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True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.

Adyashanti

What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make through personal investigation.
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Able Discovery Matter Mimic People Practice Spiritual Spirituality
Refuse to disconnect from love and every relationship will be totally transformed; even the relationship with yourself.
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Disconnect Even Refuse Relationship Totally Transformed Yourself
You must want to know the truth more than you want to feel secure in order to fully awaken to the fact that you are nothing but Awakeness itself.
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Awaken Awakening Fact Feel Feeling Good More Order Secure Want
When you get out of the driver’s seat, you find that life can drive itself, that actually life has always been driving itself. When you get out of the driver’s seat, it can drive itself so much easier-it can flow in ways you never imagined.
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Actually Always Driver Driving Flow Itself Life Seat Way
Concentration is a way in which we are actually directing or guiding or controlling our experience. Meditation is letting go of control, letting go of guiding our experience in any way whatsoever. The foundation of True Meditation is that we are letting go of control.
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Concentration Control Directing Experience Guiding Meditation Way
It simply means that if this desire to feel good is stronger than the yearning to see, know, and experience Truth, then this desire will always be distorting the perception of what is Real, while corrupting one’s deepest integrity.
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Desire Experience Feel Perception Simply Stronger Yeaning
It is one thing to touch a flame and know it is hot, but quite another to jump into that flame and be consumed by it.
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Another Burning Consumed Flame Hot Jump Quite Touch
You can’t look at what’s looking. You can’t think about that which is prior to thought.
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Look Looking Prior Think Thinking Thought
In liberation, you stand alone. You stand alone because you need no supports of any kind. You need no supports because you have realized that the very notion of a separate you no longer exists.
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Ego Liberation Lonely Stand Support
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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Listening Moment Place Silence Space Thought
Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.
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Awareness Being Cease Comprise Pure Pursuit Recognize
No matter what spiritual path you’ve walked or what teachings you’ve followed, they must lead you back to no path and no teaching. A true teaching is like a blazing fire that consumes itself.
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Fire Happen Lead Path Spiritual Spirituality Teaching Walked
To pause for just a moment and realize that maybe you aren’t who you imagine yourself to be.
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Imagine Moment Pause Realize Yourself
There’s something more to life than what we see on the surface.
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Life More See Something Surface
I often describe the Absolute as Pure Infinite Potential, prior to being or becoming anything. It is forever unborn, yet gives birth to all of existence. About our ultimate nature nothing can be said; it must be revealed.
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Anything Becoming Forever Giving Infinite Potential Prior Unborn
The proof of the depth and embodiment of your realization will be seen in your love relationship. That’s where the proof is in the pudding. If it all collapses in your relationship, you have some work to do. And people do have a lot of difficulties in their relationships.
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Depth Embodiment Love People Realization Realize Relationship Seen

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