So the biggest act of compassion starts within. And when the self is no longer seen as a problem, this is called “the peace that passes all understanding.
ADYASHANTIWhat am I, really? The beautiful thing…is nobody can tell us what we are. Nobody can really tell us. Not in a way that’s going to be satisfactory to us. Our true nature is self-authenticating. When we bump into our true nature,
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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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There’s a fierceness about life that calls for a fierceness to not anxiously solve it but to allow it to transform you.
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To find out that you are empty of emptiness is to die into an aware mystery, which is the source of all existence.
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My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.
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You’ll have more love than you know what to do with. Whatever you are inside, you receive a thousandfold on the outside.
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Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.
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The door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of that uncertainty and all wisdom will be yours.
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What is really important you can’t understand with your mind.
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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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If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.
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Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.
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The teaching must not only consume you, but consume itself as well. All must be burned to ash, and then the ash must be burned. Then, and only then, is the Ultimate realized.
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There’s something more to life than what we see on the surface.
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The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?
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All you have to do is say “yes.” Don’t make some big project out of it. Don’t make some big deal out of it. Just say “yes.” You don’t even know what it means to say “yes,” but you say it anyway. You’ll never know what it means to say “yes,” but you do it anyway.
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