As if some dreadful fate would overcome us if we were to face the pure light of truth and lay bare our fearful clinging to illusion.
ADYASHANTIEvery time you claim, “I am this”, you just claimed another sense perception, thought, emotion, or feeling.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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Truth is not over there, wherever over there is. Truth is neither housed in religious rituals nor secret doctrines, nor in a guru’s touch or beatific smile, nor in exotic locations or ancient temples.
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You’ll have more love than you know what to do with. Whatever you are inside, you receive a thousandfold on the outside.
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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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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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Whatever you can become will ultimately be destroyed. Only what you already are can’t be taken away.
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Awareness isn’t something we own; awareness isn’t something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.
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There’s something more to life than what we see on the surface.
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Our yearning for truth actually comes from truth.
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Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretence. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.
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Most human beings have an imprinting that if they’re real, if they’re honest, somebody’s not gonna like it. And they won’t be able to control their environment if they tell the truth.
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You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.
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The unknown, our own true nature, has the capacity to wake itself up when you start to fall in love with letting go of all the mental structures you hold onto. Contemplate this: there is no such thing as a true belief.
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The joke of it all is that you are looking from your true nature right now without knowing it. If you would stop being fascinated with the contents of your mind, you would experience what I am saying.
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One Zen master said, The whole universe is my true personality. This is a very wonderful saying… If you want to see what you truly are, open the window, and everything you see is in fact the expression of your inner reality. Can you embrace all of it?
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So the biggest act of compassion starts within. And when the self is no longer seen as a problem, this is called “the peace that passes all understanding.
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