As if some dreadful fate would overcome us if we were to face the pure light of truth and lay bare our fearful clinging to illusion.
ADYASHANTITrue intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.
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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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True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.
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We must become expressions of, not consumers of, realization.
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Serving the Truth becomes our life instead of just an isolated event. It takes the abstractness out of spirituality. That’s the opportunity of real spirituality: to be in service to the silence of the heart.
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Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.
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The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. When you start to see the light that you really are, the light waking up in you, the radiance, you realize it has no intention to change you.
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In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself. Primordial awareness is the source in which all objects arise and subside.
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The you who is chasing enlightenment will never become enlightened. Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach,
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If you give yourself this gift of not knowing and you follow it, a vast spaciousness and mysterious openness dawns within you.
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The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.
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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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Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier.
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The important thing is allowing the whole world to wake up. Part of allowing the whole world to wake up is recognizing that the whole world is free,
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Many people think that it is the function of a spiritual teaching to provide answers to life’s biggest questions, but actually, the opposite is true. The primary task of any good spiritual teaching is not to answer your questions, but to question your answers.
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Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.
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