Meditation is a teaching which offers you the possibility of breaking free of this egoic state of consciousness and coming into a whole new realization of who and what you truly are. And all this starts with the willingness to question.
ADYASHANTI[And yet] it is astounding how completely we humans define ourselves by the content of our minds, feelings, and history.
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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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Grace is something that comes to us when we somehow find ourselves completely available, when we become openhearted and open-minded, and are willing to entertain the possibility that we may not know what we think we know.
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You’ll have more love than you know what to do with. Whatever you are inside, you receive a thousandfold on the outside.
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If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.
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Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?
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At each moment we are expressing what we know ourselves to be. If we know ourselves very little we will express and manifest that unconsciousness of our true nature.
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Nobody can give us what we really already are. Wouldn’t it be terrible if somebody could give you what you really are? …’cause if they could give it to you, they could take it away.
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Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.
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Imagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.
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Take the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you.
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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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This simply strengthens the ego. In fact, such conclusions arise from the ego itself. Pay no attention to them. Don’t go to war with yourself; simply inquire into who you are.
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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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There’s a fierceness about life that calls for a fierceness to not anxiously solve it but to allow it to transform you.
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The separate self is just the conglomeration of these opposing forces. When the self drops away, inner division drops away with it.
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