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.
ADYASHANTIThe mind may accept or deny that you are awareness, but either way it can’t really understand. It cannot comprehend. Thought cannot comprehend what is beyond thought.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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When you let go of the egoic self what you’re getting in exchange is the whole universe.
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You don’t awaken, what has eternally been awake realizes itself. That which is eternally awake is what you are.
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If you resist confusion,you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them.
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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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One Zen master said, The whole universe is my true personality. This is a very wonderful saying… If you want to see what you truly are, open the window, and everything you see is in fact the expression of your inner reality. Can you embrace all of it?
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Many people think that it is the function of a spiritual teaching to provide answers to life’s biggest questions, but actually, the opposite is true. The primary task of any good spiritual teaching is not to answer your questions, but to question your answers.
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Human beings have a drive for security and safety, which is often what fuels the spiritual search. This very drive for security and safety is what causes so much misery and confusion.
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There is, quite literally, nothing to understand.
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Awareness isn’t something we own; awareness isn’t something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.
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The mind wants to land, to fixate, to hold a concept, but the only way you can be really free is by not fixating. That’s part of true maturity, and it’s one of the hardest things for spiritual people who have had true and powerful revelations to go through.
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The silence inside of you is the sound of your knowledge collapsing. Remember, it is you who said, ‘I want to be free.’
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The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda.
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Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?
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Take the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you.
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There’s something more to life than what we see on the surface.
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