In silence a question has great power, because in silence a question will always lead you deeper into your experience. If there is no grounding in silence, a spiritual question is going to lead you into your mind.
ADYASHANTIDoubt is always accompanied by a pervasive cynicism that unconsciously puts a negative spin on whatever it touches.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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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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True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.
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When we really start to take a look at who we think we are, we become very grace prone.
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The Way of Liberation is not a belief system; it is something to be put into practice.
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Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier.
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When you rest deeply in the Unknown without trying to escape, your experience becomes very vast. As the experience of the Unknown deepens, your boundaries begin to dissolve. You realize, not just intellectually but on a deep level, that you have no idea who or what you are.
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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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Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.
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Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?
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A few minutes ago, you knew who you were-you had a history and a personality-but from this place of not knowing, you question all of that.
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The truth is you can’t try to let go. Trying is the opposite of letting go. To let go is to relinquish trying. To let go is much more like to let be.
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Spirituality does not require that you work hard toward achieving a result in the future as much as it requires you to be fully present.
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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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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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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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