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Awakening to the truth is a deep realization of what you are as an experience. What is it that is listening? What is it that is feeling? Feel it. Sense it. Welcome it.

Adyashanti

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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Buddhism Buddhist Christian Christianity Create Created
Whatever you resist, persists.
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Persist Resist Whatever
When you stand in your own authority, based in your own direct experience, you meet that ultimate mystery that you are. Even though it may be at first unsettling to look into your own no-thingness.
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Authority Based May Mystery Stand Suffering Ultimate Want
Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering.
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Anger Angry Confused Resist Sad Sadness
Love causes us to be deeply connected in an unspoken way. It happens when we’re really available, really open.
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Available Cause Connected Deeply Happen Open Really Unspoken Way
There is, quite literally, nothing to understand.
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Literally Nothing Quite Understand
What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make through personal investigation.
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Able Discovery Matter Mimic People Practice Spiritual Spirituality
If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.
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Attachment Consciousness Elsewhere Listen Sit Something Want
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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Around Conditioned Deeply Listen Listening Look Silence
Completion comes when we not just wake up from all form, from all identification, but when love causes us to re-embrace it all.
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Cause Come Completion Embrace Identification Up Wake
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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Hardest Loving Often Opening Person Reserve Student Time
Meditation is a teaching which offers you the possibility of breaking free of this egoic state of consciousness and coming into a whole new realization of who and what you truly are. And all this starts with the willingness to question.
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Consciousness Egoic Meditation Offer Possibility Realization Teaching
I often describe the Absolute as Pure Infinite Potential, prior to being or becoming anything. It is forever unborn, yet gives birth to all of existence. About our ultimate nature nothing can be said; it must be revealed.
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Anything Becoming Forever Giving Infinite Potential Prior Unborn
Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.
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Only Silence Teacher Teaching Time
We need to see each moment of apparent bondage as an invitation to freedom. Then it becomes an act of love, an act of compassion, to stop running away.
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Apparent Bondage Compassion Freedom Invitation Need Running Stop
The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.
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Being Heart Life Lover True

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