Whatever you resist, persists.
ADYASHANTISpace and stillness is the light that illuminates the beauty of our soul’s being.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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Everybody is free to be as they are. Until the whole world is free to agree with you or disagree with you, until you have given the freedom to everyone to like you or not like you, to love you or hate you,
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You can’t look at what’s looking. You can’t think about that which is prior to thought.
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A few minutes ago, you knew who you were-you had a history and a personality-but from this place of not knowing, you question all of that.
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It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the rabid dissatisfaction with living anything less than a fully authentic life.
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You don’t awaken, what has eternally been awake realizes itself. That which is eternally awake is what you are.
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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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What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make through personal investigation.
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Can you imagine if you really let it in that you are not a problem to be solved in any way? Imagine you knew that anything that would tell you otherwise is just a movement of thought in the mind that says “Whatever is, isn’t the way it is supposed to be.
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Imagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.
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If we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn’t that what silence is? It’s a listening, a deep wordless listening.
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Refuse to disconnect from love and every relationship will be totally transformed; even the relationship with yourself.
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You are not your story. They are not your story about them. The world is not your story about the world.
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To pause for just a moment and realize that maybe you aren’t who you imagine yourself to be.
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When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable. It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we are not relating from the truth. It’s a beautiful pointer. It never fails.
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The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but it does change.
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