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Enlightenment is a destructive process.

Adyashanti

One must be willing to stand alone – in the unknown, with no reference to authority or the past or any of one’s conditioning. One must stand where no one has stood before in complete nakedness, innocence, and humility.
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Alone Authority Humility Innocence Past Reference Stand Unknown
Many Sages have said, “Your world is a dream. You’re living in an illusion.” They’re referring to this world of the mind and the way we believe our thoughts about reality.
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Believe Dream Ilusion Living Many Reality Referring Sages
Nothing appears to be something. The human experience is a senseory organ for the divine self. Through these eyes, the divine gets to see itself in form.
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Appear Awareness Devine Experience Eye Human Self Sensory
All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.
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Meditation Necessity Practice Seeking Silence Yoga
My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.
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Awake Awakening Better Dream Meant Shake Speaking
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.
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Go Here Integrity Letting Realize Thinking Time Zero
If we know who and what we are very thoroughly, we will express and manifest that in what we do. It is all very simple.
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Express Know Manifest Simple Thoroughly Very
What the universe will manifest when you are in alignment with it is a lot more interesting than what you try to manifest
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Alignment Interesting Lot Manifest Support Trying
The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.
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Actually Awakening Ego Freedom Irrelevant Nonexistent Ultimate
If you tell yourself a sad story, the body reacts to that. And if you tell yourself a self-aggrandizing story, the body feels puffed up, confident. But when you realize it’s all stories, there can be a vast waking up out of the mind, out of the dream.
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Aggrandizing Dream Mind Self Stories Story
Now don’t think that awakening is the end. Awakening is the end of seeking, the end of the seeker, but it is the beginning of a life lived from your true nature.
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Awakening End Life Seek Seeker Thinking
Feel this moment, see it with a willingness to experience it deeply, whether it be good, bad, or indifferent. Emotionally and feelingly be fully present, right here, vulnerable, with your heart. Just be present. Don’t live from your conditioned mind, live from unconditional truth.
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Bad Emotional Feel Good Heart Indifferent Mind Moment Vulnerable
In the end it’s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t.
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End Giving Ourselves Silence Simple
Thoughts are just moving through consciousness. They have no power. Nothing has reality until you reach it, grab it, and somehow impregnate it with the power of belief.
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Belief Consciousness Moving Power Reality Thought
When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.
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Emptiness Eternity Love Move Moving Still
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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