As you peel it back, in the heart of nothing, that is love. You are what you are seeking. Life is a set up so that each of us can actually see in ourselves the truth for ourselves.
ADYASHANTIInherent 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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Trying to maintain a pleasant state and avoid an unpleasant state is actually the cause of sorrow. When you stop resisting, you see that what seems frightening is actually the absolute beauty of reality.
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We need to see each moment of apparent bondage as an invitation to freedom. Then it becomes an act of love, an act of compassion, to stop running away.
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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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Meditation is not a technique to master; it is the highest form of prayer, a naked act of love and effortless surrender into the silent abyss beyond all knowing
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True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.
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Take the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you.
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When you stand in your own authority, based in your own direct experience, you meet that ultimate mystery that you are. Even though it may be at first unsettling to look into your own no-thingness.
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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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You are not your story. They are not your story about them. The world is not your story about the world.
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It is in the absolute surrender of all conditions and requirements that Liberation is discovered to be who and what you are. Then the love and wisdom that flows out of you has a liberating effect on others.
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What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.
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No matter what identity we cling to, it takes great courage to step out of the old masks we wear and the old scripts that we live by, and open ourselves to the mysterious inner core of our being.
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To see things as you see them or to see things differently—until you have given the whole world its freedom—you’ll never have your freedom.
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As if it were their job to be nice to you, you put yourself at odds with what is, and suffering will surely follow.
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Nothingness is an absolute infinite potential, not an empty box.
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