When you inquire ‘Who am I?’ if you are honest, you’ll notice that it takes you right back to silence instantly. The brain doesn’t have an answer, so all of a sudden there is silence.
ADYASHANTITo pause for just a moment and realize that maybe you aren’t who you imagine yourself to be.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.
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Most spiritual seekers move away from this insecurity by seeking and striving for a distant spiritual goal. That’s how they avoid feeling insecure.
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The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.
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Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.
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All delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we’re talking to ourselves and then believing what we are saying.
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A meditative mind is at ease because it’s not trying to acquire anything.
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The unknown, our own true nature, has the capacity to wake itself up when you start to fall in love with letting go of all the mental structures you hold onto. Contemplate this: there is no such thing as a true belief.
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Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.
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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.
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True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.
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In the same vein, my teachings are not meant to acquire followers or imitators, but to awaken beings to eternal truth and thus to awakened life and living.
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You’re Arguing with ‘What Is’ – Your demands keep you chained to the ‘dream-state’ of the conditioned mind. The desire to ‘control’… is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake.
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Every time you claim, “I am this”, you just claimed another sense perception, thought, emotion, or feeling.
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The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.
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All we really want in the end is to be connected once again with the Truth of our being, to realize what it is that wears this mask of self.
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