All is always well even when it seems unbelievably unwell.
ADYASHANTIAwareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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Usually we think that we are looking at a tree, but the tree is looking at itself through us. Without this instrument, the tree does not get to see itself. We are sensing instruments of the Divine.
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If you resist confusion,you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them.
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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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To remain unconscious of being is to remain asleep to our own reality and therefore asleep to reality at large. The choice is simple: awaken to being or sleep an endless sleep.
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Love causes us to be deeply connected in an unspoken way. It happens when we’re really available, really open.
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The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.
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An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.
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Only something as insane as human beings would ever asked themselves if ‘I’m good.’ You don’t find oak trees having existential crisis. ‘I feel so rotten about myself. I don’t produce as much acorns as the one next to me.’
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If we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn’t that what silence is? It’s a listening, a deep wordless listening.
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The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. When you start to see the light that you really are, the light waking up in you, the radiance, you realize it has no intention to change you.
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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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When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.
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Freedom is a state of complete and absolute insecurity and not knowing. So, in seeking security and safety, you actually distance yourself from the freedom you want.
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Inherent in the impulse to be free, is insecurity. The impulse to be free comes from outside of the mind, and because of this, it makes the mind feel very insecure.
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We think there’s someplace other than here to get to—that’s what drives the whole pursuit.
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