True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.
ADYASHANTIOne 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.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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If we know who and what we are very thoroughly, we will express and manifest that in what we do. It is all very simple.
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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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The truth is you can’t try to let go. Trying is the opposite of letting go. To let go is to relinquish trying. To let go is much more like to let be.
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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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Meditation is not something restricted to times of formal seated meditation; it is most fundamentally an attitude of being-a resting in and as being. Once you get the feel of it, you will be able to tune into it more and more often during your daily life.
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The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. When you start to see the light that you really are, the light waking up in you, the radiance, you realize it has no intention to change you.
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When you let go of the egoic self what you’re getting in exchange is the whole universe.
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When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what’s left? A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are.
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Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.
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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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This world is not my concern; it is myself.
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The question of being is everything. Nothing could be more important or consequential-n othing where the stakes run so high.
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The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.
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There is a very Simple Secret to being happy. Just let go of your ‘demand’ on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering.
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You will only lose when you resist reality; you will only struggle when you disagree with what is.
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The 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.
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My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.
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To find out that you are empty of emptiness is to die into an aware mystery, which is the source of all existence.
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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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As long as you perceive that anyone is holding you back, you have not taken full responsibility for your own liberation. Liberation means that you stand free of making demands on others and life to make you happy.
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When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable. It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we are not relating from the truth. It’s a beautiful pointer. It never fails.
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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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Only 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.’
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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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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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We realize–often quite suddenly–that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who we are. It doesn’t define us, it has no center.
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