Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.
ADYASHANTIEventually, in the state of liberation, meditation will simply become your natural condition.
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We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world.
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The Truth doesn’t answer anything. The Truth IS everything!
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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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What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.
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A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom.
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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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Love causes us to be deeply connected in an unspoken way. It happens when we’re really available, really open.
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You can’t look at what’s looking. You can’t think about that which is prior to thought.
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Whatever you want, be it. If you want connection, it’s because you are connection. Be what you want, and then it happens all around you. If you want love, be it.
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When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.
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Your life, all of your life, is your path to awakening. By resisting or not dealing with its challenges, you stay asleep to Reality. Pay attention to what life is trying to reveal to you. Say yes to its fierce, ruthless, and loving grace.
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The door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of that uncertainty and all wisdom will be yours.
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The mind may accept or deny that you are awareness, but either way it can’t really understand. It cannot comprehend. Thought cannot comprehend what is beyond thought.
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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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When someone tells you, ‘I love you,’ and then you feel, ‘Oh, I must be worthy after all,’ that’s an illusion. That’s not true. Or someone says, ‘I hate you,’ and you think, ‘Oh, God, I knew it; I’m not very worthy,’ that’s not true either.
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