Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.
ADYASHANTII often describe the Absolute as Pure Infinite Potential, prior to being or becoming anything. It is forever unborn, yet gives birth to all of existence. About our ultimate nature nothing can be said; it must be revealed.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.
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You think that enlightenment is something other than what is happening right now. This is your primary mistake.
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When we really start to take a look at who we think we are, we become very grace prone.
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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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Retreat is a response to the call of the heart-that call which beckons us toward reality, to the truth of our being, to that which is truly sane, really real and liberating …
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A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.
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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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To pause for just a moment and realize that maybe you aren’t who you imagine yourself to be.
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Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn’t exist?
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The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.
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We don’t come to nirvana by avoiding samsara. We don’t come to clarity by avoiding confusion.
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Deep down we all suspect that something is very wrong with the way we perceive life but we try very, very hard not to notice it. And the way we remain blind to our frightful condition is through an obsessive and pathological denial of being.
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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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Imagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.
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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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