The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.
ADYASHANTIWhen emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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The mind may accept or deny that you are awareness, but either way it can’t really understand. It cannot comprehend. Thought cannot comprehend what is beyond thought.
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Can you imagine if you really let it in that you are not a problem to be solved in any way? Imagine you knew that anything that would tell you otherwise is just a movement of thought in the mind that says “Whatever is, isn’t the way it is supposed to be.
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If you filter my words through any tradition or ‘-ism’, you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is not static; it is alive. It cannot be put into concepts and be understood by the mind.
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Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.
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We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world.
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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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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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Thoughts in your head are really no different than the sound of a bird outside. It is just that you decide that they are more or less relevant.
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There is, quite literally, nothing to understand.
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There is a very Simple Secret to being happy. Just let go of your ‘demand’ on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering.
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There’s a great space in which this moment takes place. There’s a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.
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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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We don’t come to nirvana by avoiding samsara. We don’t come to clarity by avoiding confusion.
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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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Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.
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