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A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom.

Adyashanti

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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Ask Intimate Most Power Question Self Spiritual
The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears.
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Accepted Disappear Paradox Resistance
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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Acquire Awakened Eternal Follower Initiator Living Teaching
What you run away from owns you. You are the dog on a leash. The most you can do is to tug against the leash.
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Against Away Dog Leashes Own Run Running Tug
If you have any image of what the Truth is, slay it immediately because that’s not it.
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Image Immediately Truth Worth
You do it anyway. Why? Because you no longer want to suffer. Because you’re willing to be disturbed. You’re willing to be amazed. You’re willing to be surprised.
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Anyway Disturbed Longer Suffer Surprised Willing
To pause for just a moment and realize that maybe you aren’t who you imagine yourself to be.
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Imagine Moment Pause Realize Yourself
Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.
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Awareness Creativity Experience Expression Itself Yield
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
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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Bird Decide Different Outside Really Sound Thought
You’re willing to realize that maybe everything you’ve ever thought about yourself really isn’t true.
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Everything Realize True Willing
Our own intuition of what we’re called to is reality speaking to us individually and perfectly. We have to listen to how the Infinite talks to us and leads us. Reality, Life the Infinite, God, has a way of leading us in just the perfect way, if we will only just listen to it.
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Individually Intuition Perfect Perfectly Reality Speaking
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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Hardest Loving Often Opening Person Reserve Student Time
Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control.
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Control Go Letting Mastering Meditation Real
It has no intention to harmonize. It has no agenda. It just happens. The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda. Everything else will have an agenda.
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Agenda Everything Happen Harmonize Intention Truth
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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Absolute Freedom Normally Nothing Safely Security
Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.
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Death Dress Dresses Meditation Rehearsal
The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.
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Growth Really Requirement Spiritual Yearning
Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.
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Absolute Abyss Awareness Knowing Naturally Potential Return State
My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.
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Awake Awakening Better Dream Meant Shake Speaking
It is in the absolute surrender of all conditions and requirements that Liberation is discovered to be who and what you are. Then the love and wisdom that flows out of you has a liberating effect on others.
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Absolute Condition Effect Liberating Love Requirement Surrender Wisdom
Serving the Truth becomes our life instead of just an isolated event. It takes the abstractness out of spirituality. That’s the opportunity of real spirituality: to be in service to the silence of the heart.
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Abstractness Heart Instead Isolated Opportunity Real Serving Spirituality
When you abide and accept everything completely and fully, you automatically go beyond.
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Abide Accept Automatic Beyond Everything Fully
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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Demand Dream Go Happy Letting Secret Simple Time
The perspective of Love doesn’t leave anybody out. Until your vision and compassion is big enough to include those who oppose you, you are simply contributing to the continuation of destructiveness . The end of separation is the salvation for all.
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Anybody Compassion Enough Include Leave Perspective Until Vision
Silence and stillness are not states and therefore cannot be produced or created. Silence is the non-state in which all states arise and subside. Silence, stillness and awareness are not states and can never be perceived in their totality as objects.
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Created Meditation Mind Produced Silence Stillness
There is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.
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Apart Conscious Consciousness Individual

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