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.
ADYASHANTIEventually, in the state of liberation, meditation will simply become your natural condition.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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When you let go of the egoic self what you’re getting in exchange is the whole universe.
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We need to see each moment of apparent bondage as an invitation to freedom. Then it becomes an act of love, an act of compassion, to stop running away.
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Whatever you can become will ultimately be destroyed. Only what you already are can’t be taken away.
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The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.
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The most difficult thing for spiritual seekers to do is to stop struggling, striving, seeking, and searching. Why? Because in the absence of struggle you don’t know who you are; you lose your boundaries.
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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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To find out that you are empty of emptiness is to die into an aware mystery, which is the source of all existence.
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You’ll have more love than you know what to do with. Whatever you are inside, you receive a thousandfold on the outside.
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Feel your way into what I am saying rather than thinking about it. Only a self-concept looks and longs for God. Drop your self-concept and there is only God meeting God. Enlightenment is the restoration of cosmic humor.
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Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.
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With this love you can feel the walls of opposition come down naturally in the acknowledgement of deep connection. Not only do the walls of opposition fall, but love is felt for every human being and for life itself.
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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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Eventually, in the state of liberation, meditation will simply become your natural condition.
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As you peel it back, in the heart of nothing, that is love. You are what you are seeking. Life is a set up so that each of us can actually see in ourselves the truth for ourselves.
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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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