So the biggest act of compassion starts within. And when the self is no longer seen as a problem, this is called “the peace that passes all understanding.
ADYASHANTIUntil we start to see these false perceptions for what they really are, consciousness will be imprisoned within the dream state.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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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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What am I, really? The beautiful thing…is nobody can tell us what we are. Nobody can really tell us. Not in a way that’s going to be satisfactory to us. Our true nature is self-authenticating. When we bump into our true nature,
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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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Meditation is not a technique to master; it is the highest form of prayer, a naked act of love and effortless surrender into the silent abyss beyond all knowing
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As you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind’s compulsive control, contractions, and identifications.
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As soon as the mind pulls out an agenda and decides what needs to change, that’s unreality. Life doesn’t need to decide who’s right and who’s wrong. Life doesn’t need to know the “right” way to go because it’s going there anyway.
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A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom.
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Love 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.
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You don’t awaken, what has eternally been awake realizes itself. That which is eternally awake is what you are.
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In silence a question has great power, because in silence a question will always lead you deeper into your experience. If there is no grounding in silence, a spiritual question is going to lead you into your mind.
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The perspective of Love doesn’t leave anybody out. Until your vision and compassion is big enough to include those who oppose you, you are simply contributing to the continuation of destructiveness . The end of separation is the salvation for all.
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Whatever you resist, persists.
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You must choose between your attachments and happiness.
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Many spiritual people are involved in a radical denial of what is happening. They want to transcend it, get rid of it, get out of it, get away from it. There’s nothing wrong with that feeling, but the approach doesn’t work because it’s escapism in spiritual clothing.
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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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