Reality is always true to itself. When you’re in harmony with it, you experience bliss. As soon as you are not in harmony with it, you experience pain. This is the law of the universe; it is the way things are. Nobody gets out of this law.
ADYASHANTIEnlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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Relaxing into not knowing is almost like surrendering into a big, comfortable chair; you just fall into a field of possibility.
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My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.
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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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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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To be free of fear is to be full of Love.
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As if it were their job to be nice to you, you put yourself at odds with what is, and suffering will surely follow.
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Be a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don’t expect it to be easy or even noticed.
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One Zen master said, The whole universe is my true personality. This is a very wonderful saying… If you want to see what you truly are, open the window, and everything you see is in fact the expression of your inner reality. Can you embrace all of it?
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The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.
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When you let go of the egoic self what you’re getting in exchange is the whole universe.
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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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Enlightenment is the natural state of consciousness, the innocent state of consciousness, that state which is uncontaminated by the movement of thought, uncontaminated by control or manipulation of mind.
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Truth is quite literally the only thing that does exist. It is not hidden but in plain view, not lacking but abundantly present.
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Radiantly nothing. Absolutely and eternally zero. Emptiness that is awake. Emptiness that is full. Emptiness that is everything.
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Many spiritual people are involved in a radical denial of what is happening. They want to transcend it, get rid of it, get out of it, get away from it. There’s nothing wrong with that feeling, but the approach doesn’t work because it’s escapism in spiritual clothing.
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