Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.
ADYASHANTIGrace is something that comes to us when we somehow find ourselves completely available, when we become openhearted and open-minded, and are willing to entertain the possibility that we may not know what we think we know.
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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If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.
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As I often tell my students, the person you’ll have the hardest time opening to and truly loving without reserve is yourself. Once you can do that, you can love the whole universe unconditionally.
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The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda.
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Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.
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The joke of it all is that you are looking from your true nature right now without knowing it. If you would stop being fascinated with the contents of your mind, you would experience what I am saying.
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Completion comes when we not just wake up from all form, from all identification, but when love causes us to re-embrace it all.
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Nothingness is an absolute infinite potential, not an empty box.
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Radiantly nothing. Absolutely and eternally zero. Emptiness that is awake. Emptiness that is full. Emptiness that is everything.
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In the same vein, my teachings are not meant to acquire followers or imitators, but to awaken beings to eternal truth and thus to awakened life and living.
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As long as you perceive that anyone is holding you back, you have not taken full responsibility for your own liberation. Liberation means that you stand free of making demands on others and life to make you happy.
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True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.
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It is easy to imagine that the Buddha, the awakened one, is something or somewhere other than here or that awakening to reality will happen sometime other than now. But as long as we continue to think in terms of time we will deceive ourselves.
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Let go of all ideas and images in your mind, they come and go and aren’t even generated by you. So why pay so much attention to your imagination when reality is for the realizing right now?
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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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