The realization of Truth and Reality can never be created by the mind … it always comes as a gift of grace. Inquiry clears away misperceptions and illusions, making one available to the movements of grace.
ADYASHANTIIf you filter my words through any tradition or ‘-ism’, you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is not static; it is alive. It cannot be put into concepts and be understood by the mind.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.
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You don’t awaken, what has eternally been awake realizes itself. That which is eternally awake is what you are.
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If we know who and what we are very thoroughly, we will express and manifest that in what we do. It is all very simple.
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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 see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are. When I have a thought about you, that’s something I’ve created. I’ve turned you into an idea.
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The mind wants to land, to fixate, to hold a concept, but the only way you can be really free is by not fixating. That’s part of true maturity, and it’s one of the hardest things for spiritual people who have had true and powerful revelations to go through.
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Meditation is not a technique to master; it is the highest form of prayer, a naked act of love and effortless surrender into the silent abyss beyond all knowing
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There’s a fierceness about life that calls for a fierceness to not anxiously solve it but to allow it to transform you.
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What gets taken away are all the exterior means we thought we wanted love to come to us. You have the choice to notice the perfect set up to see love is exactly what you are.
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The 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.
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To be free of fear is to be full of Love.
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The question of being is everything. Nothing could be more important or consequential-n othing where the stakes run so high.
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It is one thing to touch a flame and know it is hot, but quite another to jump into that flame and be consumed by it.
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Nothing appears to be something. The human experience is a senseory organ for the divine self. Through these eyes, the divine gets to see itself in form.
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It has no intention to harmonize. It has no agenda. It just happens. The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda. Everything else will have an agenda.
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