The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.
ADYASHANTIThe biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.
ADYASHANTIWhat the universe will manifest when you are in alignment with it is a lot more interesting than what you try to manifest
ADYASHANTIRelaxing into not knowing is almost like surrendering into a big, comfortable chair; you just fall into a field of possibility.
ADYASHANTIBe a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don’t expect it to be easy or even noticed.
ADYASHANTIWhen emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.
ADYASHANTIWhatever you resist, persists.
ADYASHANTIThe important thing is allowing the whole world to wake up. Part of allowing the whole world to wake up is recognizing that the whole world is free,
ADYASHANTIWhen the eternal and the human meet, that’s where love is born — not through escaping our humanity or trying to disappear into transcendence, but through finding that place where they come into union.
ADYASHANTIThis 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.
ADYASHANTITrue love has nothing to do with liking someone, agreeing with him or her or being compatible. It is a love of unity, a love of seeing God wearing all the masks, and recognising itself in them all..
ADYASHANTIFreedom is a state of complete and absolute insecurity and not knowing. So, in seeking security and safety, you actually distance yourself from the freedom you want.
ADYASHANTIThe most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?
ADYASHANTIImagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.
ADYASHANTIAn ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.
ADYASHANTINothing 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.
ADYASHANTIIt is in the absolute surrender of all conditions and requirements that Liberation is discovered to be who and what you are. Then the love and wisdom that flows out of you has a liberating effect on others.
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