There is nothing wrong with thought and it can be used whenever necessary. But in every moment you can choose to follow your thoughts or you can recognize that which is not thinking. Don’t try to stop thinking, let it happen. Just recognize that which is not thinking.
ADYASHANTIOnly something as insane as human beings would ever asked themselves if ‘I’m good.’ You don’t find oak trees having existential crisis. ‘I feel so rotten about myself. I don’t produce as much acorns as the one next to me.’
More Adyashanti Quotes
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One must be willing to stand alone – in the unknown, with no reference to authority or the past or any of one’s conditioning. One must stand where no one has stood before in complete nakedness, innocence, and humility.
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The aim of my teaching is enlightenment, awakening from the dream state of separateness into the reality of the One. In short, my teaching is focused on realizing what you are.
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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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Has it ever occurred to you that you are seeking God with His eyes?
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This simply strengthens the ego. In fact, such conclusions arise from the ego itself. Pay no attention to them. Don’t go to war with yourself; simply inquire into who you are.
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Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.
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When you realize what you are now, the issue of death will solve itself.
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Enlightenment is the natural state of consciousness, the innocent state of consciousness, that state which is uncontaminated by the movement of thought, uncontaminated by control or manipulation of mind.
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If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.
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No one can give you the strength of character necessary… Only you can find that passion within that burns with an integrity that will not settle for anything less than the Truth.
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If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume your mind’s clothing with more sooty knowledge.
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When you abide and accept everything completely and fully, you automatically go beyond.
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All delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we’re talking to ourselves and then believing what we are saying.
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Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.
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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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