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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.

Adyashanti

Cessation of struggle is like free falling through space without a care in the world.
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Care Cessation Fall Falling Free Space Struggle World
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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Cause Come Completion Embrace Identification Up Wake
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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Aware Begin Conscious Eye First Important Suffering Thing
Whatever you want, be it. If you want connection, it’s because you are connection. Be what you want, and then it happens all around you. If you want love, be it.
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Connect Connections Love Want Wanted Whatever
Doubt is always accompanied by a pervasive cynicism that unconsciously puts a negative spin on whatever it touches.
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Accomplained Always Cynicism Doubt Negative Spin Touch Unconsciously
You can’t look at what’s looking. You can’t think about that which is prior to thought.
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Look Looking Prior Think Thinking Thought
Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering.
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Anger Angry Confused Resist Sad Sadness
We can’t have an idea of what life should look like, about how spirit should be manifesting as our very life, because all of those ideas would just be products of the past – something we learned, imagined, or desired.
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Alike Idea Life Look Mianfesting Past Reality Spirit
Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.
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Awareness Creativity Experience Expression Itself Yield
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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Experience Extraordinary Fundamental Great Infinite Intelligence Place Truth
Now don’t think that awakening is the end. Awakening is the end of seeking, the end of the seeker, but it is the beginning of a life lived from your true nature.
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Awakening End Life Seek Seeker Thinking
The silence inside of you is the sound of your knowledge collapsing. Remember, it is you who said, ‘I want to be free.’
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Collapsing Inside Knowledge Remember Silence Sound Want Wanted
A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.
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Acceptance Self Total Transcendence Yourself
Take one step backward into the unknown.
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Backward One Step Take Unknown
Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn’t exist?
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Asking Distant Enlightenment Goal Invite Reach Separation Stop Striving
The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.
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Challenge Most Seeker Spiritual Struggle Struggling

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