Feel this moment, see it with a willingness to experience it deeply, whether it be good, bad, or indifferent. Emotionally and feelingly be fully present, right here, vulnerable, with your heart. Just be present. Don’t live from your conditioned mind, live from unconditional truth.
ADYASHANTITrue meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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The world’s problems are, by and large, human problems-the unavoidable consequence of egoic sleepwalking. If we care to look, all the signs are present to suggest that we are not only sleepwalking, but at times borderline insane as well.
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Stop all doing and be still. Let the fire of stillness burn everything and reveal That which is Openness.
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Trying to maintain a pleasant state and avoid an unpleasant state is actually the cause of sorrow. When you stop resisting, you see that what seems frightening is actually the absolute beauty of reality.
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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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Let go of all ideas and images in your mind, they come and go and aren’t even generated by you. So why pay so much attention to your imagination when reality is for the realizing right now?
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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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Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being, pure consciousness. This is actually the very substance of your own self and being.
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They 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.
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A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.
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Love causes us to be deeply connected in an unspoken way. It happens when we’re really available, really open.
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Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.
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To be free of fear is to be full of Love.
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Gratitude is the appreciation of what is, of life, of existence, of anybody and anything, for just the way it is.
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Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.
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We realize–often quite suddenly–that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who we are. It doesn’t define us, it has no center.
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