Adyashanti on self
Adyashanti319 quotes“A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.”
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How 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.
AdyashantiAdyashanti At first it seems as if begoing follows becoming. But look even closer and you will see that there are only flashes of lightning illuminating the empty sky.
AdyashantiAdyashanti Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true. It is the way Life suggests that you are not in harmony with what is.
AdyashantiAdyashanti What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.
AdyashantiAdyashanti There’s something more to life than what we see on the surface.
AdyashantiAdyashanti We must become expressions of, not consumers of, realization.
AdyashantiAdyashanti It authenticates itself. Something inside us knows. This…is what has been sought for, longed for, looked for. This is it. Usually, it’s not what we expected.
AdyashantiAdyashanti True Meditation is the space in which everything gets revealed, everything gets seen, everything gets experienced. And as such, it lets go of itself. We don’t even let go. It lets go of itself.
AdyashantiAdyashanti Embrace suffering, and you transform your relationship with what causes you to suffer, as well as your relationship with suffering itself.
AdyashantiAdyashanti We think there’s someplace other than here to get to—that’s what drives the whole pursuit.
AdyashantiAdyashanti Meditation is not a technique to master; it is the highest form of prayer, a naked act of love and effortless surrender into the silent abyss beyond all knowing
AdyashantiAdyashanti In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself. Primordial awareness is the source in which all objects arise and subside.
AdyashantiAdyashanti The Buddha’s insight into the middle way is not simply about a balance between extremes. This conventional understanding misses the deeper revelation of the middle way as being the very nature of unexcelled enlightenment.
AdyashantiAdyashanti Many Sages have said, “Your world is a dream. You’re living in an illusion.” They’re referring to this world of the mind and the way we believe our thoughts about reality.
AdyashantiAdyashanti One doesn’t stay in a state of nirvana by hiding from difficulties. You stay in nirvana by lavishing nirvana on everyone you meet, by giving it away as fast as you receive it.
AdyashantiAdyashanti When you abide and accept everything completely and fully, you automatically go beyond.
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