Every time you claim, “I am this”, you just claimed another sense perception, thought, emotion, or feeling.
ADYASHANTIRight 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.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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There’s something more to life than what we see on the surface.
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Only something as insane as human beings would ever asked themselves if ‘I’m good.’ You don’t find oak trees having existential crisis. ‘I feel so rotten about myself. I don’t produce as much acorns as the one next to me.’
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Sincere and committed now, with absolute honesty and willingness to uncover and let go of any illusions that come between you and the realization of Reality.
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It simply means that if this desire to feel good is stronger than the yearning to see, know, and experience Truth, then this desire will always be distorting the perception of what is Real, while corrupting one’s deepest integrity.
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To be here, all you have to do is let go of who you think you are. That’s all! And then you realize, “I’m here.” Here is where thoughts aren’t believed. Every time you come here, you are nothing.
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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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If you were able to give up control absolutely, totally, and completely, then you would be a spiritually free being.
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We must leave the entire collection of conditioned thought behind and let ourselves be led by the inner thread of silence into the unknown, beyond where all paths end, to that place where we go innocently or not at all, not once but continually.
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No matter what spiritual path you’ve walked or what teachings you’ve followed, they must lead you back to no path and no teaching. A true teaching is like a blazing fire that consumes itself.
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Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness
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Faith is a withholding of conclusion so that you allow what is to arise.
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We must become expressions of, not consumers of, realization.
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Enlightenment is a destructive process.
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Deep down we all suspect that something is very wrong with the way we perceive life but we try very, very hard not to notice it. And the way we remain blind to our frightful condition is through an obsessive and pathological denial of being.
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My teacher used to say ‘all love is bittersweet’. All things experienced fully, reveal their opposite.
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