Grief, unresisted, is grace. It doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt anymore, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t rip your heart out….In great grief, there’s an incredible love in it. In love there’s a tinge of bitter. In true love.
ADYASHANTIThere’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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Completion comes when we not just wake up from all form, from all identification, but when love causes us to re-embrace it all.
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This world is not my concern; it is myself.
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All you have to do is say “yes.” Don’t make some big project out of it. Don’t make some big deal out of it. Just say “yes.” You don’t even know what it means to say “yes,” but you say it anyway. You’ll never know what it means to say “yes,” but you do it anyway.
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Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control.
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The Truth doesn’t answer anything. The Truth IS everything!
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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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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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You’re willing to realize that maybe everything you’ve ever thought about yourself really isn’t true.
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Eventually, in the state of liberation, meditation will simply become your natural condition.
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The silence inside of you is the sound of your knowledge collapsing. Remember, it is you who said, ‘I want to be free.’
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You can’t lose what you serve. That’s the secret. What you serve, you can’t lose. What you don’t serve and what you try to hold onto, you can’t hold onto. It’s always slipping out of your fingers.
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The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being.
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Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.
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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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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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