The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.
ADYASHANTIYou will only lose when you resist reality; you will only struggle when you disagree with what is.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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At first it seems as if begoing follows becoming. But look even closer and you will see that there are only flashes of lightning illuminating the empty sky.
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This movement of grasping and aversion gives rise to a sense of a separate ‘me,’ and in turn the sense of ‘me’ strengthens itself this way.
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Usually we think that we are looking at a tree, but the tree is looking at itself through us. Without this instrument, the tree does not get to see itself. We are sensing instruments of the Divine.
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Whatever you resist, persists.
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There’s something more to life than what we see on the surface.
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The realization of Truth and Reality can never be created by the mind … it always comes as a gift of grace. Inquiry clears away misperceptions and illusions, making one available to the movements of grace.
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Nothingness is an absolute infinite potential, not an empty box.
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Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn’t exist?
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The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears.
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You’re willing to realize that maybe everything you’ve ever thought about yourself really isn’t true.
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The teaching must not only consume you, but consume itself as well. All must be burned to ash, and then the ash must be burned. Then, and only then, is the Ultimate realized.
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When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.
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True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.
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To be free of fear is to be full of Love.
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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.
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