One Zen master said, The whole universe is my true personality. This is a very wonderful saying… If you want to see what you truly are, open the window, and everything you see is in fact the expression of your inner reality. Can you embrace all of it?
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More Adyashanti Quotes
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This does not mean that feeling good or experiencing love and bliss is a bad thing. Given the choice, anyone would choose to feel bliss rather than sorrow.
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Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.
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If you give yourself this gift of not knowing and you follow it, a vast spaciousness and mysterious openness dawns within you.
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Self-inquiry is a spiritually induced form of wintertime. It’s not about looking for a right answer so much as stripping away and letting you see what is not necessary, what you can do without, what you are without your leaves.
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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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True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.
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The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really 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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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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Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness
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It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the rabid dissatisfaction with living anything less than a fully authentic life.
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All you have to do is say “yes.” Don’t make some big project out of it. Don’t make some big deal out of it. Just say “yes.” You don’t even know what it means to say “yes,” but you say it anyway. You’ll never know what it means to say “yes,” but you do it anyway.
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You don’t awaken, what has eternally been awake realizes itself. That which is eternally awake is what you are.
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To pause for just a moment and realize that maybe you aren’t who you imagine yourself to be.
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How do I integrate spirituality into my everyday life? Throw out the concept of “spiritual life” and “everyday life.” There is only life, undivided and whole.
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