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.
ADYASHANTIOur own intuition of what we’re called to is reality speaking to us individually and perfectly. We have to listen to how the Infinite talks to us and leads us. Reality, Life the Infinite, God, has a way of leading us in just the perfect way, if we will only just listen to it.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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The you who is chasing enlightenment will never become enlightened. Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach,
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What is really important you can’t understand with your mind.
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The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.
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There’s a fierceness about life that calls for a fierceness to not anxiously solve it but to allow it to transform you.
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At a certain point we need to grow up; we need to look inside ourselves for our inner guidance. There are things most human beings know; they just don’t want to know them.
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It is in the absolute surrender of all conditions and requirements that Liberation is discovered to be who and what you are. Then the love and wisdom that flows out of you has a liberating effect on others.
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We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world.
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As you gently relax into awareness, into listening, the mind’s compulsive contraction around objects will fade. Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.
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With this love you can feel the walls of opposition come down naturally in the acknowledgement of deep connection. Not only do the walls of opposition fall, but love is felt for every human being and for life itself.
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Truth is quite literally the only thing that does exist. It is not hidden but in plain view, not lacking but abundantly present.
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Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.
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Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.
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When we’re in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose.
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If we know who and what we are very thoroughly, we will express and manifest that in what we do. It is all very simple.
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The process of finding the truth may not be a process by which we feel increasingly better and better. It may be a process by which we look at things honestly, sincerely, truthfully, and that may or may not be an easy thing to do.
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