Adyashanti on consciousness
Adyashanti319 quotes“The body is a sensing instrument of consciousness. Without the body and mind, the trees could not see themselves.”
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What the universe will manifest when you are in alignment with it is a lot more interesting than what you try to manifest
AdyashantiAdyashanti A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom.
AdyashantiAdyashanti Truth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is discovered minute to minute or not at all.
AdyashantiAdyashanti 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.
AdyashantiAdyashanti When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.
AdyashantiAdyashanti Gratitude is the appreciation of what is, of life, of existence, of anybody and anything, for just the way it is.
AdyashantiAdyashanti Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.
AdyashantiAdyashanti 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.
AdyashantiAdyashanti Meditation is not something restricted to times of formal seated meditation; it is most fundamentally an attitude of being-a resting in and as being. Once you get the feel of it, you will be able to tune into it more and more often during your daily life.
AdyashantiAdyashanti Love moves without an agenda. It just moves because that is its nature to move.
AdyashantiAdyashanti All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.
AdyashantiAdyashanti Our own intuition of what we’re called to is reality speaking to us individually and perfectly. We have to listen to how the Infinite talks to us and leads us. Reality, Life the Infinite, God, has a way of leading us in just the perfect way, if we will only just listen to it.
AdyashantiAdyashanti As you gently relax into awareness, into listening, the mind’s compulsive contraction around objects will fade. Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.
AdyashantiAdyashanti There is profound responsibility in being Love… more than the mind could imagine or hold up under. If most human beings truly realized the impact that they have on the whole, they’d be crushed by the realization of it.
AdyashantiAdyashanti I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn’t exist?
AdyashantiAdyashanti In order to be truly free, you must desire to know the truth more than you want to feel good. Because, if feeling good is your goal, then as soon as you feel better you will lose interest in what is true.
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When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Love of consciousness evokes the same in response Love of feeling evokes the opposite Love of body depends only on type and polarity.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness – the Self.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows ‘I am!’ No one can deny his own being.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
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