Ego is neither positive nor negative. Those are simply concepts that create more boundaries. Ego is just ego, and the disaster of it all is that you, as a spiritual seeker, have been conditioned to think of the ego as bad, as an enemy, as something to be destroyed.
ADYASHANTIYou 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.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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Spirituality does not require that you work hard toward achieving a result in the future as much as it requires you to be fully present.
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Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.
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We must become expressions of, not consumers of, realization.
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I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn’t exist?
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The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears.
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What you run away from owns you. You are the dog on a leash. The most you can do is to tug against the leash.
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As you gently relax into awareness, into listening, the mind’s compulsive contraction around objects will fade. Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.
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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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The Way of Liberation is not a belief system; it is something to be put into practice.
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Whenever you aren’t manipulating your experience, you’re meditating. As soon as you meditate because you think you should, you’re controlling your experience again, and you’ve squeezed all the value out of your meditation.
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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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Eventually, in the state of liberation, meditation will simply become your natural condition.
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If moonlight does not flood the empty night sky and reflect in every drop of water, on every blade of grass, then you are only looking at your own empty dream.
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What gets taken away are all the exterior means we thought we wanted love to come to us. You have the choice to notice the perfect set up to see love is exactly what you are.
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You must choose between your attachments and happiness.
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