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Enlightenment is a destructive process.

Adyashanti

As if it were their job to be nice to you, you put yourself at odds with what is, and suffering will surely follow.
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Follow Job Od Suffer Surely Yourself
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
Question your thoughts. Question your stories. Question your assumptions. Question your opinions. Question your conclusions. Question them all into utter emptiness, stillness and joy. The keys to freedom are in your hands. Use them.
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Freedom Hand Key Opinion Question Stories
If you were able to give up control absolutely, totally, and completely, then you would be a spiritually free being.
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Anything Anywhere Control Give Infinitesimal Right Urge
Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn’t exist?
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Asking Distant Enlightenment Goal Invite Reach Separation Stop Striving
As you gently relax into awareness, into listening, the mind’s compulsive contraction around objects will fade. Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.
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Aware Awareness Being Gently Resting Unmanifest
Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.
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Death Dress Dresses Meditation Rehearsal
Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.
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Only Silence Teacher Teaching Time
If you give yourself this gift of not knowing and you follow it, a vast spaciousness and mysterious openness dawns within you.
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Drawn Follow Gift Give Knowing Mysterious Openness Spaciousness Vast
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
Gratitude is the appreciation of what is, of life, of existence, of anybody and anything, for just the way it is.
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Anybody Appreciate Appreciation Existence Gratitude Way
True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.
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Desire True Freedom
Spirituality does not require that you work hard toward achieving a result in the future as much as it requires you to be fully present.
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Achieving Future Go Hard Honesty Letting Require Spirituality Work
This does not mean that feeling good or experiencing love and bliss is a bad thing. Given the choice, anyone would choose to feel bliss rather than sorrow.
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Bad Bliss Experiencing Good Mean Rather Simply Sorrow Thing
The proof of the depth and embodiment of your realization will be seen in your love relationship. That’s where the proof is in the pudding. If it all collapses in your relationship, you have some work to do. And people do have a lot of difficulties in their relationships.
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Depth Embodiment Love People Realization Realize Relationship Seen
It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the rabid dissatisfaction with living anything less than a fully authentic life.
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Bliss Enlightenment Grantor Happiness Pursuit Reality State Yearning

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