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.
ADYASHANTIWhat you run away from owns you. You are the dog on a leash. The most you can do is to tug against the leash.
ADYASHANTIThe process of finding the truth may not be a process by which we feel increasingly better and better. It may be a process by which we look at things honestly, sincerely, truthfully, and that may or may not be an easy thing to do.
ADYASHANTITrue freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.
ADYASHANTIThe biggest embrace of love you’ll ever make is to embrace yourself completely. Then you’ll realize you’ve just embraced the whole universe, and everything and everybody in it.
ADYASHANTIServing the Truth becomes our life instead of just an isolated event. It takes the abstractness out of spirituality. That’s the opportunity of real spirituality: to be in service to the silence of the heart.
ADYASHANTIEnlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.
ADYASHANTIStop all doing and be still. Let the fire of stillness burn everything and reveal That which is Openness.
ADYASHANTIThe you who is chasing enlightenment will never become enlightened. Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach,
ADYASHANTIThere 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.
ADYASHANTIThe world’s problems are, by and large, human problems-the unavoidable consequence of egoic sleepwalking. If we care to look, all the signs are present to suggest that we are not only sleepwalking, but at times borderline insane as well.
ADYASHANTIGrief, unresisted, is grace. It doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt anymore, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t rip your heart out….In great grief, there’s an incredible love in it. In love there’s a tinge of bitter. In true love.
ADYASHANTITo awaken to the absolute view is profound and transformative, but to awaken from all fixed points of view is the birth of true non-duality. If emptiness cannot dance, it is not true emptiness.
ADYASHANTITrue love has nothing to do with liking someone, agreeing with him or her or being compatible. It is a love of unity, a love of seeing God wearing all the masks, and recognising itself in them all..
ADYASHANTISilence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.
ADYASHANTIFaith is a withholding of conclusion so that you allow what is to arise.
ADYASHANTIThe 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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