.
ADYASHANTIMeditation is not a technique to master; it is the highest form of prayer, a naked act of love and effortless surrender into the silent abyss beyond all knowing
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