What if you let go of every bit of control and every urge that you have, right down to the most infinitesimal urge to control anything, anywhere, including anything that may be happening with you at this moment?
ADYASHANTIThoughts in your head are really no different than the sound of a bird outside. It is just that you decide that they are more or less relevant.
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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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Grace is something that comes to us when we somehow find ourselves completely available, when we become openhearted and open-minded, and are willing to entertain the possibility that we may not know what we think we know.
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Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control.
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There’s a fierceness about life that calls for a fierceness to not anxiously solve it but to allow it to transform you.
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If you have any image of what the Truth is, slay it immediately because that’s not it.
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The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?
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If we know who and what we are very thoroughly, we will express and manifest that in what we do. It is all very simple.
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If you tell yourself a sad story, the body reacts to that. And if you tell yourself a self-aggrandizing story, the body feels puffed up, confident. But when you realize it’s all stories, there can be a vast waking up out of the mind, out of the dream.
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Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.
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The most difficult thing for spiritual seekers to do is to stop struggling, striving, seeking, and searching. Why? Because in the absence of struggle you don’t know who you are; you lose your boundaries.
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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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If moonlight does not flood the empty night sky and reflect in every drop of water, on every blade of grass, then you are only looking at your own empty dream.
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This moment in which you experience stillness is every moment. Don’t let the mind seduce you into the past or future. Stay in the moment, and dare to consider that you can be free now.
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Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.
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To accept the degree of surrender needed to literally let go of all experience and all self-reference. Even in great revelations, there is almost always something that wants to claim, “I am this.”
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