True sincerity reveals a powerful form of clarity and discernment that is necessary in order to perceive yourself honestly without flinching or being held captive by your conditioned mind’s judgments and defensiveness.
ADYASHANTIEnlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.
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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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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Every time you claim, “I am this”, you just claimed another sense perception, thought, emotion, or feeling.
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Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.
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The truth is you can’t try to let go. Trying is the opposite of letting go. To let go is to relinquish trying. To let go is much more like to let be.
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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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Go ahead, climb up onto the velvet top of the highest stakes table. Place yourself as the bet. Look God in the eyes and finally, for once in your life, lose.
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So most of us human beings have a very deep underlying conditioning that says that just to be who we are is not OK…….
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If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.
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Most human beings spend their lives battling with opposing inner forces: what they think they should do versus what they are doing; how they feel about themselves versus how they are; whether they think they’re right and worthy or wrong and unworthy.
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The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.
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The joke of it all is that you are looking from your true nature right now without knowing it. If you would stop being fascinated with the contents of your mind, you would experience what I am saying.
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True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.
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True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.
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That there is nothing to support, that the whole ego experience was a flimsy illusion. So you stand alone but are never, never lonely because everywhere you look, all you see is That, and you are That.
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