This movement of grasping and aversion gives rise to a sense of a separate ‘me,’ and in turn the sense of ‘me’ strengthens itself this way.
ADYASHANTIThe unknown, our own true nature, has the capacity to wake itself up when you start to fall in love with letting go of all the mental structures you hold onto. Contemplate this: there is no such thing as a true belief.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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Refuse to disconnect from love and every relationship will be totally transformed; even the relationship with yourself.
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If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.
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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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The biggest embrace of love you’ll ever make is to embrace yourself completely. Then you’ll realize you’ve just embraced the whole universe, and everything and everybody in it.
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You’ll have more love than you know what to do with. Whatever you are inside, you receive a thousandfold on the outside.
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We can’t have an idea of what life should look like, about how spirit should be manifesting as our very life, because all of those ideas would just be products of the past – something we learned, imagined, or desired.
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The truth is you can’t try to let go. Trying is the opposite of letting go. To let go is to relinquish trying. To let go is much more like to let be.
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True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.
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Stop all delays, all seeking and all striving. Put down your concepts, ideas and beliefs. For one instant be still and directly encounter the silent unknown core of your being. In that instant Freedom will embrace you and reveal the Awakening that you are.
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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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To pause for just a moment and realize that maybe you aren’t who you imagine yourself to be.
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What if you let go of every bit of control and every urge that you have, right down to the most infinitesimal urge to control anything, anywhere, including anything that may be happening with you at this moment?
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At a certain point we need to grow up; we need to look inside ourselves for our inner guidance. There are things most human beings know; they just don’t want to know them.
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All delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we’re talking to ourselves and then believing what we are saying.
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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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The body is a sensing instrument of consciousness. Without the body and mind, the trees could not see themselves.
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When you stand in your own authority, based in your own direct experience, you meet that ultimate mystery that you are. Even though it may be at first unsettling to look into your own no-thingness.
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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.
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This simply strengthens the ego. In fact, such conclusions arise from the ego itself. Pay no attention to them. Don’t go to war with yourself; simply inquire into who you are.
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Thoughts in your head are really no different than the sound of a bird outside. It is just that you decide that they are more or less relevant.
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It has no intention to harmonize. It has no agenda. It just happens. The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda. Everything else will have an agenda.
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The you who is chasing enlightenment will never become enlightened. Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach,
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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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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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What gets taken away are all the exterior means we thought we wanted love to come to us. You have the choice to notice the perfect set up to see love is exactly what you are.
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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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