There is, quite literally, nothing to understand.
ADYASHANTIHave you noticed, with whatever quality of love you have experienced, that when true love arises, it opens up both your mind and emotions? It’s an openness to whatever is happening.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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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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Most human beings have an imprinting that if they’re real, if they’re honest, somebody’s not gonna like it. And they won’t be able to control their environment if they tell the truth.
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If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.
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What the universe will manifest when you are in alignment with it is a lot more interesting than what you try to manifest
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True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.
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True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.
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In a certain sense, if I have an idea about you that I believe, I’ve degraded you. I’ve made you into something very small. This is the way of human beings, this is what we do to each other.
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The realization of Truth and Reality can never be created by the mind … it always comes as a gift of grace. Inquiry clears away misperceptions and illusions, making one available to the movements of grace.
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Nothing appears to be something. The human experience is a senseory organ for the divine self. Through these eyes, the divine gets to see itself in form.
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Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.
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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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The body is a sensing instrument of consciousness. Without the body and mind, the trees could not see themselves.
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The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.
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Love causes us to be deeply connected in an unspoken way. It happens when we’re really available, really open.
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You can’t look at what’s looking. You can’t think about that which is prior to thought.
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Radiantly nothing. Absolutely and eternally zero. Emptiness that is awake. Emptiness that is full. Emptiness that is everything.
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Whatever you can become will ultimately be destroyed. Only what you already are can’t be taken away.
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Right now you can allow yourself to experience a very simple sense of not knowing – not knowing what or who you are, not knowing what this moment is, not knowing anything.
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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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That there is nothing to support, that the whole ego experience was a flimsy illusion. So you stand alone but are never, never lonely because everywhere you look, all you see is That, and you are That.
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Love moves without an agenda. It just moves because that is its nature to move.
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Grace is something that comes to us when we somehow find ourselves completely available, when we become openhearted and open-minded, and are willing to entertain the possibility that we may not know what we think we know.
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Faith is a withholding of conclusion so that you allow what is to arise.
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When you realize what you are now, the issue of death will solve itself.
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Actually, all paths lead away from the truth…how’s that? All paths. There’s no such thing as a path to the truth. The truth’s already here, where are you going?
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True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.
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