The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.
ADYASHANTIThe truth is that you already are what you are seeking. You are looking for God with his eyes. I suggest you ask, “What’s ultimately behind this set of eyes?” Turn around to see what is looking.
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If you tell yourself a sad story, the body reacts to that. And if you tell yourself a self-aggrandizing story, the body feels puffed up, confident. But when you realize it’s all stories, there can be a vast waking up out of the mind, out of the dream.
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Freedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom.
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What you run away from owns you. You are the dog on a leash. The most you can do is to tug against the leash.
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The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.
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As I often tell my students, the person you’ll have the hardest time opening to and truly loving without reserve is yourself. Once you can do that, you can love the whole universe unconditionally.
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If you resist confusion,you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them.
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You will only lose when you resist reality; you will only struggle when you disagree with what is.
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Feel your way into what I am saying rather than thinking about it. Only a self-concept looks and longs for God. Drop your self-concept and there is only God meeting God. Enlightenment is the restoration of cosmic humor.
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This one question-‘What do I know for certain?’-is tremendously powerful. When you look deeply into this question, it actually destroys your world. It destroys your whole sense of self, and it’s meant to.
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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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Awareness isn’t something we own; awareness isn’t something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.
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When you inquire ‘Who am I?’ if you are honest, you’ll notice that it takes you right back to silence instantly. The brain doesn’t have an answer, so all of a sudden there is silence.
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True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.
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Imagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.
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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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