You’re willing to realize that maybe everything you’ve ever thought about yourself really isn’t true.
ADYASHANTIYou’re willing to realize that maybe everything you’ve ever thought about yourself really isn’t true.
ADYASHANTIThis 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.
ADYASHANTIA quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom.
ADYASHANTITo be free of fear is to be full of Love.
ADYASHANTIIn the end it’s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t.
ADYASHANTIYou think that enlightenment is something other than what is happening right now. This is your primary mistake.
ADYASHANTIThe more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.
ADYASHANTIAs soon as the mind pulls out an agenda and decides what needs to change, that’s unreality. Life doesn’t need to decide who’s right and who’s wrong. Life doesn’t need to know the “right” way to go because it’s going there anyway.
ADYASHANTIThe mind may accept or deny that you are awareness, but either way it can’t really understand. It cannot comprehend. Thought cannot comprehend what is beyond thought.
ADYASHANTIThoughts are just moving through consciousness. They have no power. Nothing has reality until you reach it, grab it, and somehow impregnate it with the power of belief.
ADYASHANTIInherent in the impulse to be free, is insecurity. The impulse to be free comes from outside of the mind, and because of this, it makes the mind feel very insecure.
ADYASHANTIAs you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind’s compulsive control, contractions, and identifications.
ADYASHANTIThere’s something more to life than what we see on the surface.
ADYASHANTILove 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.
ADYASHANTIThis moment in which you experience stillness is every moment. Don’t let the mind seduce you into the past or future. Stay in the moment, and dare to consider that you can be free now.
ADYASHANTIIn true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself. Primordial awareness is the source in which all objects arise and subside.
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