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.
ADYASHANTIOur own intuition of what we’re called to is reality speaking to us individually and perfectly. We have to listen to how the Infinite talks to us and leads us. Reality, Life the Infinite, God, has a way of leading us in just the perfect way, if we will only just listen to it.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?
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You come to see that everything you think you know about yourself, everything you think you know about the world, is based on assumptions, beliefs, and opinions-things that you believe because you were taught or told they were true.
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Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier.
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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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When you abide and accept everything completely and fully, you automatically go beyond.
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Our yearning for truth actually comes from truth.
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To pause for just a moment and realize that maybe you aren’t who you imagine yourself to be.
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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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The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda.
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The willingness to not bypass illusion is very important. We come to nirvana by way of samsara. We come to see the true nature of things by seeing through the illusory nature of things.
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The Buddha’s insight into the middle way is not simply about a balance between extremes. This conventional understanding misses the deeper revelation of the middle way as being the very nature of unexcelled enlightenment.
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How do I integrate spirituality into my everyday life? Throw out the concept of “spiritual life” and “everyday life.” There is only life, undivided and whole.
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Human beings have a drive for security and safety, which is often what fuels the spiritual search. This very drive for security and safety is what causes so much misery and confusion.
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We realize–often quite suddenly–that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who we are. It doesn’t define us, it has no center.
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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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