Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.
ADYASHANTIHuman beings have a drive for security and safety, which is often what fuels the spiritual search. This very drive for security and safety is what causes so much misery and confusion.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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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.
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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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As soon as you believe that a label you’ve put on yourself is true, you’ve limited something that is literally limitless, you’ve limited who you are into nothing but a thought.
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So most of us human beings have a very deep underlying conditioning that says that just to be who we are is not OK…….
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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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There’s something more to life than what we see on the surface.
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Freedom and Love arise when you die into the unknown mystery of being.
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If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.
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There’s a great space in which this moment takes place. There’s a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.
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The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. When you start to see the light that you really are, the light waking up in you, the radiance, you realize it has no intention to change you.
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Can you imagine if you really let it in that you are not a problem to be solved in any way? Imagine you knew that anything that would tell you otherwise is just a movement of thought in the mind that says “Whatever is, isn’t the way it is supposed to be.
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Meditation is not a technique to master; it is the highest form of prayer, a naked act of love and effortless surrender into the silent abyss beyond all knowing
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Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.
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In silence a question has great power, because in silence a question will always lead you deeper into your experience. If there is no grounding in silence, a spiritual question is going to lead you into your mind.
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When we really start to take a look at who we think we are, we become very grace prone.
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