What is really important you can’t understand with your mind.
ADYASHANTIWhat 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?
More Adyashanti Quotes
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There is, quite literally, nothing to understand.
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True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.
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As I often tell my students, the person you’ll have the hardest time opening to and truly loving without reserve is yourself. Once you can do that, you can love the whole universe unconditionally.
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Whatever you want, be it. If you want connection, it’s because you are connection. Be what you want, and then it happens all around you. If you want love, be it.
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We think there’s someplace other than here to get to—that’s what drives the whole pursuit.
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In liberation, you stand alone. You stand alone because you need no supports of any kind. You need no supports because you have realized that the very notion of a separate you no longer exists.
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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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What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.
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If you give yourself this gift of not knowing and you follow it, a vast spaciousness and mysterious openness dawns within you.
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With this love you can feel the walls of opposition come down naturally in the acknowledgement of deep connection. Not only do the walls of opposition fall, but love is felt for every human being and for life itself.
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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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As if it were their job to be nice to you, you put yourself at odds with what is, and suffering will surely follow.
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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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What you run away from owns you. You are the dog on a leash. The most you can do is to tug against the leash.
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The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.
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No matter what spiritual path you’ve walked or what teachings you’ve followed, they must lead you back to no path and no teaching. A true teaching is like a blazing fire that consumes itself.
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In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself. Primordial awareness is the source in which all objects arise and subside.
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Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.
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The most difficult thing for spiritual seekers to do is to stop struggling, striving, seeking, and searching. Why? Because in the absence of struggle you don’t know who you are; you lose your boundaries.
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Most spiritual seekers move away from this insecurity by seeking and striving for a distant spiritual goal. That’s how they avoid feeling insecure.
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As if some dreadful fate would overcome us if we were to face the pure light of truth and lay bare our fearful clinging to illusion.
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When you see that everything is a momentary display of reality, then you stop resisting it. Resistance hurts, only every single time. Love is the state of nonresistance.
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Feel this moment, see it with a willingness to experience it deeply, whether it be good, bad, or indifferent. Emotionally and feelingly be fully present, right here, vulnerable, with your heart. Just be present. Don’t live from your conditioned mind, live from unconditional truth.
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Gratitude is the appreciation of what is, of life, of existence, of anybody and anything, for just the way it is.
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They know deep down that certain things in their lives are working or aren’t working, that certain parts of their lives are functional and others are dysfunctional. But sometimes, as human beings, we don’t want to know what’s not convenient. So we pretend not to know.
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This awake silence is available to anyone in this moment. All you have to do is stop using your mind to look for it. It doesn’t know where to find it.
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