It is one thing to touch a flame and know it is hot, but quite another to jump into that flame and be consumed by it.
ADYASHANTIHow do I integrate spirituality into my everyday life? Throw out the concept of “spiritual life” and “everyday life.” There is only life, undivided and whole.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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If you were able to give up control absolutely, totally, and completely, then you would be a spiritually free being.
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Have you noticed, with whatever quality of love you have experienced, that when true love arises, it opens up both your mind and emotions? It’s an openness to whatever is happening.
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The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being.
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At first it seems as if begoing follows becoming. But look even closer and you will see that there are only flashes of lightning illuminating the empty sky.
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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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My teacher used to say ‘all love is bittersweet’. All things experienced fully, reveal their opposite.
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When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.
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Love moves without an agenda. It just moves because that is its nature to move.
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Truth is quite literally the only thing that does exist. It is not hidden but in plain view, not lacking but abundantly present.
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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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The moment that you are willing to step outside of tomorrow, outside of needing more time, or having more time, everything becomes possible. And you may finally notice where the Buddha has always been.
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If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.
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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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If you have any image of what the Truth is, slay it immediately because that’s not it.
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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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