The proof of the depth and embodiment of your realization will be seen in your love relationship. That’s where the proof is in the pudding. If it all collapses in your relationship, you have some work to do. And people do have a lot of difficulties in their relationships.
ADYASHANTIRefuse to disconnect from love and every relationship will be totally transformed; even the relationship with yourself.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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At any moment, we are either giving humanity the gift of our clarity or our confusion. And that clarity or confusion is affecting the humanity around us, the world around us. It is manifesting. It is taking form.
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If moonlight does not flood the empty night sky and reflect in every drop of water, on every blade of grass, then you are only looking at your own empty dream.
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When you begin to become conscious, more aware, when your eyes begin to open, the first thing you see is how deluded you are and how much you’re holding onto that which makes you suffer. This is, in many ways, the most important step: Are you willing to be aware?
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To see things as you see them or to see things differently—until you have given the whole world its freedom—you’ll never have your freedom.
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Enlightenment is a destructive process.
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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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As you gently relax into awareness, into listening, the mind’s compulsive contraction around objects will fade. Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.
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Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.
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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.
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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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We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world.
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Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness
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The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?
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The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.
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There is a very Simple Secret to being happy. Just let go of your ‘demand’ on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering.
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