If we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn’t that what silence is? It’s a listening, a deep wordless listening.
ADYASHANTIFreedom and Love arise when you die into the unknown mystery of being.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.
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A meditative mind is at ease because it’s not trying to acquire anything.
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Question your thoughts. Question your stories. Question your assumptions. Question your opinions. Question your conclusions. Question them all into utter emptiness, stillness and joy. The keys to freedom are in your hands. Use them.
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You lose your separateness, you lose your specialness, you lose the dream you have lived all your life. Eventually you lose everything that your mind has created and awaken to who you truly are: the fullness of freedom, unbound by any identifications, identities, or boundaries.
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Stop all doing and be still. Let the fire of stillness burn everything and reveal That which is Openness.
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It is one thing to touch a flame and know it is hot, but quite another to jump into that flame and be consumed by it.
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Stop all delays, all seeking and all striving. Put down your concepts, ideas and beliefs. For one instant be still and directly encounter the silent unknown core of your being. In that instant Freedom will embrace you and reveal the Awakening that you are.
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Sincere and committed now, with absolute honesty and willingness to uncover and let go of any illusions that come between you and the realization of Reality.
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There is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.
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The truth lies beyond all forms of conceptual fundamentalism. What you are is the beyond—awake and present, here and now already. I am simply helping you to realize that.
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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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All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.
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One doesn’t stay in a state of nirvana by hiding from difficulties. You stay in nirvana by lavishing nirvana on everyone you meet, by giving it away as fast as you receive it.
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Spirituality does not require that you work hard toward achieving a result in the future as much as it requires you to be fully present.
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Take the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you.
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