Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.
ADYASHANTIThere’s something more to life than what we see on the surface.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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When you inquire ‘Who am I?’ if you are honest, you’ll notice that it takes you right back to silence instantly. The brain doesn’t have an answer, so all of a sudden there is silence.
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Once again, we find ourselves back in the unknown – not in the idea of the unknown, but in the lived reality of it. It’s the mind humbled, on its knees, with bare feet and free of the known.
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True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.
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Feel your way into what I am saying rather than thinking about it. Only a self-concept looks and longs for God. Drop your self-concept and there is only God meeting God. Enlightenment is the restoration of cosmic humor.
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The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.
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Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.
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Every time you claim, “I am this”, you just claimed another sense perception, thought, emotion, or feeling.
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Fear is very often a part of the spiritual path. When people sit down and meditate it’s not at all uncommon for fear to arise at some point.
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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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Until we start to see these false perceptions for what they really are, consciousness will be imprisoned within the dream state.
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One Zen master said, The whole universe is my true personality. This is a very wonderful saying… If you want to see what you truly are, open the window, and everything you see is in fact the expression of your inner reality. Can you embrace all of it?
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The perspective of Love doesn’t leave anybody out. Until your vision and compassion is big enough to include those who oppose you, you are simply contributing to the continuation of destructiveness . The end of separation is the salvation for all.
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The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but it does change.
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There is, quite literally, nothing to understand.
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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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