If you have any image of what the Truth is, slay it immediately because that’s not it.
ADYASHANTIFreedom is a state of complete and absolute insecurity and not knowing. So, in seeking security and safety, you actually distance yourself from the freedom you want.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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It has no intention to harmonize. It has no agenda. It just happens. The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda. Everything else will have an agenda.
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Go ahead, climb up onto the velvet top of the highest stakes table. Place yourself as the bet. Look God in the eyes and finally, for once in your life, lose.
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We don’t come to nirvana by avoiding samsara. We don’t come to clarity by avoiding confusion.
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Deep down we all suspect that something is very wrong with the way we perceive life but we try very, very hard not to notice it. And the way we remain blind to our frightful condition is through an obsessive and pathological denial of being.
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At each moment we are expressing what we know ourselves to be. If we know ourselves very little we will express and manifest that unconsciousness of our true nature.
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The mind wants to land, to fixate, to hold a concept, but the only way you can be really free is by not fixating. That’s part of true maturity, and it’s one of the hardest things for spiritual people who have had true and powerful revelations to go through.
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How do I integrate spirituality into my everyday life? Throw out the concept of “spiritual life” and “everyday life.” There is only life, undivided and whole.
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Whatever you can become will ultimately be destroyed. Only what you already are can’t be taken away.
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Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.
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A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.
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All we really want in the end is to be connected once again with the Truth of our being, to realize what it is that wears this mask of self.
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No matter what identity we cling to, it takes great courage to step out of the old masks we wear and the old scripts that we live by, and open ourselves to the mysterious inner core of our being.
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Most human beings spend their lives battling with opposing inner forces: what they think they should do versus what they are doing; how they feel about themselves versus how they are; whether they think they’re right and worthy or wrong and unworthy.
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The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.
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As if some dreadful fate would overcome us if we were to face the pure light of truth and lay bare our fearful clinging to illusion.
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