The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?
ADYASHANTILove causes us to be deeply connected in an unspoken way. It happens when we’re really available, really open.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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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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Whatever you can become will ultimately be destroyed. Only what you already are can’t be taken away.
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If you tell yourself a sad story, the body reacts to that. And if you tell yourself a self-aggrandizing story, the body feels puffed up, confident. But when you realize it’s all stories, there can be a vast waking up out of the mind, out of the dream.
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Spirituality does not require that you work hard toward achieving a result in the future as much as it requires you to be fully present.
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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.
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Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.
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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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A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom.
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Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.
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When you get out of the driver’s seat, you find that life can drive itself, that actually life has always been driving itself. When you get out of the driver’s seat, it can drive itself so much easier-it can flow in ways you never imagined.
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You must choose between your attachments and happiness.
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At each moment we are expressing what we know ourselves to be. If we know ourselves very little we will express and manifest that unconsciousness of our true nature.
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The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.
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True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.
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Your life, all of your life, is your path to awakening. By resisting or not dealing with its challenges, you stay asleep to Reality. Pay attention to what life is trying to reveal to you. Say yes to its fierce, ruthless, and loving grace.
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