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.
ADYASHANTIThe 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.
ADYASHANTIYou’re willing to realize that maybe everything you’ve ever thought about yourself really isn’t true.
ADYASHANTIHave you noticed, with whatever quality of love you have experienced, that when true love arises, it opens up both your mind and emotions? It’s an openness to whatever is happening.
ADYASHANTIHow 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.
ADYASHANTIIf we know who and what we are very thoroughly, we will express and manifest that in what we do. It is all very simple.
ADYASHANTIThe separate self is just the conglomeration of these opposing forces. When the self drops away, inner division drops away with it.
ADYASHANTIThe question of being is everything. Nothing could be more important or consequential-n othing where the stakes run so high.
ADYASHANTIGrief, unresisted, is grace. It doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt anymore, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t rip your heart out….In great grief, there’s an incredible love in it. In love there’s a tinge of bitter. In true love.
ADYASHANTIFeel your way into what I am saying rather than thinking about it. Only a self-concept looks and longs for God. Drop your self-concept and there is only God meeting God. Enlightenment is the restoration of cosmic humor.
ADYASHANTIIt 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.
ADYASHANTITruth is quite literally the only thing that does exist. It is not hidden but in plain view, not lacking but abundantly present.
ADYASHANTIWe must become expressions of, not consumers of, realization.
ADYASHANTIOne 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.
ADYASHANTIWhen you begin to become conscious, more aware, when your eyes begin to open, the first thing you see is how deluded you are and how much you’re holding onto that which makes you suffer. This is, in many ways, the most important step: Are you willing to be aware?
ADYASHANTIThe main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.
ADYASHANTIA few minutes ago, you knew who you were-you had a history and a personality-but from this place of not knowing, you question all of that.
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