[And yet] it is astounding how completely we humans define ourselves by the content of our minds, feelings, and history.
ADYASHANTIAwareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.
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The biggest embrace of love you’ll ever make is to embrace yourself completely. Then you’ll realize you’ve just embraced the whole universe, and everything and everybody in it.
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There is nothing wrong with thought and it can be used whenever necessary. But in every moment you can choose to follow your thoughts or you can recognize that which is not thinking. Don’t try to stop thinking, let it happen. Just recognize that which is not thinking.
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Whatever you can become will ultimately be destroyed. Only what you already are can’t be taken away.
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The world’s problems are, by and large, human problems-the unavoidable consequence of egoic sleepwalking. If we care to look, all the signs are present to suggest that we are not only sleepwalking, but at times borderline insane as well.
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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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Doubt is always accompanied by a pervasive cynicism that unconsciously puts a negative spin on whatever it touches.
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Most human beings spend their lives battling with opposing inner forces: what they think they should do versus what they are doing; how they feel about themselves versus how they are; whether they think they’re right and worthy or wrong and unworthy.
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Truth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is discovered minute to minute or not at all.
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There is a very Simple Secret to being happy. Just let go of your ‘demand’ on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering.
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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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If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.
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Stop all delays, all seeking and all striving. Put down your concepts, ideas and beliefs. For one instant be still and directly encounter the silent unknown core of your being. In that instant Freedom will embrace you and reveal the Awakening that you are.
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There’s something more to life than what we see on the surface.
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All is always well even when it seems unbelievably unwell.
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The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.
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