All delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we’re talking to ourselves and then believing what we are saying.
ADYASHANTIWhat matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make through personal investigation.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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Faith is a withholding of conclusion so that you allow what is to arise.
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All we really want in the end is to be connected once again with the Truth of our being, to realize what it is that wears this mask of self.
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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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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.
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The beautiful thing about the truth of being is that it’s so unimaginably immediate.
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The world’s problems are, by and large, human problems-the unavoidable consequence of egoic sleepwalking. If we care to look, all the signs are present to suggest that we are not only sleepwalking, but at times borderline insane as well.
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My teacher used to say ‘all love is bittersweet’. All things experienced fully, reveal their opposite.
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Fear is very often a part of the spiritual path. When people sit down and meditate it’s not at all uncommon for fear to arise at some point.
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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.
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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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True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.
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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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Our yearning for truth actually comes from truth.
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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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We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world.
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