It is one thing to touch a flame and know it is hot, but quite another to jump into that flame and be consumed by it.
ADYASHANTIWhat the universe will manifest when you are in alignment with it is a lot more interesting than what you try to manifest
More Adyashanti Quotes
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Stop all doing and be still. Let the fire of stillness burn everything and reveal That which is Openness.
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Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness
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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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One must be willing to stand alone – in the unknown, with no reference to authority or the past or any of one’s conditioning. One must stand where no one has stood before in complete nakedness, innocence, and humility.
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They know deep down that certain things in their lives are working or aren’t working, that certain parts of their lives are functional and others are dysfunctional. But sometimes, as human beings, we don’t want to know what’s not convenient. So we pretend not to know.
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In True Meditation, we’re in the body as a means to transcend it. It is paradoxical that the greatest doorway to the transcendence of form is through form itself.
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To be free of fear is to be full of Love.
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When you abide and accept everything completely and fully, you automatically go beyond.
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Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully.
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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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Love causes us to be deeply connected in an unspoken way. It happens when we’re really available, really open.
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Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn’t exist?
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One doesn’t stay in a state of nirvana by hiding from difficulties. You stay in nirvana by lavishing nirvana on everyone you meet, by giving it away as fast as you receive it.
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Ego is neither positive nor negative. Those are simply concepts that create more boundaries. Ego is just ego, and the disaster of it all is that you, as a spiritual seeker, have been conditioned to think of the ego as bad, as an enemy, as something to be destroyed.
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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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