To remain unconscious of being is to remain asleep to our own reality and therefore asleep to reality at large. The choice is simple: awaken to being or sleep an endless sleep.
ADYASHANTIThere’s a fierceness about life that calls for a fierceness to not anxiously solve it but to allow it to transform you.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.
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The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. When you start to see the light that you really are, the light waking up in you, the radiance, you realize it has no intention to change you.
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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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This world is not my concern; it is myself.
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As if some dreadful fate would overcome us if we were to face the pure light of truth and lay bare our fearful clinging to illusion.
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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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To be free of fear is to be full of Love.
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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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It is good to remember that the goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.
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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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The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.
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The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.
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Grief, unresisted, is grace. It doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt anymore, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t rip your heart out….In great grief, there’s an incredible love in it. In love there’s a tinge of bitter. In true love.
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In the end it’s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t.
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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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When a group of people come together as a response to that kind of inward call, it creates a very powerful environment, where truth is held in the highest esteem and the reality of our being responds to that deepest intention.
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The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but it does change.
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Many Sages have said, “Your world is a dream. You’re living in an illusion.” They’re referring to this world of the mind and the way we believe our thoughts about reality.
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Grace is something that comes to us when we somehow find ourselves completely available, when we become openhearted and open-minded, and are willing to entertain the possibility that we may not know what we think we know.
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To see things as you see them or to see things differently—until you have given the whole world its freedom—you’ll never have your freedom.
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The willingness to not bypass illusion is very important. We come to nirvana by way of samsara. We come to see the true nature of things by seeing through the illusory nature of things.
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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.
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At first it seems as if begoing follows becoming. But look even closer and you will see that there are only flashes of lightning illuminating the empty sky.
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Life itself is nothing but relationship.
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Thoughts in your head are really no different than the sound of a bird outside. It is just that you decide that they are more or less relevant.
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True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.
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