Our illusions-the beliefs we hold on to-are the very doorways to our freedom. We simply have to enter through them without grasping or pushing away. We must not believe them, but we must not run away from them either.
ADYASHANTITruth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is discovered minute to minute or not at all.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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To 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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When we’re in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose.
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Only something as insane as human beings would ever asked themselves if ‘I’m good.’ You don’t find oak trees having existential crisis. ‘I feel so rotten about myself. I don’t produce as much acorns as the one next to me.’
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You will only lose when you resist reality; you will only struggle when you disagree with what is.
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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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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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Take one step backward into the unknown.
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Freedom and Love arise when you die into the unknown mystery of being.
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True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.
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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.
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If you filter my words through any tradition or ‘-ism’, you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is not static; it is alive. It cannot be put into concepts and be understood by the mind.
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The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.
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[And yet] it is astounding how completely we humans define ourselves by the content of our minds, feelings, and history.
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We think there’s someplace other than here to get to—that’s what drives the whole pursuit.
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Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.
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