We think there’s someplace other than here to get to—that’s what drives the whole pursuit.
ADYASHANTIIn the same vein, my teachings are not meant to acquire followers or imitators, but to awaken beings to eternal truth and thus to awakened life and living.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.
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Once again, we find ourselves back in the unknown – not in the idea of the unknown, but in the lived reality of it. It’s the mind humbled, on its knees, with bare feet and free of the known.
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Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.
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The joke of it all is that you are looking from your true nature right now without knowing it. If you would stop being fascinated with the contents of your mind, you would experience what I am saying.
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Thoughts are just moving through consciousness. They have no power. Nothing has reality until you reach it, grab it, and somehow impregnate it with the power of belief.
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Your life, all of your life, is your path to awakening. By resisting or not dealing with its challenges, you stay asleep to Reality. Pay attention to what life is trying to reveal to you. Say yes to its fierce, ruthless, and loving grace.
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We must become expressions of, not consumers of, realization.
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Freedom and Love arise when you die into the unknown mystery of being.
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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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All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.
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Thoughts in your head are really no different than the sound of a bird outside. It is just that you decide that they are more or less relevant.
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The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.
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True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.
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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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So most of us human beings have a very deep underlying conditioning that says that just to be who we are is not OK…….
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