Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.
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Adyashanti319 quotes“Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.”
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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.
AdyashantiAdyashanti Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretence. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.
AdyashantiAdyashanti 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.
AdyashantiAdyashanti In True Meditation, we’re in the body as a means to transcend it. It is paradoxical that the greatest doorway to the transcendence of form is through form itself.
AdyashantiAdyashanti That there is nothing to support, that the whole ego experience was a flimsy illusion. So you stand alone but are never, never lonely because everywhere you look, all you see is That, and you are That.
AdyashantiAdyashanti There is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.
AdyashantiAdyashanti True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.
AdyashantiAdyashanti When you realize what you are now, the issue of death will solve itself.
AdyashantiAdyashanti In the heart of a human being, emptiness becomes love. When we touch that Source, instantly the love is present. Literally, the divine becomes human and the human becomes divine.
AdyashantiAdyashanti The door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of that uncertainty and all wisdom will be yours.
AdyashantiAdyashanti Inherent in the impulse to be free, is insecurity. The impulse to be free comes from outside of the mind, and because of this, it makes the mind feel very insecure.
AdyashantiAdyashanti What if you let go of every bit of control and every urge that you have, right down to the most infinitesimal urge to control anything, anywhere, including anything that may be happening with you at this moment?
AdyashantiAdyashanti Life itself is nothing but relationship.
AdyashantiAdyashanti Fear is very often a part of the spiritual path. When people sit down and meditate it’s not at all uncommon for fear to arise at some point.
AdyashantiAdyashanti Nothing appears to be something. The human experience is a senseory organ for the divine self. Through these eyes, the divine gets to see itself in form.
AdyashantiAdyashanti 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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My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
Akio MoritaAkio Morita Stop all delays, all seeking and all striving. Put down your concepts, ideas and beliefs. For one instant be still and directly encounter the silent unknown core of your being. In that instant Freedom will embrace you and reveal the Awakening that you are.
AdyashantiAdyashanti 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.
AdyashantiAdyashanti Feel your way into what I am saying rather than thinking about it. Only a self-concept looks and longs for God. Drop your self-concept and there is only God meeting God. Enlightenment is the restoration of cosmic humor.
AdyashantiAdyashanti In the heart of a human being, emptiness becomes love. When we touch that Source, instantly the love is present. Literally, the divine becomes human and the human becomes divine.
AdyashantiAdyashanti (“Le concept de l’absolu, d’où découlent, dans le domaine moral, les lois ou normes morales, constitue, le principe d’identité, qui est la loi fondamentale de la pensée; il en découle les normes logiques qui régissent la pensée dans le domaine de la science.”)
Afrikan SpirAfrikan Spir The concept of absolute, hence (or whence) springs, in the moral field, the moral laws or norms, represent, in the field of knowledge.
Afrikan SpirAfrikan Spir I discovered I was passionate about the creative process, the product development, creating a concept around a fragrance or lipstick.
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