Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier.
ADYASHANTISilence is itself the eternal witness without form or attributes. As you rest more profoundly as the witness, all objects take on their natural functionality, and awareness becomes free of the mind’s compulsive contractions and identifications. It returns to its natural non-state of Presence.
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What the universe will manifest when you are in alignment with it is a lot more interesting than what you try to manifest
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As you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind’s compulsive control, contractions, and identifications.
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In the end it’s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t.
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The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. When you start to see the light that you really are, the light waking up in you, the radiance, you realize it has no intention to change you.
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Our yearning for truth actually comes from truth.
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As you peel it back, in the heart of nothing, that is love. You are what you are seeking. Life is a set up so that each of us can actually see in ourselves the truth for ourselves.
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We can’t have an idea of what life should look like, about how spirit should be manifesting as our very life, because all of those ideas would just be products of the past – something we learned, imagined, or desired.
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When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are.
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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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The important thing is allowing the whole world to wake up. Part of allowing the whole world to wake up is recognizing that the whole world is free,
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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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Whenever you aren’t manipulating your experience, you’re meditating. As soon as you meditate because you think you should, you’re controlling your experience again, and you’ve squeezed all the value out of your meditation.
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Meditation is not a technique to master; it is the highest form of prayer, a naked act of love and effortless surrender into the silent abyss beyond all knowing
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You are not your story. They are not your story about them. The world is not your story about the world.
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If you give yourself this gift of not knowing and you follow it, a vast spaciousness and mysterious openness dawns within you.
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