In the end it’s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t.
ADYASHANTIThe beautiful thing about the truth of being is that it’s so unimaginably immediate.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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Embrace suffering, and you transform your relationship with what causes you to suffer, as well as your relationship with suffering itself.
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Has it ever occurred to you that you are seeking God with His eyes?
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The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.
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One doesn’t stay in a state of nirvana by hiding from difficulties. You stay in nirvana by lavishing nirvana on everyone you meet, by giving it away as fast as you receive it.
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Until we start to see these false perceptions for what they really are, consciousness will be imprisoned within the dream state.
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In liberation, you stand alone. You stand alone because you need no supports of any kind. You need no supports because you have realized that the very notion of a separate you no longer exists.
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As soon as you believe that a label you’ve put on yourself is true, you’ve limited something that is literally limitless, you’ve limited who you are into nothing but a thought.
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When someone tells you, ‘I love you,’ and then you feel, ‘Oh, I must be worthy after all,’ that’s an illusion. That’s not true. Or someone says, ‘I hate you,’ and you think, ‘Oh, God, I knew it; I’m not very worthy,’ that’s not true either.
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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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The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.
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The moment that you are willing to step outside of tomorrow, outside of needing more time, or having more time, everything becomes possible. And you may finally notice where the Buddha has always been.
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The aim of my teaching is enlightenment, awakening from the dream state of separateness into the reality of the One. In short, my teaching is focused on realizing what you are.
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When we’re in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose.
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Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.
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To pause for just a moment and realize that maybe you aren’t who you imagine yourself to be.
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