Truth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is discovered minute to minute or not at all.
ADYASHANTIIf you have any image of what the Truth is, slay it immediately because that’s not it.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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If we know who and what we are very thoroughly, we will express and manifest that in what we do. It is all very simple.
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As you peel it back, in the heart of nothing, that is love. You are what you are seeking. Life is a set up so that each of us can actually see in ourselves the truth for ourselves.
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We don’t come to nirvana by avoiding samsara. We don’t come to clarity by avoiding confusion.
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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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All is always well even when it seems unbelievably unwell.
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The beautiful thing about the truth of being is that it’s so unimaginably immediate.
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Whatever you want, be it. If you want connection, it’s because you are connection. Be what you want, and then it happens all around you. If you want love, be it.
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As I often tell my students, the person you’ll have the hardest time opening to and truly loving without reserve is yourself. Once you can do that, you can love the whole universe unconditionally.
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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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[And yet] it is astounding how completely we humans define ourselves by the content of our minds, feelings, and history.
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Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully.
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Only something as insane as human beings would ever asked themselves if ‘I’m good.’ You don’t find oak trees having existential crisis. ‘I feel so rotten about myself. I don’t produce as much acorns as the one next to me.’
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The silence inside of you is the sound of your knowledge collapsing. Remember, it is you who said, ‘I want to be free.’
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When you inquire ‘Who am I?’ if you are honest, you’ll notice that it takes you right back to silence instantly. The brain doesn’t have an answer, so all of a sudden there is silence.
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All we really want in the end is to be connected once again with the Truth of our being, to realize what it is that wears this mask of self.
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