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.
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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The middle way is an invitation to leap beyond nirvana and samsara and to realize the unborn Buddha mind right in the middle of everywhere.
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Serving the Truth becomes our life instead of just an isolated event. It takes the abstractness out of spirituality. That’s the opportunity of real spirituality: to be in service to the silence of the heart.
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The Way of Liberation is not a belief system; it is something to be put into practice.
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We need to see each moment of apparent bondage as an invitation to freedom. Then it becomes an act of love, an act of compassion, to stop running away.
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A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.
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When you realize what you are now, the issue of death will solve itself.
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Has it ever occurred to you that you are seeking God with His eyes?
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Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control.
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A meditative mind is at ease because it’s not trying to acquire anything.
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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.
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As I often tell my students, the person you’ll have the hardest time opening to and truly loving without reserve is yourself. Once you can do that, you can love the whole universe unconditionally.
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You must choose between your attachments and happiness.
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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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The willingness to not bypass illusion is very important. We come to nirvana by way of samsara. We come to see the true nature of things by seeing through the illusory nature of things.
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Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretence. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.
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