You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.
ADYASHANTITrue love has nothing to do with liking someone, agreeing with him or her or being compatible. It is a love of unity, a love of seeing God wearing all the masks, and recognising itself in them all..
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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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The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda.
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When the eternal and the human meet, that’s where love is born — not through escaping our humanity or trying to disappear into transcendence, but through finding that place where they come into union.
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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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When someone tells you, ‘I love you,’ and then you feel, ‘Oh, I must be worthy after all,’ that’s an illusion. That’s not true. Or someone says, ‘I hate you,’ and you think, ‘Oh, God, I knew it; I’m not very worthy,’ that’s not true either.
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They know deep down that certain things in their lives are working or aren’t working, that certain parts of their lives are functional and others are dysfunctional. But sometimes, as human beings, we don’t want to know what’s not convenient. So we pretend not to know.
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This awake silence is available to anyone in this moment. All you have to do is stop using your mind to look for it. It doesn’t know where to find it.
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Be a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don’t expect it to be easy or even noticed.
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Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretence. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.
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Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.
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You’ll have more love than you know what to do with. Whatever you are inside, you receive a thousandfold on the outside.
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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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The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.
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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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As if it were their job to be nice to you, you put yourself at odds with what is, and suffering will surely follow.
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