As you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind’s compulsive control, contractions, and identifications.
ADYASHANTITrue intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.
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The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.
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Eventually, in the state of liberation, meditation will simply become your natural condition.
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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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Stop all doing and be still. Let the fire of stillness burn everything and reveal That which is Openness.
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The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.
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Faith is a withholding of conclusion so that you allow what is to arise.
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Our own intuition of what we’re called to is reality speaking to us individually and perfectly. We have to listen to how the Infinite talks to us and leads us. Reality, Life the Infinite, God, has a way of leading us in just the perfect way, if we will only just listen to it.
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This simply strengthens the ego. In fact, such conclusions arise from the ego itself. Pay no attention to them. Don’t go to war with yourself; simply inquire into who you are.
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Many Sages have said, “Your world is a dream. You’re living in an illusion.” They’re referring to this world of the mind and the way we believe our thoughts about reality.
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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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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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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.
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Now don’t think that awakening is the end. Awakening is the end of seeking, the end of the seeker, but it is the beginning of a life lived from your true nature.
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Freedom and Love arise when you die into the unknown mystery of being.
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If you filter my words through any tradition or ‘-ism’, you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is not static; it is alive. It cannot be put into concepts and be understood by the mind.
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