In the heart of a human being, emptiness becomes love. When we touch that Source, instantly the love is present. Literally, the divine becomes human and the human becomes divine.
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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The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being.
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Life becomes almost magical. The illusion of the “me” is no longer in the way. Life begins to flow, and you never know where it will take you.
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Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.
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Sincere and committed now, with absolute honesty and willingness to uncover and let go of any illusions that come between you and the realization of Reality.
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There’s something more to life than what we see on the surface.
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What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make through personal investigation.
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Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control. This is meditation. Anything else is actually a form of concentration. Meditation and concentration are two different things. Concentration is a discipline.
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We think there’s someplace other than here to get to—that’s what drives the whole pursuit.
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Silence and stillness are not states and therefore cannot be produced or created. Silence is the non-state in which all states arise and subside. Silence, stillness and awareness are not states and can never be perceived in their totality as objects.
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Truth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is discovered minute to minute or not at all.
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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.
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Refuse to disconnect from love and every relationship will be totally transformed; even the relationship with yourself.
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Enlightenment is the natural state of consciousness, the innocent state of consciousness, that state which is uncontaminated by the movement of thought, uncontaminated by control or manipulation of mind.
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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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The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?
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