If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.
ADYASHANTIWhen emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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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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You lose your separateness, you lose your specialness, you lose the dream you have lived all your life. Eventually you lose everything that your mind has created and awaken to who you truly are: the fullness of freedom, unbound by any identifications, identities, or boundaries.
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Cessation of struggle is like free falling through space without a care in the world.
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Most human beings spend their lives battling with opposing inner forces: what they think they should do versus what they are doing; how they feel about themselves versus how they are; whether they think they’re right and worthy or wrong and unworthy.
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Whatever you can become will ultimately be destroyed. Only what you already are can’t be taken away.
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Every time you claim, “I am this”, you just claimed another sense perception, thought, emotion, or feeling.
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Many Sages have said, “Your world is a dream. You’re living in an illusion.” They’re referring to this world of the mind and the way we believe our thoughts about reality.
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Many people think that it is the function of a spiritual teaching to provide answers to life’s biggest questions, but actually, the opposite is true. The primary task of any good spiritual teaching is not to answer your questions, but to question your answers.
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Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.
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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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A meditative mind is at ease because it’s not trying to acquire anything.
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If you have any image of what the Truth is, slay it immediately because that’s not it.
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There is no security in freedom, at least not in the sense that we normally think of security. This is, of course, why it is so free: there’s nothing there to grab hold of.
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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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Silence is itself the eternal witness without form or attributes. As you rest more profoundly as the witness, all objects take on their natural functionality, and awareness becomes free of the mind’s compulsive contractions and identifications. It returns to its natural non-state of Presence.
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