Be a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don’t expect it to be easy or even noticed.
ADYASHANTIEventually, in the state of liberation, meditation will simply become your natural condition.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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Go ahead, climb up onto the velvet top of the highest stakes table. Place yourself as the bet. Look God in the eyes and finally, for once in your life, lose.
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The Buddha’s insight into the middle way is not simply about a balance between extremes. This conventional understanding misses the deeper revelation of the middle way as being the very nature of unexcelled enlightenment.
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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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Freedom and Love arise when you die into the unknown mystery of being.
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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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The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but it does change.
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True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.
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[And yet] it is astounding how completely we humans define ourselves by the content of our minds, feelings, and history.
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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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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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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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As soon as the mind pulls out an agenda and decides what needs to change, that’s unreality. Life doesn’t need to decide who’s right and who’s wrong. Life doesn’t need to know the “right” way to go because it’s going there anyway.
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My teacher used to say ‘all love is bittersweet’. All things experienced fully, reveal their opposite.
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You come to see that everything you think you know about yourself, everything you think you know about the world, is based on assumptions, beliefs, and opinions-things that you believe because you were taught or told they were true.
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When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.
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