Silence and stillness are not states and therefore cannot be produced or created. Silence is the non-state in which all states arise and subside. Silence, stillness and awareness are not states and can never be perceived in their totality as objects.
ADYASHANTIRefuse to disconnect from love and every relationship will be totally transformed; even the relationship with yourself.
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The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.
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There is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.
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Until we start to see these false perceptions for what they really are, consciousness will be imprisoned within the dream state.
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When the eternal and the human meet, that’s where love is born — not through escaping our humanity or trying to disappear into transcendence, but through finding that place where they come into union.
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As soon as you believe that a label you’ve put on yourself is true, you’ve limited something that is literally limitless, you’ve limited who you are into nothing but a thought.
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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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Faith is a withholding of conclusion so that you allow what is to arise.
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When we’re in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose.
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Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully.
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Eventually, in the state of liberation, meditation will simply become your natural condition.
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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.
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Right now you can allow yourself to experience a very simple sense of not knowing – not knowing what or who you are, not knowing what this moment is, not knowing anything.
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You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.
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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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Freedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom.
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