The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.
ADYASHANTIWhat will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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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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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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Nothingness is an absolute infinite potential, not an empty box.
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Doubt is always accompanied by a pervasive cynicism that unconsciously puts a negative spin on whatever it touches.
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Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.
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Life itself is nothing but relationship.
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Self-inquiry is a spiritually induced form of wintertime. It’s not about looking for a right answer so much as stripping away and letting you see what is not necessary, what you can do without, what you are without your leaves.
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True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.
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All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.
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The 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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When someone tells you, ‘I love you,’ and then you feel, ‘Oh, I must be worthy after all,’ that’s an illusion. That’s not true. Or someone says, ‘I hate you,’ and you think, ‘Oh, God, I knew it; I’m not very worthy,’ that’s not true either.
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As you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind’s compulsive control, contractions, and identifications.
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You lose your separateness, you lose your specialness, you lose the dream you have lived all your life. Eventually you lose everything that your mind has created and awaken to who you truly are: the fullness of freedom, unbound by any identifications, identities, or boundaries.
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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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Usually we think that we are looking at a tree, but the tree is looking at itself through us. Without this instrument, the tree does not get to see itself. We are sensing instruments of the Divine.
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