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Serving the Truth becomes our life instead of just an isolated event. It takes the abstractness out of spirituality. That’s the opportunity of real spirituality: to be in service to the silence of the heart.

Adyashanti

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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Aggrandizing Dream Mind Self Stories Story
Silence and stillness are not states and therefore cannot be produced or created. Silence is the non-state in which all states arise and subside. Silence, stillness and awareness are not states and can never be perceived in their totality as objects.
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Created Meditation Mind Produced Silence Stillness
Stop all doing and be still. Let the fire of stillness burn everything and reveal That which is Openness.
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Doing Everything Fire Openness Reveal Still Stop
The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.
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Being Heart Life Lover True
Right now you can allow yourself to experience a very simple sense of not knowing – not knowing what or who you are, not knowing what this moment is, not knowing anything.
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Experience Fall Knowing Right Sense Simple
To see things as you see them or to see things differently—until you have given the whole world its freedom—you’ll never have your freedom.
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Differently Freedom Given Think Whole
To pause for just a moment and realize that maybe you aren’t who you imagine yourself to be.
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Imagine Moment Pause Realize Yourself
My teacher used to say ‘all love is bittersweet’. All things experienced fully, reveal their opposite.
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Bittersweet Experienced Opposite Reveal Teacher Used
If you filter my words through any tradition or ‘-ism’, you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is not static; it is alive. It cannot be put into concepts and be understood by the mind.
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Filter Liberating Lying Mind Missing Saying Tradition Truth
A meditative mind is at ease because it’s not trying to acquire anything.
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Anything Aquire Ease Meditative Mind Trying
Many spiritual people are involved in a radical denial of what is happening. They want to transcend it, get rid of it, get out of it, get away from it. There’s nothing wrong with that feeling, but the approach doesn’t work because it’s escapism in spiritual clothing.
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Happening Involved Pain People Radical Spiritual
The body is a sensing instrument of consciousness. Without the body and mind, the trees could not see themselves.
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Body Consciousness Instrument Mind Sensing Think Thinking Tree
Let go of all ideas and images in your mind, they come and go and aren’t even generated by you. So why pay so much attention to your imagination when reality is for the realizing right now?
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Emptiness Generated Idea Let Go Pay Reality
When we’re in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose.
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Bring Feel Life Moment Purpose True
Every time you claim, “I am this”, you just claimed another sense perception, thought, emotion, or feeling.
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Claim Claimed Emotion Feeling Perception Sense Time
Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.
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Awareness Being Cease Comprise Pure Pursuit Recognize

Serving the Truth becomes our life instead of just an isolated event. It takes the abstractness out of spirituality. That’s the opportunity of real spirituality: to be in service to the silence of the heart.

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Serving the Truth becomes our life instead of just an isolated event. It takes the abstractness out of spirituality. That’s the opportunity of real spirituality: to be in service to the silence of the heart.

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