Have you noticed, with whatever quality of love you have experienced, that when true love arises, it opens up both your mind and emotions? It’s an openness to whatever is happening.
ADYASHANTIThere’s a great space in which this moment takes place. There’s a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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The teaching must not only consume you, but consume itself as well. All must be burned to ash, and then the ash must be burned. Then, and only then, is the Ultimate realized.
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My teacher used to say ‘all love is bittersweet’. All things experienced fully, reveal their opposite.
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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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Awareness isn’t something we own; awareness isn’t something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.
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Meditation is a teaching which offers you the possibility of breaking free of this egoic state of consciousness and coming into a whole new realization of who and what you truly are. And all this starts with the willingness to question.
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When we really start to take a look at who we think we are… we start to see that while we may have various thoughts, beliefs, and identities, they do not individually or collectively tell us who we are.
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The question of being is everything. Nothing could be more important or consequential-n othing where the stakes run so high.
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Space and stillness is the light that illuminates the beauty of our soul’s being.
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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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The world’s problems are, by and large, human problems-the unavoidable consequence of egoic sleepwalking. If we care to look, all the signs are present to suggest that we are not only sleepwalking, but at times borderline insane as well.
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Love causes us to be deeply connected in an unspoken way. It happens when we’re really available, really open.
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Thoughts are just moving through consciousness. They have no power. Nothing has reality until you reach it, grab it, and somehow impregnate it with the power of belief.
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The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.
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That there is nothing to support, that the whole ego experience was a flimsy illusion. So you stand alone but are never, never lonely because everywhere you look, all you see is That, and you are That.
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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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