Most human beings have an imprinting that if they’re real, if they’re honest, somebody’s not gonna like it. And they won’t be able to control their environment if they tell the truth.
ADYASHANTIWhat you run away from owns you. You are the dog on a leash. The most you can do is to tug against the leash.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, 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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When we really start to take a look at who we think we are, we become very grace prone.
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Take one step backward into the unknown.
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What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.
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Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.
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When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are. When I have a thought about you, that’s something I’ve created. I’ve turned you into an idea.
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When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what’s left? A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are.
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Grace is something that comes to us when we somehow find ourselves completely available, when we become openhearted and open-minded, and are willing to entertain the possibility that we may not know what we think we know.
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You’re willing to realize that maybe everything you’ve ever thought about yourself really isn’t true.
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Freedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom.
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One must be willing to stand alone – in the unknown, with no reference to authority or the past or any of one’s conditioning. One must stand where no one has stood before in complete nakedness, innocence, and humility.
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When the eternal and the human meet, that’s where love is born — not through escaping our humanity or trying to disappear into transcendence, but through finding that place where they come into union.
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Many Sages have said, “Your world is a dream. You’re living in an illusion.” They’re referring to this world of the mind and the way we believe our thoughts about reality.
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It is one thing to touch a flame and know it is hot, but quite another to jump into that flame and be consumed by it.
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In the heart of a human being, emptiness becomes love. When we touch that Source, instantly the love is present. Literally, the divine becomes human and the human becomes divine.
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