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.
ADYASHANTIGrief, 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.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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Truth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is discovered minute to minute or not at all.
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To pause for just a moment and realize that maybe you aren’t who you imagine yourself to be.
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Everybody is free to be as they are. Until the whole world is free to agree with you or disagree with you, until you have given the freedom to everyone to like you or not like you, to love you or hate you,
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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.
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Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.
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The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears.
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A spiritual teaching is a finger pointing toward Reality; it is not Reality itself. To be in a true and mature relationship with a spiritual teaching requires you to apply it, not simply believe in it.
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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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There is, quite literally, nothing to understand.
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If you think that people should be nice to one another, then by all means be nice. But when you project that belief onto the people and the world around you as if it were an objective reality, or worse still.
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What you run away from owns you. You are the dog on a leash. The most you can do is to tug against the leash.
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What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make through personal investigation.
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The 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.
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Only something as insane as human beings would ever asked themselves if ‘I’m good.’ You don’t find oak trees having existential crisis. ‘I feel so rotten about myself. I don’t produce as much acorns as the one next to me.’
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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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