If you think that people should be nice to one another, then by all means be nice. But when you project that belief onto the people and the world around you as if it were an objective reality, or worse still.
ADYASHANTIThe Way of Liberation is not a belief system; it is something to be put into practice.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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With this love you can feel the walls of opposition come down naturally in the acknowledgement of deep connection. Not only do the walls of opposition fall, but love is felt for every human being and for life itself.
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The biggest embrace of love you’ll ever make is to embrace yourself completely. Then you’ll realize you’ve just embraced the whole universe, and everything and everybody in it.
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Our yearning for truth actually comes from truth.
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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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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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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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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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So the biggest act of compassion starts within. And when the self is no longer seen as a problem, this is called “the peace that passes all understanding.
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A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom.
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Imagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.
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Our own intuition of what we’re called to is reality speaking to us individually and perfectly. We have to listen to how the Infinite talks to us and leads us. Reality, Life the Infinite, God, has a way of leading us in just the perfect way, if we will only just listen to it.
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Life itself is nothing but relationship.
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Once again, we find ourselves back in the unknown – not in the idea of the unknown, but in the lived reality of it. It’s the mind humbled, on its knees, with bare feet and free of the known.
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Grace is something that comes to us when we somehow find ourselves completely available, when we become openhearted and open-minded, and are willing to entertain the possibility that we may not know what we think we know.
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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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