The separate self is just the conglomeration of these opposing forces. When the self drops away, inner division drops away with it.
ADYASHANTIFeel this moment, see it with a willingness to experience it deeply, whether it be good, bad, or indifferent. Emotionally and feelingly be fully present, right here, vulnerable, with your heart. Just be present. Don’t live from your conditioned mind, live from unconditional truth.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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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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Now don’t think that awakening is the end. Awakening is the end of seeking, the end of the seeker, but it is the beginning of a life lived from your true nature.
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If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.
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You’ll have more love than you know what to do with. Whatever you are inside, you receive a thousandfold on the outside.
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What you run away from owns you. You are the dog on a leash. The most you can do is to tug against the leash.
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[And yet] it is astounding how completely we humans define ourselves by the content of our minds, feelings, and history.
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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.
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The middle way is an invitation to leap beyond nirvana and samsara and to realize the unborn Buddha mind right in the middle of everywhere.
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We must leave the entire collection of conditioned thought behind and let ourselves be led by the inner thread of silence into the unknown, beyond where all paths end, to that place where we go innocently or not at all, not once but continually.
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What is really important you can’t understand with your mind.
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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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The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.
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When we’re in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose.
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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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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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