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In order to be truly free, you must desire to know the truth more than you want to feel good. Because, if feeling good is your goal, then as soon as you feel better you will lose interest in what is true.

Adyashanti

The perspective of Love doesn’t leave anybody out. Until your vision and compassion is big enough to include those who oppose you, you are simply contributing to the continuation of destructiveness . The end of separation is the salvation for all.
ADYASHANTI

Anybody Compassion Enough Include Leave Perspective Until Vision
What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.
ADYASHANTI

Appreciate Appreciation Attention Freedom Holding Living Meditation
The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.
ADYASHANTI

Actually Awakening Ego Freedom Irrelevant Nonexistent Ultimate
You are the doorway to the infinite.
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Doorway Infinite Set
When someone tells you, ‘I love you,’ and then you feel, ‘Oh, I must be worthy after all,’ that’s an illusion. That’s not true. Or someone says, ‘I hate you,’ and you think, ‘Oh, God, I knew it; I’m not very worthy,’ that’s not true either.
ADYASHANTI

Feel Hate Illusion Lov Someone Tell Uplifting You
If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.
ADYASHANTI

Attachment Consciousness Elsewhere Listen Sit Something Want
Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn’t exist?
ADYASHANTI

Asking Distant Enlightenment Goal Invite Reach Separation Stop Striving
If you resist confusion,you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them.
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Actually Anger Certain Confusion Resist Think Whatever
Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering.
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Anger Angry Confused Resist Sad Sadness
All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.
ADYASHANTI

Meditation Necessity Practice Seeking Silence Yoga
The most difficult thing for spiritual seekers to do is to stop struggling, striving, seeking, and searching. Why? Because in the absence of struggle you don’t know who you are; you lose your boundaries.
ADYASHANTI

Difficult Dream Life Searching Seeker Spiritual Struggling
This world is not my concern; it is myself.
ADYASHANTI

Concern Myself World
It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the rabid dissatisfaction with living anything less than a fully authentic life.
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Bliss Enlightenment Grantor Happiness Pursuit Reality State Yearning
The silence inside of you is the sound of your knowledge collapsing. Remember, it is you who said, ‘I want to be free.’
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Collapsing Inside Knowledge Remember Silence Sound Want Wanted
Now don’t think that awakening is the end. Awakening is the end of seeking, the end of the seeker, but it is the beginning of a life lived from your true nature.
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Awakening End Life Seek Seeker Thinking
You do it anyway. Why? Because you no longer want to suffer. Because you’re willing to be disturbed. You’re willing to be amazed. You’re willing to be surprised.
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Anyway Disturbed Longer Suffer Surprised Willing

In order to be truly free, you must desire to know the truth more than you want to feel good. Because, if feeling good is your goal, then as soon as you feel better you will lose interest in what is true.

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In order to be truly free, you must desire to know the truth more than you want to feel good. Because, if feeling good is your goal, then as soon as you feel better you will lose interest in what is true.

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