You don’t awaken, what has eternally been awake realizes itself. That which is eternally awake is what you are.
ADYASHANTIImagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.
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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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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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When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are.
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With 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.
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Ego is the movement of the mind toward objects of perception in the form of grasping, and away from objects in the form of aversion. This fundamentally is all the ego is.
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Whatever you resist, persists.
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Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.
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If you were able to give up control absolutely, totally, and completely, then you would be a spiritually free being.
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There’s a fierceness about life that calls for a fierceness to not anxiously solve it but to allow it to transform you.
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If you give yourself this gift of not knowing and you follow it, a vast spaciousness and mysterious openness dawns within you.
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Many people think that it is the function of a spiritual teaching to provide answers to life’s biggest questions, but actually, the opposite is true. The primary task of any good spiritual teaching is not to answer your questions, but to question your answers.
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The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?
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The proof of the depth and embodiment of your realization will be seen in your love relationship. That’s where the proof is in the pudding. If it all collapses in your relationship, you have some work to do. And people do have a lot of difficulties in their relationships.
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Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.
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As I often tell my students, the person you’ll have the hardest time opening to and truly loving without reserve is yourself. Once you can do that, you can love the whole universe unconditionally.
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