Imagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.
ADYASHANTIMy speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world.
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When you realize what you are now, the issue of death will solve itself.
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The middle way is an invitation to leap beyond nirvana and samsara and to realize the unborn Buddha mind right in the middle of everywhere.
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Enlightenment is a destructive process.
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In a certain sense, if I have an idea about you that I believe, I’ve degraded you. I’ve made you into something very small. This is the way of human beings, this is what we do to each other.
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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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A meditative mind is at ease because it’s not trying to acquire anything.
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Refuse to disconnect from love and every relationship will be totally transformed; even the relationship with yourself.
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When you inquire ‘Who am I?’ if you are honest, you’ll notice that it takes you right back to silence instantly. The brain doesn’t have an answer, so all of a sudden there is silence.
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When you let go of the egoic self what you’re getting in exchange is the whole universe.
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[And yet] it is astounding how completely we humans define ourselves by the content of our minds, feelings, and history.
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An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.
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To awaken to the absolute view is profound and transformative, but to awaken from all fixed points of view is the birth of true non-duality. If emptiness cannot dance, it is not true emptiness.
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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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No matter what identity we cling to, it takes great courage to step out of the old masks we wear and the old scripts that we live by, and open ourselves to the mysterious inner core of our being.
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