[And yet] it is astounding how completely we humans define ourselves by the content of our minds, feelings, and history.
ADYASHANTIAs you gently relax into awareness, into listening, the mind’s compulsive contraction around objects will fade. Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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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.
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Freedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom.
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You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.
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The mind may accept or deny that you are awareness, but either way it can’t really understand. It cannot comprehend. Thought cannot comprehend what is beyond thought.
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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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Enlightenment is a destructive process.
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A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom.
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Truth is quite literally the only thing that does exist. It is not hidden but in plain view, not lacking but abundantly present.
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When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are.
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Take the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you.
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The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda.
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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 see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are. When I have a thought about you, that’s something I’ve created. I’ve turned you into an idea.
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Let go of all ideas and images in your mind, they come and go and aren’t even generated by you. So why pay so much attention to your imagination when reality is for the realizing right now?
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Eventually, in the state of liberation, meditation will simply become your natural condition.
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An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.
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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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To awaken to the absolute view is profound and transformative, but to awaken from all fixed points of view is the birth of true non-duality. If emptiness cannot dance, it is not true emptiness.
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If we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn’t that what silence is? It’s a listening, a deep wordless listening.
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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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If you tell yourself a sad story, the body reacts to that. And if you tell yourself a self-aggrandizing story, the body feels puffed up, confident. But when you realize it’s all stories, there can be a vast waking up out of the mind, out of the dream.
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Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully.
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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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At any moment, we are either giving humanity the gift of our clarity or our confusion. And that clarity or confusion is affecting the humanity around us, the world around us. It is manifesting. It is taking form.
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The body is a sensing instrument of consciousness. Without the body and mind, the trees could not see themselves.
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Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.
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