When we’re in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose.
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 were able to give up control absolutely, totally, and completely, then you would be a spiritually free being.
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The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.
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Nothingness is an absolute infinite potential, not an empty box.
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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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Deep down we all suspect that something is very wrong with the way we perceive life but we try very, very hard not to notice it. And the way we remain blind to our frightful condition is through an obsessive and pathological denial of being.
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It authenticates itself. Something inside us knows. This…is what has been sought for, longed for, looked for. This is it. Usually, it’s not what we expected.
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Ego is neither positive nor negative. Those are simply concepts that create more boundaries. Ego is just ego, and the disaster of it all is that you, as a spiritual seeker, have been conditioned to think of the ego as bad, as an enemy, as something to be destroyed.
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Meditation is not something restricted to times of formal seated meditation; it is most fundamentally an attitude of being-a resting in and as being. Once you get the feel of it, you will be able to tune into it more and more often during your daily life.
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When a group of people come together as a response to that kind of inward call, it creates a very powerful environment, where truth is held in the highest esteem and the reality of our being responds to that deepest intention.
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Now don’t think that awakening is the end. Awakening is the end of seeking, the end of the seeker, but it is the beginning of a life lived from your true nature.
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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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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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Most human beings have an imprinting that if they’re real, if they’re honest, somebody’s not gonna like it. And they won’t be able to control their environment if they tell the truth.
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The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.
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A meditative mind is at ease because it’s not trying to acquire anything.
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