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.
ADYASHANTIIf we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.
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As soon as you believe that a label you’ve put on yourself is true, you’ve limited something that is literally limitless, you’ve limited who you are into nothing but a thought.
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Go ahead, climb up onto the velvet top of the highest stakes table. Place yourself as the bet. Look God in the eyes and finally, for once in your life, lose.
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The realization of Truth and Reality can never be created by the mind … it always comes as a gift of grace. Inquiry clears away misperceptions and illusions, making one available to the movements of grace.
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Doubt is always accompanied by a pervasive cynicism that unconsciously puts a negative spin on whatever it touches.
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The mind wants to land, to fixate, to hold a concept, but the only way you can be really free is by not fixating. That’s part of true maturity, and it’s one of the hardest things for spiritual people who have had true and powerful revelations to go through.
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My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.
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There is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.
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Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.
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There’s a great space in which this moment takes place. There’s a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.
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Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control.
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I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn’t exist?
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As if it were their job to be nice to you, you put yourself at odds with what is, and suffering will surely follow.
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In order to be truly free, you must desire to know the truth more than you want to feel good. Because, if feeling good is your goal, then as soon as you feel better you will lose interest in what is true.
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What gets taken away are all the exterior means we thought we wanted love to come to us. You have the choice to notice the perfect set up to see love is exactly what you are.
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