Adyashanti on bliss
Adyashanti319 quotes“Reality is always true to itself. When you’re in harmony with it, you experience bliss. As soon as you are not in harmony with it, you experience pain. This is the law of the universe; it is the way things are. Nobody gets out of this law.”
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Refuse to disconnect from love and every relationship will be totally transformed; even the relationship with yourself.
AdyashantiAdyashanti 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.
AdyashantiAdyashanti 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.
AdyashantiAdyashanti The truth is you can’t try to let go. Trying is the opposite of letting go. To let go is to relinquish trying. To let go is much more like to let be.
AdyashantiAdyashanti 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.
AdyashantiAdyashanti 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.
AdyashantiAdyashanti What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make through personal investigation.
AdyashantiAdyashanti A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.
AdyashantiAdyashanti Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control. This is meditation. Anything else is actually a form of concentration. Meditation and concentration are two different things. Concentration is a discipline.
AdyashantiAdyashanti As if it were their job to be nice to you, you put yourself at odds with what is, and suffering will surely follow.
AdyashantiAdyashanti It is one thing to touch a flame and know it is hot, but quite another to jump into that flame and be consumed by it.
AdyashantiAdyashanti My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.
AdyashantiAdyashanti If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume your mind’s clothing with more sooty knowledge.
AdyashantiAdyashanti A few minutes ago, you knew who you were-you had a history and a personality-but from this place of not knowing, you question all of that.
AdyashantiAdyashanti The beautiful thing about the truth of being is that it’s so unimaginably immediate.
AdyashantiAdyashanti Freedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom.
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Laura ChouetteLaura Chouette Always find a reason to love.
H. DcostaH. Dcosta You are healing yourself with poetry what could be more beautiful than that?
Aurora RaineAurora Raine Not everyone takes every opportunity that comes their way because it takes a lot of work.
Edgar DoucetEdgar Doucet I could never love her, the fear of losing would be too strong.
AtticusAtticus The lack of influence or power is more dangerous than worrying about things being reduced to nothingness.
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The Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna Meditate upon the Knowledge and Bliss Eternal , and you will also have bliss.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna Such are these places where lovers of bliss behold the angel of peace
AberjhaniAberjhani How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
PetrarchPetrarch A musk deer searches for the source of the fragrance of musk, but it won’t find it because the fragrance comes from within itself. Bliss is not to be found outside of us; it exists within us.
Mata AmritanandamayiMata Amritanandamayi Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True “I” enjoys the stillness of bliss.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi The seat of Realization is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart.
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