This one question-‘What do I know for certain?’-is tremendously powerful. When you look deeply into this question, it actually destroys your world. It destroys your whole sense of self, and it’s meant to.
ADYASHANTIThe beautiful thing about the truth of being is that it’s so unimaginably immediate.
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When you rest deeply in the Unknown without trying to escape, your experience becomes very vast. As the experience of the Unknown deepens, your boundaries begin to dissolve. You realize, not just intellectually but on a deep level, that you have no idea who or what you are.
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As long as you perceive that anyone is holding you back, you have not taken full responsibility for your own liberation. Liberation means that you stand free of making demands on others and life to make you happy.
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Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.
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Meditation is not a technique to master; it is the highest form of prayer, a naked act of love and effortless surrender into the silent abyss beyond all knowing
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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.
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The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.
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You are the doorway to the infinite.
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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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The Truth doesn’t answer anything. The Truth IS everything!
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If moonlight does not flood the empty night sky and reflect in every drop of water, on every blade of grass, then you are only looking at your own empty dream.
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The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.
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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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Love moves without an agenda. It just moves because that is its nature to move.
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The question of being is everything. Nothing could be more important or consequential-n othing where the stakes run so high.
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Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.
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