True 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..
ADYASHANTIEmbrace suffering, and you transform your relationship with what causes you to suffer, as well as your relationship with suffering itself.
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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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If you tell yourself a sad story, the body reacts to that. And if you tell yourself a self-aggrandizing story, the body feels puffed up, confident. But when you realize it’s all stories, there can be a vast waking up out of the mind, out of the dream.
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Life itself is nothing but relationship.
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Take the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you.
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True Meditation is the space in which everything gets revealed, everything gets seen, everything gets experienced. And as such, it lets go of itself. We don’t even let go. It lets go of itself.
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Relaxing into not knowing is almost like surrendering into a big, comfortable chair; you just fall into a field of possibility.
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You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.
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Many spiritual people are involved in a radical denial of what is happening. They want to transcend it, get rid of it, get out of it, get away from it. There’s nothing wrong with that feeling, but the approach doesn’t work because it’s escapism in spiritual clothing.
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To remain unconscious of being is to remain asleep to our own reality and therefore asleep to reality at large. The choice is simple: awaken to being or sleep an endless sleep.
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This world is not my concern; it is myself.
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You’ll have more love than you know what to do with. Whatever you are inside, you receive a thousandfold on the outside.
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A few minutes ago, you knew who you were-you had a history and a personality-but from this place of not knowing, you question all of that.
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Freedom and Love arise when you die into the unknown mystery of being.
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When you begin to become conscious, more aware, when your eyes begin to open, the first thing you see is how deluded you are and how much you’re holding onto that which makes you suffer. This is, in many ways, the most important step: Are you willing to be aware?
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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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