A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom.
ADYASHANTITo find out that you are empty of emptiness is to die into an aware mystery, which is the source of all existence.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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Whenever you aren’t manipulating your experience, you’re meditating. As soon as you meditate because you think you should, you’re controlling your experience again, and you’ve squeezed all the value out of your meditation.
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Spirituality does not require that you work hard toward achieving a result in the future as much as it requires you to be fully present.
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It is good to remember that the goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.
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True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.
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True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.
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Awareness isn’t something we own; awareness isn’t something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.
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What would happen if you were to allow everything to be exactly as it is? If you gave up the need for control, and instead embraced the whole of your experience in each moment that arose?
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The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.
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The truth lies beyond all forms of conceptual fundamentalism. What you are is the beyond—awake and present, here and now already. I am simply helping you to realize that.
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When we really start to take a look at who we think we are… we start to see that while we may have various thoughts, beliefs, and identities, they do not individually or collectively tell us who we are.
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The important thing is allowing the whole world to wake up. Part of allowing the whole world to wake up is recognizing that the whole world is free,
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A few minutes ago, you knew who you were-you had a history and a personality-but from this place of not knowing, you question all of that.
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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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When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what’s left? A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are.
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You come to see that everything you think you know about yourself, everything you think you know about the world, is based on assumptions, beliefs, and opinions-things that you believe because you were taught or told they were true.
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