The mind wants to land, to fixate, to hold a concept, but the only way you can be really free is by not fixating. That’s part of true maturity, and it’s one of the hardest things for spiritual people who have had true and powerful revelations to go through.
ADYASHANTIThe Truth doesn’t answer anything. The Truth IS everything!
More Adyashanti Quotes
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Has it ever occurred to you that you are seeking God with His eyes?
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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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Most people don’t get out of childhood, or adolescence, without being wounded for telling the truth. Someone says ‘you can’t say that’ or ‘you shouldn’t say that’ or ‘that wasn’t appropriate’.
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Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.
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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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Stop all delays, all seeking and all striving. Put down your concepts, ideas and beliefs. For one instant be still and directly encounter the silent unknown core of your being. In that instant Freedom will embrace you and reveal the Awakening that you are.
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Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?
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Be a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don’t expect it to be easy or even noticed.
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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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The beautiful thing about the truth of being is that it’s so unimaginably immediate.
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Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.
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I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn’t exist?
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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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How do I integrate spirituality into my everyday life? Throw out the concept of “spiritual life” and “everyday life.” There is only life, undivided and whole.
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This world is not my concern; it is myself.
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