If you think that people should be nice to one another, then by all means be nice. But when you project that belief onto the people and the world around you as if it were an objective reality, or worse still.
ADYASHANTIWhen 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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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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Inherent in the impulse to be free, is insecurity. The impulse to be free comes from outside of the mind, and because of this, it makes the mind feel very insecure.
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Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.
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Truth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is discovered minute to minute or not at all.
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Has it ever occurred to you that you are seeking God with His eyes?
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Spirituality does not require that you work hard toward achieving a result in the future as much as it requires you to be fully present.
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Sincere and committed now, with absolute honesty and willingness to uncover and let go of any illusions that come between you and the realization of Reality.
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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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It 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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We must become expressions of, not consumers of, realization.
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Meditation is a teaching which offers you the possibility of breaking free of this egoic state of consciousness and coming into a whole new realization of who and what you truly are. And all this starts with the willingness to question.
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Fear is very often a part of the spiritual path. When people sit down and meditate it’s not at all uncommon for fear to arise at some point.
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The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.
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Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness
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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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