[And yet] it is astounding how completely we humans define ourselves by the content of our minds, feelings, and history.
ADYASHANTIThe important thing is allowing the whole world to wake up. Part of allowing the whole world to wake up is recognizing that the whole world is free,
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Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, 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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Whatever you resist, persists.
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The question of being is everything. Nothing could be more important or consequential-n othing where the stakes run so high.
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Freedom is a state of complete and absolute insecurity and not knowing. So, in seeking security and safety, you actually distance yourself from the freedom you want.
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What would happen if you were to allow everything to be exactly as it is? If you gave up the need for control, and instead embraced the whole of your experience in each moment that arose?
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You’re willing to realize that maybe everything you’ve ever thought about yourself really isn’t true.
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The proof of the depth and embodiment of your realization will be seen in your love relationship. That’s where the proof is in the pudding. If it all collapses in your relationship, you have some work to do. And people do have a lot of difficulties in their relationships.
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It is one thing to touch a flame and know it is hot, but quite another to jump into that flame and be consumed by it.
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So most of us human beings have a very deep underlying conditioning that says that just to be who we are is not OK…….
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To awaken to the absolute view is profound and transformative, but to awaken from all fixed points of view is the birth of true non-duality. If emptiness cannot dance, it is not true emptiness.
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The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.
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Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.
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Thoughts are just moving through consciousness. They have no power. Nothing has reality until you reach it, grab it, and somehow impregnate it with the power of belief.
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Right now you can allow yourself to experience a very simple sense of not knowing – not knowing what or who you are, not knowing what this moment is, not knowing anything.
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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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