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The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.

Adyashanti

Doubt is always accompanied by a pervasive cynicism that unconsciously puts a negative spin on whatever it touches.
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Accomplained Always Cynicism Doubt Negative Spin Touch Unconsciously
The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?
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Ask Intimate Most Power Question Self Spiritual
In the same vein, my teachings are not meant to acquire followers or imitators, but to awaken beings to eternal truth and thus to awakened life and living.
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Acquire Awakened Eternal Follower Initiator Living Teaching
As I often tell my students, the person you’ll have the hardest time opening to and truly loving without reserve is yourself. Once you can do that, you can love the whole universe unconditionally.
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Hardest Loving Often Opening Person Reserve Student Time
Silence and stillness are not states and therefore cannot be produced or created. Silence is the non-state in which all states arise and subside. Silence, stillness and awareness are not states and can never be perceived in their totality as objects.
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Created Meditation Mind Produced Silence Stillness
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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Doorway Greatest Mean Meditation Paradoxical True Yoga
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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Everyday Integrate Integrating Life Spiritual
We don’t come to nirvana by avoiding samsara. We don’t come to clarity by avoiding confusion.
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Avoid Avoiding Confusion Nirvana Samsara
The beautiful thing about the truth of being is that it’s so unimaginably immediate.
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Beautiful Immediate Thing Truth Being Unimaginavly
If we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn’t that what silence is? It’s a listening, a deep wordless listening.
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Around Conditioned Deeply Listen Listening Look Silence
True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.
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Experience Go Letting Manipulating Meditation Telling
The mind may accept or deny that you are awareness, but either way it can’t really understand. It cannot comprehend. Thought cannot comprehend what is beyond thought.
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Accept Awareness Comprehensive May Mind Understand Way
Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.
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Box Compassion Empty Frantic Infinite Life
We think there’s someplace other than here to get to—that’s what drives the whole pursuit.
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Pursuit Self Someplace Think Thinking Truth
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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Difficult Dream Life Searching Seeker Spiritual Struggling
We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world.
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Birthed Community Sacred Sangha World

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