No matter what spiritual path you’ve walked or what teachings you’ve followed, they must lead you back to no path and no teaching. A true teaching is like a blazing fire that consumes itself.
ADYASHANTILove is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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If you give yourself this gift of not knowing and you follow it, a vast spaciousness and mysterious openness dawns within you.
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True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.
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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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If you resist confusion,you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them.
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There is nothing wrong with thought and it can be used whenever necessary. But in every moment you can choose to follow your thoughts or you can recognize that which is not thinking. Don’t try to stop thinking, let it happen. Just recognize that which is not thinking.
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What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make through personal investigation.
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When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what’s left? A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are.
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The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.
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It is in the absolute surrender of all conditions and requirements that Liberation is discovered to be who and what you are. Then the love and wisdom that flows out of you has a liberating effect on others.
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The door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of that uncertainty and all wisdom will be yours.
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Question your thoughts. Question your stories. Question your assumptions. Question your opinions. Question your conclusions. Question them all into utter emptiness, stillness and joy. The keys to freedom are in your hands. Use them.
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The truth is you can’t try to let go. Trying is the opposite of letting go. To let go is to relinquish trying. To let go is much more like to let be.
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The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.
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We think there’s someplace other than here to get to—that’s what drives the whole pursuit.
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Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being, pure consciousness. This is actually the very substance of your own self and being.
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