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.
ADYASHANTIMeditation is a dress rehearsal for death.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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One Zen master said, The whole universe is my true personality. This is a very wonderful saying… If you want to see what you truly are, open the window, and everything you see is in fact the expression of your inner reality. Can you embrace all of it?
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Silence and stillness are not states and therefore cannot be produced or created. Silence is the non-state in which all states arise and subside. Silence, stillness and awareness are not states and can never be perceived in their totality as objects.
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When the eternal and the human meet, that’s where love is born — not through escaping our humanity or trying to disappear into transcendence, but through finding that place where they come into union.
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A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.
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Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control.
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We must become expressions of, not consumers of, realization.
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Faith is a withholding of conclusion so that you allow what is to arise.
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The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?
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Meditation is not something restricted to times of formal seated meditation; it is most fundamentally an attitude of being-a resting in and as being. Once you get the feel of it, you will be able to tune into it more and more often during your daily life.
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At any moment, we are either giving humanity the gift of our clarity or our confusion. And that clarity or confusion is affecting the humanity around us, the world around us. It is manifesting. It is taking form.
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You will only lose when you resist reality; you will only struggle when you disagree with what is.
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Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.
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Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.
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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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Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.
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