If you were able to give up control absolutely, totally, and completely, then you would be a spiritually free being.
ADYASHANTILove causes us to be deeply connected in an unspoken way. It happens when we’re really available, really open.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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How do I integrate spirituality into my everyday life? Throw out the concept of “spiritual life” and “everyday life.” There is only life, undivided and whole.
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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 someone says, ‘I love you,’ he is telling you about himself, not you. When someone says, ‘I hate you,’ she is telling you about herself, not you. World views are self views-literally.
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True love has nothing to do with liking someone, agreeing with him or her or being compatible. It is a love of unity, a love of seeing God wearing all the masks, and recognising itself in them all..
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Many spiritual people are involved in a radical denial of what is happening. They want to transcend it, get rid of it, get out of it, get away from it. There’s nothing wrong with that feeling, but the approach doesn’t work because it’s escapism in spiritual clothing.
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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 Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda.
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This movement of grasping and aversion gives rise to a sense of a separate ‘me,’ and in turn the sense of ‘me’ strengthens itself this way.
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Everybody is free to be as they are. Until the whole world is free to agree with you or disagree with you, until you have given the freedom to everyone to like you or not like you, to love you or hate you,
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Has it ever occurred to you that you are seeking God with His eyes?
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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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You are the doorway to the infinite.
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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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My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.
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Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.
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