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.
ADYASHANTIThey know deep down that certain things in their lives are working or aren’t working, that certain parts of their lives are functional and others are dysfunctional. But sometimes, as human beings, we don’t want to know what’s not convenient. So we pretend not to know.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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When you discover yourself to be nothing but Freedom, you stop setting up conditions and requirements that need to be satisfied in order for you to be happy.
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Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.
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Freedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom.
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Our yearning for truth actually comes from truth.
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What is really important you can’t understand with your mind.
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Until we start to see these false perceptions for what they really are, consciousness will be imprisoned within the dream state.
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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.
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All delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we’re talking to ourselves and then believing what we are saying.
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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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We must become expressions of, not consumers of, realization.
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The question of being is everything. Nothing could be more important or consequential-n othing where the stakes run so high.
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There is, quite literally, nothing to understand.
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Inherent in the impulse to be free, is insecurity. The impulse to be free comes from outside of the mind, and because of this, it makes the mind feel very insecure.
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It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the rabid dissatisfaction with living anything less than a fully authentic life.
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A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom.
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