Once again, we find ourselves back in the unknown – not in the idea of the unknown, but in the lived reality of it. It’s the mind humbled, on its knees, with bare feet and free of the known.
ADYASHANTIThe aim of my teaching is enlightenment, awakening from the dream state of separateness into the reality of the One. In short, my teaching is focused on realizing what you are.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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Be a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don’t expect it to be easy or even noticed.
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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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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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Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier.
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Ego is neither positive nor negative. Those are simply concepts that create more boundaries. Ego is just ego, and the disaster of it all is that you, as a spiritual seeker, have been conditioned to think of the ego as bad, as an enemy, as something to be destroyed.
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Feel this moment, see it with a willingness to experience it deeply, whether it be good, bad, or indifferent. Emotionally and feelingly be fully present, right here, vulnerable, with your heart. Just be present. Don’t live from your conditioned mind, live from unconditional truth.
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You can’t lose what you serve. That’s the secret. What you serve, you can’t lose. What you don’t serve and what you try to hold onto, you can’t hold onto. It’s always slipping out of your fingers.
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Has it ever occurred to you that you are seeking God with His eyes?
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The willingness to not bypass illusion is very important. We come to nirvana by way of samsara. We come to see the true nature of things by seeing through the illusory nature of things.
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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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This world is not my concern; it is myself.
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In True Meditation, we’re in the body as a means to transcend it. It is paradoxical that the greatest doorway to the transcendence of form is through form itself.
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The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda.
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When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.
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There’s something more to life than what we see on the surface.
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