What am I, really? The beautiful thing…is nobody can tell us what we are. Nobody can really tell us. Not in a way that’s going to be satisfactory to us. Our true nature is self-authenticating. When we bump into our true nature,
ADYASHANTIAwakening 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.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.
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[And yet] it is astounding how completely we humans define ourselves by the content of our minds, feelings, and history.
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Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.
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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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We think there’s someplace other than here to get to—that’s what drives the whole pursuit.
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The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.
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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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To be free of fear is to be full of Love.
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Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.
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The unknown, our own true nature, has the capacity to wake itself up when you start to fall in love with letting go of all the mental structures you hold onto. Contemplate this: there is no such thing as a true belief.
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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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There is no security in freedom, at least not in the sense that we normally think of security. This is, of course, why it is so free: there’s nothing there to grab hold of.
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Now don’t think that awakening is the end. Awakening is the end of seeking, the end of the seeker, but it is the beginning of a life lived from your true nature.
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Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.
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When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.
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