To see things as you see them or to see things differently—until you have given the whole world its freedom—you’ll never have your freedom.
ADYASHANTIYou must choose between your attachments and happiness.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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The world’s problems are, by and large, human problems-the unavoidable consequence of egoic sleepwalking. If we care to look, all the signs are present to suggest that we are not only sleepwalking, but at times borderline insane as well.
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Life itself is nothing but relationship.
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True love has nothing to do with liking someone, agreeing with him or her or being compatible. It is a love of unity, a love of seeing God wearing all the masks, and recognising itself in them all..
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Spirituality does not require that you work hard toward achieving a result in the future as much as it requires you to be fully present.
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This awake silence is available to anyone in this moment. All you have to do is stop using your mind to look for it. It doesn’t know where to find it.
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Concentration is a way in which we are actually directing or guiding or controlling our experience. Meditation is letting go of control, letting go of guiding our experience in any way whatsoever. The foundation of True Meditation is that we are letting go of control.
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The Truth doesn’t answer anything. The Truth IS everything!
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The truth is you can’t try to let go. Trying is the opposite of letting go. To let go is to relinquish trying. To let go is much more like to let be.
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Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.
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One doesn’t stay in a state of nirvana by hiding from difficulties. You stay in nirvana by lavishing nirvana on everyone you meet, by giving it away as fast as you receive it.
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Ego is the movement of the mind toward objects of perception in the form of grasping, and away from objects in the form of aversion. This fundamentally is all the ego is.
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Relaxing into not knowing is almost like surrendering into a big, comfortable chair; you just fall into a field of possibility.
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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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There is, quite literally, nothing to understand.
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There’s something more to life than what we see on the surface.
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