As I often tell my students, the person you’ll have the hardest time opening to and truly loving without reserve is yourself. Once you can do that, you can love the whole universe unconditionally.
ADYASHANTITrue meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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All we really want in the end is to be connected once again with the Truth of our being, to realize what it is that wears this mask of self.
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When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable. It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we are not relating from the truth. It’s a beautiful pointer. It never fails.
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You can’t look at what’s looking. You can’t think about that which is prior to thought.
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Whatever you resist, persists.
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The biggest embrace of love you’ll ever make is to embrace yourself completely. Then you’ll realize you’ve just embraced the whole universe, and everything and everybody in it.
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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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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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Faith is a withholding of conclusion so that you allow what is to arise.
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When you realize what you are now, the issue of death will solve itself.
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Your life, all of your life, is your path to awakening. By resisting or not dealing with its challenges, you stay asleep to Reality. Pay attention to what life is trying to reveal to you. Say yes to its fierce, ruthless, and loving grace.
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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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Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control. This is meditation. Anything else is actually a form of concentration. Meditation and concentration are two different things. Concentration is a discipline.
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In a certain sense, if I have an idea about you that I believe, I’ve degraded you. I’ve made you into something very small. This is the way of human beings, this is what we do to each other.
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Space and stillness is the light that illuminates the beauty of our soul’s being.
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Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.
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