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.
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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Meditation is not something restricted to times of formal seated meditation; it is most fundamentally an attitude of being-a resting in and as being. Once you get the feel of it, you will be able to tune into it more and more often during your daily life.
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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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True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.
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All delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we’re talking to ourselves and then believing what we are saying.
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Has it ever occurred to you that you are seeking God with His eyes?
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Right now you can allow yourself to experience a very simple sense of not knowing – not knowing what or who you are, not knowing what this moment is, not knowing anything.
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To be free of fear is to be full of Love.
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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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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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It is easy to imagine that the Buddha, the awakened one, is something or somewhere other than here or that awakening to reality will happen sometime other than now. But as long as we continue to think in terms of time we will deceive ourselves.
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We realize–often quite suddenly–that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who we are. It doesn’t define us, it has no center.
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There’s a great space in which this moment takes place. There’s a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.
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As soon as the mind pulls out an agenda and decides what needs to change, that’s unreality. Life doesn’t need to decide who’s right and who’s wrong. Life doesn’t need to know the “right” way to go because it’s going there anyway.
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Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.
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If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.
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