Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.
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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Grace is something that comes to us when we somehow find ourselves completely available, when we become openhearted and open-minded, and are willing to entertain the possibility that we may not know what we think we know.
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At a certain point we need to grow up; we need to look inside ourselves for our inner guidance. There are things most human beings know; they just don’t want to know them.
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If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.
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Awareness isn’t something we own; awareness isn’t something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.
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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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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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My teacher used to say ‘all love is bittersweet’. All things experienced fully, reveal their opposite.
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[And yet] it is astounding how completely we humans define ourselves by the content of our minds, feelings, and history.
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What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make through personal investigation.
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Freedom and Love arise when you die into the unknown mystery of being.
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In liberation, you stand alone. You stand alone because you need no supports of any kind. You need no supports because you have realized that the very notion of a separate you no longer exists.
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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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Most spiritual seekers move away from this insecurity by seeking and striving for a distant spiritual goal. That’s how they avoid feeling insecure.
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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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To remain unconscious of being is to remain asleep to our own reality and therefore asleep to reality at large. The choice is simple: awaken to being or sleep an endless sleep.
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