If you think that people should be nice to one another, then by all means be nice. But when you project that belief onto the people and the world around you as if it were an objective reality, or worse still.
ADYASHANTIThe door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of that uncertainty and all wisdom will be yours.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.
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The Truth doesn’t answer anything. The Truth IS everything!
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To remain unconscious of being is to remain asleep to our own reality and therefore asleep to reality at large. The choice is simple: awaken to being or sleep an endless sleep.
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When you realize what you are now, the issue of death will solve itself.
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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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One doesn’t stay in a state of nirvana by hiding from difficulties. You stay in nirvana by lavishing nirvana on everyone you meet, by giving it away as fast as you receive 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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Retreat is a response to the call of the heart-that call which beckons us toward reality, to the truth of our being, to that which is truly sane, really real and liberating …
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Spirituality does not require that you work hard toward achieving a result in the future as much as it requires you to be fully present.
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Truth is not over there, wherever over there is. Truth is neither housed in religious rituals nor secret doctrines, nor in a guru’s touch or beatific smile, nor in exotic locations or ancient temples.
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Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering.
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A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom.
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You must choose between your attachments and happiness.
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You do it anyway. Why? Because you no longer want to suffer. Because you’re willing to be disturbed. You’re willing to be amazed. You’re willing to be surprised.
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One Zen master said, The whole universe is my true personality. This is a very wonderful saying… If you want to see what you truly are, open the window, and everything you see is in fact the expression of your inner reality. Can you embrace all of it?
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