If moonlight does not flood the empty night sky and reflect in every drop of water, on every blade of grass, then you are only looking at your own empty dream.
ADYASHANTIMy teacher used to say ‘all love is bittersweet’. All things experienced fully, reveal their opposite.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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The moment that you are willing to step outside of tomorrow, outside of needing more time, or having more time, everything becomes possible. And you may finally notice where the Buddha has always been.
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The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda.
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The silence inside of you is the sound of your knowledge collapsing. Remember, it is you who said, ‘I want to be free.’
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True love has nothing to do with liking someone, agreeing with him or her or being compatible. It is a love of unity, a love of seeing God wearing all the masks, and recognising itself in them all..
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We don’t come to nirvana by avoiding samsara. We don’t come to clarity by avoiding confusion.
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What you run away from owns you. You are the dog on a leash. The most you can do is to tug against the leash.
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The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.
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As you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind’s compulsive control, contractions, and identifications.
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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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Stop all doing and be still. Let the fire of stillness burn everything and reveal That which is Openness.
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Gratitude is the appreciation of what is, of life, of existence, of anybody and anything, for just the way it is.
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Embrace suffering, and you transform your relationship with what causes you to suffer, as well as your relationship with suffering itself.
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Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true. It is the way Life suggests that you are not in harmony with what is.
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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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The most difficult thing for spiritual seekers to do is to stop struggling, striving, seeking, and searching. Why? Because in the absence of struggle you don’t know who you are; you lose your boundaries.
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