If 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.
ADYASHANTICan you imagine if you really let it in that you are not a problem to be solved in any way? Imagine you knew that anything that would tell you otherwise is just a movement of thought in the mind that says “Whatever is, isn’t the way it is supposed to be.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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There’s a great space in which this moment takes place. There’s a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.
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When you realize what you are now, the issue of death will solve itself.
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You’ll have more love than you know what to do with. Whatever you are inside, you receive a thousandfold on the outside.
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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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[And yet] it is astounding how completely we humans define ourselves by the content of our minds, feelings, and history.
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If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.
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Actually, all paths lead away from the truth…how’s that? All paths. There’s no such thing as a path to the truth. The truth’s already here, where are you going?
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Love moves without an agenda. It just moves because that is its nature to move.
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This one question-‘What do I know for certain?’-is tremendously powerful. When you look deeply into this question, it actually destroys your world. It destroys your whole sense of self, and it’s meant to.
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Can you imagine if you really let it in that you are not a problem to be solved in any way? Imagine you knew that anything that would tell you otherwise is just a movement of thought in the mind that says “Whatever is, isn’t the way it is supposed to be.
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A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.
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The separate self is just the conglomeration of these opposing forces. When the self drops away, inner division drops away with it.
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In a certain sense, if I have an idea about you that I believe, I’ve degraded you. I’ve made you into something very small. This is the way of human beings, this is what we do to each other.
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The aim of my teaching is enlightenment, awakening from the dream state of separateness into the reality of the One. In short, my teaching is focused on realizing what you are.
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My experience of fundamental Truth is that it’s a place of extraordinary intelligence. It’s a place from which great intelligence arises. I call it a place of absolute infinite potential.
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