Grace is something that comes to us when we somehow find ourselves completely available, when we become openhearted and open-minded, and are willing to entertain the possibility that we may not know what we think we know.
ADYASHANTIIf you tell yourself a sad story, the body reacts to that. And if you tell yourself a self-aggrandizing story, the body feels puffed up, confident. But when you realize it’s all stories, there can be a vast waking up out of the mind, out of the dream.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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There is, quite literally, nothing to understand.
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Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier.
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There is a very Simple Secret to being happy. Just let go of your ‘demand’ on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering.
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Life sustains itself. Let go of the ego and life takes care of itself through you.
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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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The body is a sensing instrument of consciousness. Without the body and mind, the trees could not see themselves.
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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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Be a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don’t expect it to be easy or even noticed.
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An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.
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All is always well even when it seems unbelievably unwell.
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When a group of people come together as a response to that kind of inward call, it creates a very powerful environment, where truth is held in the highest esteem and the reality of our being responds to that deepest intention.
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Relaxing into not knowing is almost like surrendering into a big, comfortable chair; you just fall into a field of possibility.
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Awakening to the truth is a deep realization of what you are as an experience. What is it that is listening? What is it that is feeling? Feel it. Sense it. Welcome it.
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Life becomes almost magical. The illusion of the “me” is no longer in the way. Life begins to flow, and you never know where it will take you.
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Everybody is free to be as they are. Until the whole world is free to agree with you or disagree with you, until you have given the freedom to everyone to like you or not like you, to love you or hate you,
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Until we start to see these false perceptions for what they really are, consciousness will be imprisoned within the dream state.
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The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.
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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?
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Whenever you aren’t manipulating your experience, you’re meditating. As soon as you meditate because you think you should, you’re controlling your experience again, and you’ve squeezed all the value out of your meditation.
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There is profound responsibility in being Love… more than the mind could imagine or hold up under. If most human beings truly realized the impact that they have on the whole, they’d be crushed by the realization of it.
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Freedom and Love arise when you die into the unknown mystery of being.
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Cessation of struggle is like free falling through space without a care in the world.
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The question of being is everything. Nothing could be more important or consequential-n othing where the stakes run so high.
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Many people think that it is the function of a spiritual teaching to provide answers to life’s biggest questions, but actually, the opposite is true. The primary task of any good spiritual teaching is not to answer your questions, but to question your answers.
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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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Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.
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