There’s a fierceness about life that calls for a fierceness to not anxiously solve it but to allow it to transform you.
ADYASHANTIAt 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.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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In order to be truly free, you must desire to know the truth more than you want to feel good. Because, if feeling good is your goal, then as soon as you feel better you will lose interest in what is true.
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As you peel it back, in the heart of nothing, that is love. You are what you are seeking. Life is a set up so that each of us can actually see in ourselves the truth for ourselves.
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Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.
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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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A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom.
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As long as you perceive that anyone is holding you back, you have not taken full responsibility for your own liberation. Liberation means that you stand free of making demands on others and life to make you happy.
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What you run away from owns you. You are the dog on a leash. The most you can do is to tug against the leash.
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Refuse to disconnect from love and every relationship will be totally transformed; even the relationship with yourself.
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To see things as you see them or to see things differently—until you have given the whole world its freedom—you’ll never have your freedom.
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Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness
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It is good to remember that the goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.
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At each moment we are expressing what we know ourselves to be. If we know ourselves very little we will express and manifest that unconsciousness of our true nature.
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It is in the absolute surrender of all conditions and requirements that Liberation is discovered to be who and what you are. Then the love and wisdom that flows out of you has a liberating effect on others.
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My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.
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In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself. Primordial awareness is the source in which all objects arise and subside.
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