Whatever you resist, persists.
ADYASHANTIWhen you begin to become conscious, more aware, when your eyes begin to open, the first thing you see is how deluded you are and how much you’re holding onto that which makes you suffer. This is, in many ways, the most important step: Are you willing to be aware?
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Many people think that it is the function of a spiritual teaching to provide answers to life’s biggest questions, but actually, the opposite is true. The primary task of any good spiritual teaching is not to answer your questions, but to question your answers.
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When we’re in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose.
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Freedom is a state of complete and absolute insecurity and not knowing. So, in seeking security and safety, you actually distance yourself from the freedom you want.
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There is, quite literally, nothing to understand.
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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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You must choose between your attachments and happiness.
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When someone tells you, ‘I love you,’ and then you feel, ‘Oh, I must be worthy after all,’ that’s an illusion. That’s not true. Or someone says, ‘I hate you,’ and you think, ‘Oh, God, I knew it; I’m not very worthy,’ that’s not true either.
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Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.
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A spiritual teaching is a finger pointing toward Reality; it is not Reality itself. To be in a true and mature relationship with a spiritual teaching requires you to apply it, not simply believe in it.
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Imagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.
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When you see that everything is a momentary display of reality, then you stop resisting it. Resistance hurts, only every single time. Love is the state of nonresistance.
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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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True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.
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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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When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable. It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we are not relating from the truth. It’s a beautiful pointer. It never fails.
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