It’s wearing spiritual clothing and spiritual concepts, but it is really no different than a drunk in the gutter who doesn’t want to feel the pain anymore.
ADYASHANTIWe think there’s someplace other than here to get to—that’s what drives the whole pursuit.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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Love causes us to be deeply connected in an unspoken way. It happens when we’re really available, really open.
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It is one thing to touch a flame and know it is hot, but quite another to jump into that flame and be consumed by it.
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The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being.
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Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness
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Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretence. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.
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Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.
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Self-inquiry is a spiritually induced form of wintertime. It’s not about looking for a right answer so much as stripping away and letting you see what is not necessary, what you can do without, what you are without your leaves.
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The beautiful thing about the truth of being is that it’s so unimaginably immediate.
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Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.
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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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All we really want in the end is to be connected once again with the Truth of our being, to realize what it is that wears this mask of self.
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When you abide and accept everything completely and fully, you automatically go beyond.
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The you who is chasing enlightenment will never become enlightened. Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach,
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You think that enlightenment is something other than what is happening right now. This is your primary mistake.
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In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself. Primordial awareness is the source in which all objects arise and subside.
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