We realize–often quite suddenly–that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who we are. It doesn’t define us, it has no center.
ADYASHANTISpace and stillness is the light that illuminates the beauty of our soul’s being.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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There’s something more to life than what we see on the surface.
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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 great space in which this moment takes place. There’s a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.
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There is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.
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Your life, all of your life, is your path to awakening. By resisting or not dealing with its challenges, you stay asleep to Reality. Pay attention to what life is trying to reveal to you. Say yes to its fierce, ruthless, and loving grace.
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All delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we’re talking to ourselves and then believing what we are saying.
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The aim of my teaching is enlightenment, awakening from the dream state of separateness into the reality of the One. In short, my teaching is focused on realizing what you are.
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What you run away from owns you. You are the dog on a leash. The most you can do is to tug against the leash.
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When you let go of the egoic self what you’re getting in exchange is the whole universe.
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Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering.
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Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.
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Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.
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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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Refuse to disconnect from love and every relationship will be totally transformed; even the relationship with yourself.
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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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