A spiritual teaching is a finger pointing toward Reality; it is not Reality itself. To be in a true and mature relationship with a spiritual teaching requires you to apply it, not simply believe in it.
ADYASHANTIYou are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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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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We need to see each moment of apparent bondage as an invitation to freedom. Then it becomes an act of love, an act of compassion, to stop running away.
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The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.
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Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.
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You are the doorway to the infinite.
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Life itself is nothing but relationship.
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When you rest deeply in the Unknown without trying to escape, your experience becomes very vast. As the experience of the Unknown deepens, your boundaries begin to dissolve. You realize, not just intellectually but on a deep level, that you have no idea who or what you are.
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It simply means that if this desire to feel good is stronger than the yearning to see, know, and experience Truth, then this desire will always be distorting the perception of what is Real, while corrupting one’s deepest integrity.
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Nothingness is an absolute infinite potential, not an empty box.
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As you peel it back, in the heart of nothing, that is love. You are what you are seeking. Life is a set up so that each of us can actually see in ourselves the truth for ourselves.
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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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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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When you get out of the driver’s seat, you find that life can drive itself, that actually life has always been driving itself. When you get out of the driver’s seat, it can drive itself so much easier-it can flow in ways you never imagined.
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My teacher used to say ‘all love is bittersweet’. All things experienced fully, reveal their opposite.
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The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda.
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