This moment in which you experience stillness is every moment. Don’t let the mind seduce you into the past or future. Stay in the moment, and dare to consider that you can be free now.
ADYASHANTIMisery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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There’s a great space in which this moment takes place. There’s a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.
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What the universe will manifest when you are in alignment with it is a lot more interesting than what you try to manifest
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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 main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.
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Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being, pure consciousness. This is actually the very substance of your own self and being.
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The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.
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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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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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Awakening to the truth is a deep realization of what you are as an experience. What is it that is listening? What is it that is feeling? Feel it. Sense it. Welcome it.
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There’s something more to life than what we see on the surface.
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You must want to know the truth more than you want to feel secure in order to fully awaken to the fact that you are nothing but Awakeness itself.
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When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.
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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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If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume your mind’s clothing with more sooty knowledge.
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Question your thoughts. Question your stories. Question your assumptions. Question your opinions. Question your conclusions. Question them all into utter emptiness, stillness and joy. The keys to freedom are in your hands. Use them.
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