Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.
ADYASHANTIThe process of finding the truth may not be a process by which we feel increasingly better and better. It may be a process by which we look at things honestly, sincerely, truthfully, and that may or may not be an easy thing to do.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.
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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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Until we start to see these false perceptions for what they really are, consciousness will be imprisoned within the dream state.
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The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.
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What if you let go of every bit of control and every urge that you have, right down to the most infinitesimal urge to control anything, anywhere, including anything that may be happening with you at this moment?
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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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As you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind’s compulsive control, contractions, and identifications.
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We think there’s someplace other than here to get to—that’s what drives the whole pursuit.
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Grief, unresisted, is grace. It doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt anymore, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t rip your heart out….In great grief, there’s an incredible love in it. In love there’s a tinge of bitter. In true love.
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The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears.
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Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.
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As you gently relax into awareness, into listening, the mind’s compulsive contraction around objects will fade. Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.
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When you rest deeply in the Unknown without trying to escape, your experience becomes very vast. As the experience of the Unknown deepens, your boundaries begin to dissolve. You realize, not just intellectually but on a deep level, that you have no idea who or what you are.
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The beautiful thing about the truth of being is that it’s so unimaginably immediate.
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When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are. When I have a thought about you, that’s something I’ve created. I’ve turned you into an idea.
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