Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier.
ADYASHANTITo remain unconscious of being is to remain asleep to our own reality and therefore asleep to reality at large. The choice is simple: awaken to being or sleep an endless sleep.
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My experience of fundamental Truth is that it’s a place of extraordinary intelligence. It’s a place from which great intelligence arises. I call it a place of absolute infinite potential.
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The Truth doesn’t answer anything. The Truth IS everything!
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Until we start to see these false perceptions for what they really are, consciousness will be imprisoned within the dream state.
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An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.
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A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.
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Doubt is always accompanied by a pervasive cynicism that unconsciously puts a negative spin on whatever it touches.
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If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.
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In a certain sense, if I have an idea about you that I believe, I’ve degraded you. I’ve made you into something very small. This is the way of human beings, this is what we do to each other.
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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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Meditation is not a technique to master; it is the highest form of prayer, a naked act of love and effortless surrender into the silent abyss beyond all knowing
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Completion comes when we not just wake up from all form, from all identification, but when love causes us to re-embrace it all.
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When we’re in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose.
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When you begin to become conscious, more aware, when your eyes begin to open, the first thing you see is how deluded you are and how much you’re holding onto that which makes you suffer. This is, in many ways, the most important step: Are you willing to be aware?
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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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A few minutes ago, you knew who you were-you had a history and a personality-but from this place of not knowing, you question all of that.
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