This does not mean that feeling good or experiencing love and bliss is a bad thing. Given the choice, anyone would choose to feel bliss rather than sorrow.
ADYASHANTIThe ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.
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When you abide and accept everything completely and fully, you automatically go beyond.
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Human beings have a drive for security and safety, which is often what fuels the spiritual search. This very drive for security and safety is what causes so much misery and confusion.
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When we really start to take a look at who we think we are, we become very grace prone.
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Space and stillness is the light that illuminates the beauty of our soul’s being.
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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.
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Thoughts are just moving through consciousness. They have no power. Nothing has reality until you reach it, grab it, and somehow impregnate it with the power of belief.
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Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.
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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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If we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn’t that what silence is? It’s a listening, a deep wordless listening.
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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.
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When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.
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Take the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you.
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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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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.
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There is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.
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