The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being.
ADYASHANTIAwareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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That there is nothing to support, that the whole ego experience was a flimsy illusion. So you stand alone but are never, never lonely because everywhere you look, all you see is That, and you are That.
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Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness
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To be here, all you have to do is let go of who you think you are. That’s all! And then you realize, “I’m here.” Here is where thoughts aren’t believed. Every time you come here, you are nothing.
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The most difficult thing for spiritual seekers to do is to stop struggling, striving, seeking, and searching. Why? Because in the absence of struggle you don’t know who you are; you lose your boundaries.
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This world is not my concern; it is myself.
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We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world.
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Imagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.
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Thoughts in your head are really no different than the sound of a bird outside. It is just that you decide that they are more or less relevant.
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One doesn’t stay in a state of nirvana by hiding from difficulties. You stay in nirvana by lavishing nirvana on everyone you meet, by giving it away as fast as you receive it.
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If you have any image of what the Truth is, slay it immediately because that’s not it.
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What is really important you can’t understand with your mind.
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In liberation, you stand alone. You stand alone because you need no supports of any kind. You need no supports because you have realized that the very notion of a separate you no longer exists.
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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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As you gently relax into awareness, into listening, the mind’s compulsive contraction around objects will fade. Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.
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Freedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom.
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