Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being, pure consciousness. This is actually the very substance of your own self and being.
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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Our illusions-the beliefs we hold on to-are the very doorways to our freedom. We simply have to enter through them without grasping or pushing away. We must not believe them, but we must not run away from them either.
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Until we start to see these false perceptions for what they really are, consciousness will be imprisoned within the dream state.
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Fear is very often a part of the spiritual path. When people sit down and meditate it’s not at all uncommon for fear to arise at some point.
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The body is a sensing instrument of consciousness. Without the body and mind, the trees could not see themselves.
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The perspective of Love doesn’t leave anybody out. Until your vision and compassion is big enough to include those who oppose you, you are simply contributing to the continuation of destructiveness . The end of separation is the salvation for all.
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The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being.
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You must choose between your attachments and happiness.
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To see things as you see them or to see things differently—until you have given the whole world its freedom—you’ll never have your freedom.
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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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The aim of my teaching is enlightenment, awakening from the dream state of separateness into the reality of the One. In short, my teaching is focused on realizing what you are.
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This awake silence is available to anyone in this moment. All you have to do is stop using your mind to look for it. It doesn’t know where to find it.
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Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true. It is the way Life suggests that you are not in harmony with what is.
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If you were able to give up control absolutely, totally, and completely, then you would be a spiritually free being.
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To find out that you are empty of emptiness is to die into an aware mystery, which is the source of all existence.
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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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