As if it were their job to be nice to you, you put yourself at odds with what is, and suffering will surely follow.
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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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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When you abide and accept everything completely and fully, you automatically go beyond.
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Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?
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Has it ever occurred to you that you are seeking God with His eyes?
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Usually we think that we are looking at a tree, but the tree is looking at itself through us. Without this instrument, the tree does not get to see itself. We are sensing instruments of the Divine.
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When you get out of the driver’s seat, you find that life can drive itself, that actually life has always been driving itself. When you get out of the driver’s seat, it can drive itself so much easier-it can flow in ways you never imagined.
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The truth is that you already are what you are seeking. You are looking for God with his eyes. I suggest you ask, “What’s ultimately behind this set of eyes?” Turn around to see what is looking.
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Inherent in the impulse to be free, is insecurity. The impulse to be free comes from outside of the mind, and because of this, it makes the mind feel very insecure.
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The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears.
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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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Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.
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Life itself is nothing but relationship.
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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.
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If you filter my words through any tradition or ‘-ism’, you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is not static; it is alive. It cannot be put into concepts and be understood by the mind.
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That there is nothing to support, that the whole ego experience was a flimsy illusion. So you stand alone but are never, never lonely because everywhere you look, all you see is That, and you are That.
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