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All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.

Adyashanti

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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Attitude Fundamentally Meditation Restricted Something Tune
It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the rabid dissatisfaction with living anything less than a fully authentic life.
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Bliss Enlightenment Grantor Happiness Pursuit Reality State Yearning
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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Chasing Distant Enlightenment Instead Arriving never Reach Toward
Spirituality does not require that you work hard toward achieving a result in the future as much as it requires you to be fully present.
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Achieving Future Go Hard Honesty Letting Require Spirituality Work
Love causes us to be deeply connected in an unspoken way. It happens when we’re really available, really open.
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Available Cause Connected Deeply Happen Open Really Unspoken Way
As if some dreadful fate would overcome us if we were to face the pure light of truth and lay bare our fearful clinging to illusion.
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Bare Dreadful Fearful Illusion Light Overcome Pure Some
Reality is always true to itself. When you’re in harmony with it, you experience bliss. As soon as you are not in harmony with it, you experience pain. This is the law of the universe; it is the way things are. Nobody gets out of this law.
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Always Bliss Experience Harmony Itself Limit Pain Reality Stress
You think that enlightenment is something other than what is happening right now. This is your primary mistake.
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Enlightenment Happening Mistake Now Primary Right Thinking
The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being.
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Authentic Being Deeply Honest Mystery Positive Thinking
Grief, unresisted, is grace. It doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt anymore, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t rip your heart out….In great grief, there’s an incredible love in it. In love there’s a tinge of bitter. In true love.
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Anymore Grace Grief Heart Hurt Out Rip Teacher Unresisted
One Zen master said, The whole universe is my true personality. This is a very wonderful saying… If you want to see what you truly are, open the window, and everything you see is in fact the expression of your inner reality. Can you embrace all of it?
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Expression Master Personality Reality Saying Universe Wanted Wonderful
The silence inside of you is the sound of your knowledge collapsing. Remember, it is you who said, ‘I want to be free.’
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Collapsing Inside Knowledge Remember Silence Sound Want Wanted
Retreat is a response to the call of the heart-that call which beckons us toward reality, to the truth of our being, to that which is truly sane, really real and liberating …
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Beckon Being Heart Powerful Real Reality Response Retreat Toward Truth
In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself. Primordial awareness is the source in which all objects arise and subside.
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Awareness Knowing Listening Meditate Meditation Object Primordial Resting
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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Door Fate God Hard Light Perceive Something Try Trying Wrong
Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.
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Being End Enlightenment More Natural Nothing State

All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.

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All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.

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