To accept the degree of surrender needed to literally let go of all experience and all self-reference. Even in great revelations, there is almost always something that wants to claim, “I am this.”
ADYASHANTITo remain unconscious of being is to remain asleep to our own reality and therefore asleep to reality at large. The choice is simple: awaken to being or sleep an endless sleep.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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The world’s problems are, by and large, human problems-the unavoidable consequence of egoic sleepwalking. If we care to look, all the signs are present to suggest that we are not only sleepwalking, but at times borderline insane as well.
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We can’t have an idea of what life should look like, about how spirit should be manifesting as our very life, because all of those ideas would just be products of the past – something we learned, imagined, or desired.
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The beautiful thing about the truth of being is that it’s so unimaginably immediate.
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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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Freedom and Love arise when you die into the unknown mystery of being.
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When someone says, ‘I love you,’ he is telling you about himself, not you. When someone says, ‘I hate you,’ she is telling you about herself, not you. World views are self views-literally.
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Our yearning for truth actually comes from truth.
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No one can give you the strength of character necessary… Only you can find that passion within that burns with an integrity that will not settle for anything less than the Truth.
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Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being, pure consciousness. This is actually the very substance of your own self and being.
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The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?
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Life sustains itself. Let go of the ego and life takes care of itself through you.
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The 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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Truth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is discovered minute to minute or not at all.
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We must become expressions of, not consumers of, realization.
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Usually we think that we are looking at a tree, but the tree is looking at itself through us. Without this instrument, the tree does not get to see itself. We are sensing instruments of the Divine.
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