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.
ADYASHANTII 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?
More Adyashanti Quotes
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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.
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Whenever you aren’t manipulating your experience, you’re meditating. As soon as you meditate because you think you should, you’re controlling your experience again, and you’ve squeezed all the value out of your meditation.
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When someone says, ‘I love you,’ he is telling you about himself, not you. When someone says, ‘I hate you,’ she is telling you about herself, not you. World views are self views-literally.
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Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?
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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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You think that enlightenment is something other than what is happening right now. This is your primary mistake.
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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.
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This world is not my concern; it is myself.
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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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Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being, pure consciousness. This is actually the very substance of your own self and being.
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If you give yourself this gift of not knowing and you follow it, a vast spaciousness and mysterious openness dawns within you.
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You can’t look at what’s looking. You can’t think about that which is prior to thought.
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You don’t awaken, what has eternally been awake realizes itself. That which is eternally awake is what you are.
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Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.
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In the heart of a human being, emptiness becomes love. When we touch that Source, instantly the love is present. Literally, the divine becomes human and the human becomes divine.
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Enlightenment is the natural state of consciousness, the innocent state of consciousness, that state which is uncontaminated by the movement of thought, uncontaminated by control or manipulation of mind.
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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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Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.
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Awareness isn’t something we own; awareness isn’t something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.
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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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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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Freedom and Love arise when you die into the unknown mystery of being.
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A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.
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The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.
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An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.
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Imagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.
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