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.
ADYASHANTIAs if it were their job to be nice to you, you put yourself at odds with what is, and suffering will surely follow.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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Freedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom.
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What you run away from owns you. You are the dog on a leash. The most you can do is to tug against the leash.
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Has it ever occurred to you that you are seeking God with His eyes?
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We think there’s someplace other than here to get to—that’s what drives the whole pursuit.
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It simply means that if this desire to feel good is stronger than the yearning to see, know, and experience Truth, then this desire will always be distorting the perception of what is Real, while corrupting one’s deepest integrity.
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Gratitude is the appreciation of what is, of life, of existence, of anybody and anything, for just the way it is.
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You must choose between your attachments and happiness.
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What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.
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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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The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being.
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The realization of Truth and Reality can never be created by the mind … it always comes as a gift of grace. Inquiry clears away misperceptions and illusions, making one available to the movements of grace.
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Most human beings spend their lives battling with opposing inner forces: what they think they should do versus what they are doing; how they feel about themselves versus how they are; whether they think they’re right and worthy or wrong and unworthy.
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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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Serving the Truth becomes our life instead of just an isolated event. It takes the abstractness out of spirituality. That’s the opportunity of real spirituality: to be in service to the silence of the heart.
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The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.
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