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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?

Adyashanti

Whatever you resist, persists.
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Persist Resist Whatever
The aim of my teaching is enlightenment, awakening from the dream state of separateness into the reality of the One. In short, my teaching is focused on realizing what you are.
ADYASHANTI

Awakening Dream Enlightenment Reality Separateness Teaching
True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.
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Direction Goal Meditation Prayer Pure Silent Surrender Wordless
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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Experience Manipulating Meditating Meditation Think Thinking
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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Burning Clothing Fire Intend Leave Mind Perfume Prefer
Feel this moment, see it with a willingness to experience it deeply, whether it be good, bad, or indifferent. Emotionally and feelingly be fully present, right here, vulnerable, with your heart. Just be present. Don’t live from your conditioned mind, live from unconditional truth.
ADYASHANTI

Bad Emotional Feel Good Heart Indifferent Mind Moment Vulnerable
The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. When you start to see the light that you really are, the light waking up in you, the radiance, you realize it has no intention to change you.
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Anything Consciousness Light Mind Running Start
Self-inquiry is a spiritually induced form of wintertime. It’s not about looking for a right answer so much as stripping away and letting you see what is not necessary, what you can do without, what you are without your leaves.
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Answer Inquiry Looking Right Self Spirituality Stripping Wintertime
My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.
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Awake Awakening Better Dream Meant Shake Speaking
My teacher used to say ‘all love is bittersweet’. All things experienced fully, reveal their opposite.
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Bittersweet Experienced Opposite Reveal Teacher Used
The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.
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Emptiness Intricacies Love Most Spiritual Theologies Thing Truth
The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.
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Awakening Barrier Belief Biggest Rare Something
In True Meditation, we’re in the body as a means to transcend it. It is paradoxical that the greatest doorway to the transcendence of form is through form itself.
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Doorway Greatest Mean Meditation Paradoxical True Yoga
When we really start to take a look at who we think we are… we start to see that while we may have various thoughts, beliefs, and identities, they do not individually or collectively tell us who we are.
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Feeling Look Mind Start Think Thinking Thought Various
All delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we’re talking to ourselves and then believing what we are saying.
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Based Believe Delusion Mind Ourselves Talking
You will only lose when you resist reality; you will only struggle when you disagree with what is.
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Disagree Lose Loses Reality Resist Struggle

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