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.
ADYASHANTIIn silence a question has great power, because in silence a question will always lead you deeper into your experience. If there is no grounding in silence, a spiritual question is going to lead you into your mind.
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Retreat is a response to the call of the heart-that call which beckons us toward reality, to the truth of our being, to that which is truly sane, really real and liberating …
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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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When someone says, ‘I love you,’ he is telling you about himself, not you. When someone says, ‘I hate you,’ she is telling you about herself, not you. World views are self views-literally.
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Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control.
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Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.
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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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The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being.
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Now don’t think that awakening is the end. Awakening is the end of seeking, the end of the seeker, but it is the beginning of a life lived from your true nature.
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Grief, unresisted, is grace. It doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt anymore, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t rip your heart out….In great grief, there’s an incredible love in it. In love there’s a tinge of bitter. In true love.
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If you filter my words through any tradition or ‘-ism’, you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is not static; it is alive. It cannot be put into concepts and be understood by the mind.
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An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.
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There is profound responsibility in being Love… more than the mind could imagine or hold up under. If most human beings truly realized the impact that they have on the whole, they’d be crushed by the realization of it.
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When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are.
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Truth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is discovered minute to minute or not at all.
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If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.
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