You think that enlightenment is something other than what is happening right now. This is your primary mistake.
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The willingness to not bypass illusion is very important. We come to nirvana by way of samsara. We come to see the true nature of things by seeing through the illusory nature of things.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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You think that enlightenment is something other than what is happening right now. This is your primary mistake.
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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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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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We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world.
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Freedom is a state of complete and absolute insecurity and not knowing. So, in seeking security and safety, you actually distance yourself from the freedom you want.
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Faith is a withholding of conclusion so that you allow what is to arise.
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This simply strengthens the ego. In fact, such conclusions arise from the ego itself. Pay no attention to them. Don’t go to war with yourself; simply inquire into who you are.
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Eventually, in the state of liberation, meditation will simply become your natural condition.
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Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true. It is the way Life suggests that you are not in harmony with what is.
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A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.
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Everybody is free to be as they are. Until the whole world is free to agree with you or disagree with you, until you have given the freedom to everyone to like you or not like you, to love you or hate you,
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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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This movement of grasping and aversion gives rise to a sense of a separate ‘me,’ and in turn the sense of ‘me’ strengthens itself this way.
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What would happen if you were to allow everything to be exactly as it is? If you gave up the need for control, and instead embraced the whole of your experience in each moment that arose?
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To be free of fear is to be full of Love.
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