You’re willing to realize that maybe everything you’ve ever thought about yourself really isn’t true.
ADYASHANTIServing 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.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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Most spiritual seekers move away from this insecurity by seeking and striving for a distant spiritual goal. That’s how they avoid feeling insecure.
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Many spiritual people are involved in a radical denial of what is happening. They want to transcend it, get rid of it, get out of it, get away from it. There’s nothing wrong with that feeling, but the approach doesn’t work because it’s escapism in spiritual clothing.
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You’ll have more love than you know what to do with. Whatever you are inside, you receive a thousandfold on the outside.
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All we really want in the end is to be connected once again with the Truth of our being, to realize what it is that wears this mask of self.
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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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Reality is always true to itself. When you’re in harmony with it, you experience bliss. As soon as you are not in harmony with it, you experience pain. This is the law of the universe; it is the way things are. Nobody gets out of this law.
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Completion comes when we not just wake up from all form, from all identification, but when love causes us to re-embrace it all.
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Nothingness is an absolute infinite potential, not an empty box.
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Meditation is a teaching which offers you the possibility of breaking free of this egoic state of consciousness and coming into a whole new realization of who and what you truly are. And all this starts with the willingness to question.
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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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Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.
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This does not mean that feeling good or experiencing love and bliss is a bad thing. Given the choice, anyone would choose to feel bliss rather than sorrow.
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My teacher used to say ‘all love is bittersweet’. All things experienced fully, reveal their opposite.
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Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.
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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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