It’s wearing spiritual clothing and spiritual concepts, but it is really no different than a drunk in the gutter who doesn’t want to feel the pain anymore.
ADYASHANTISpirituality does not require that you work hard toward achieving a result in the future as much as it requires you to be fully present.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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There is a very Simple Secret to being happy. Just let go of your ‘demand’ on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering.
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When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable. It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we are not relating from the truth. It’s a beautiful pointer. It never fails.
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Stop all doing and be still. Let the fire of stillness burn everything and reveal That which is Openness.
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When you stand in your own authority, based in your own direct experience, you meet that ultimate mystery that you are. Even though it may be at first unsettling to look into your own no-thingness.
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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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Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.
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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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If we know who and what we are very thoroughly, we will express and manifest that in what we do. It is all very simple.
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Radiantly nothing. Absolutely and eternally zero. Emptiness that is awake. Emptiness that is full. Emptiness that is everything.
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Sincere and committed now, with absolute honesty and willingness to uncover and let go of any illusions that come between you and the realization of Reality.
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Most human beings have an imprinting that if they’re real, if they’re honest, somebody’s not gonna like it. And they won’t be able to control their environment if they tell the truth.
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Has it ever occurred to you that you are seeking God with His eyes?
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Freedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom.
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If you were able to give up control absolutely, totally, and completely, then you would be a spiritually free being.
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Refuse to disconnect from love and every relationship will be totally transformed; even the relationship with yourself.
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