What would happen if you were to allow everything to be exactly as it is? If you gave up the need for control, and instead embraced the whole of your experience in each moment that arose?
ADYASHANTIRefuse to disconnect from love and every relationship will be totally transformed; even the relationship with yourself.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control.
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Doubt is always accompanied by a pervasive cynicism that unconsciously puts a negative spin on whatever it touches.
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We need to see each moment of apparent bondage as an invitation to freedom. Then it becomes an act of love, an act of compassion, to stop running away.
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True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.
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True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.
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In order to be truly free, you must desire to know the truth more than you want to feel good. Because, if feeling good is your goal, then as soon as you feel better you will lose interest in what is true.
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There’s a fierceness about life that calls for a fierceness to not anxiously solve it but to allow it to transform you.
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We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world.
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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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True love has nothing to do with liking someone, agreeing with him or her or being compatible. It is a love of unity, a love of seeing God wearing all the masks, and recognising itself in them all..
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This moment in which you experience stillness is every moment. Don’t let the mind seduce you into the past or future. Stay in the moment, and dare to consider that you can be free now.
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Trying to maintain a pleasant state and avoid an unpleasant state is actually the cause of sorrow. When you stop resisting, you see that what seems frightening is actually the absolute beauty of reality.
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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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In the end it’s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t.
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So most of us human beings have a very deep underlying conditioning that says that just to be who we are is not OK…….
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