That there is nothing to support, that the whole ego experience was a flimsy illusion. So you stand alone but are never, never lonely because everywhere you look, all you see is That, and you are That.
ADYASHANTIIt is easy to imagine that the Buddha, the awakened one, is something or somewhere other than here or that awakening to reality will happen sometime other than now. But as long as we continue to think in terms of time we will deceive ourselves.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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Awakening to the truth is a deep realization of what you are as an experience. What is it that is listening? What is it that is feeling? Feel it. Sense it. Welcome it.
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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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When you realize what you are now, the issue of death will solve itself.
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We don’t come to nirvana by avoiding samsara. We don’t come to clarity by avoiding confusion.
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If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume your mind’s clothing with more sooty knowledge.
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What the universe will manifest when you are in alignment with it is a lot more interesting than what you try to manifest
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Life itself is nothing but relationship.
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True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.
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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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If you have any image of what the Truth is, slay it immediately because that’s not it.
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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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To find out that you are empty of emptiness is to die into an aware mystery, which is the source of all existence.
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In a certain sense, if I have an idea about you that I believe, I’ve degraded you. I’ve made you into something very small. This is the way of human beings, this is what we do to each other.
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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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Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.
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