When the eternal and the human meet, that’s where love is born — not through escaping our humanity or trying to disappear into transcendence, but through finding that place where they come into union.
ADYASHANTITrue meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.
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There’s a great space in which this moment takes place. There’s a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.
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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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Nothingness is an absolute infinite potential, not an empty box.
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There is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.
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You’re willing to realize that maybe everything you’ve ever thought about yourself really isn’t true.
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Question your thoughts. Question your stories. Question your assumptions. Question your opinions. Question your conclusions. Question them all into utter emptiness, stillness and joy. The keys to freedom are in your hands. Use them.
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You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.
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Usually we think that we are looking at a tree, but the tree is looking at itself through us. Without this instrument, the tree does not get to see itself. We are sensing instruments of the Divine.
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Gratitude is the appreciation of what is, of life, of existence, of anybody and anything, for just the way it is.
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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. When I have a thought about you, that’s something I’ve created. I’ve turned you into an idea.
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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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All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.
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The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?
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All you have to do is say “yes.” Don’t make some big project out of it. Don’t make some big deal out of it. Just say “yes.” You don’t even know what it means to say “yes,” but you say it anyway. You’ll never know what it means to say “yes,” but you do it anyway.
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This one question-‘What do I know for certain?’-is tremendously powerful. When you look deeply into this question, it actually destroys your world. It destroys your whole sense of self, and it’s meant to.
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