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The you who is chasing enlightenment will never become enlightened. Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach,

Adyashanti

Retreat is a response to the call of the heart-that call which beckons us toward reality, to the truth of our being, to that which is truly sane, really real and liberating …
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Beckon Being Heart Powerful Real Reality Response Retreat Toward Truth
Grief, 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.
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Anymore Grace Grief Heart Hurt Out Rip Teacher Unresisted
Now don’t think that awakening is the end. Awakening is the end of seeking, the end of the seeker, but it is the beginning of a life lived from your true nature.
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Awakening End Life Seek Seeker Thinking
You think that enlightenment is something other than what is happening right now. This is your primary mistake.
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Enlightenment Happening Mistake Now Primary Right Thinking
When you inquire ‘Who am I?’ if you are honest, you’ll notice that it takes you right back to silence instantly. The brain doesn’t have an answer, so all of a sudden there is silence.
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Answer Brain Honest Inquire Instantly Notice Silence
Whenever you aren’t manipulating your experience, you’re meditating. As soon as you meditate because you think you should, you’re controlling your experience again, and you’ve squeezed all the value out of your meditation.
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Experience Manipulating Meditating Meditation Think Thinking
You come to see that everything you think you know about yourself, everything you think you know about the world, is based on assumptions, beliefs, and opinions-things that you believe because you were taught or told they were true.
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Assumption Based Belief Believe Everything Know Thing
We think there’s someplace other than here to get to—that’s what drives the whole pursuit.
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Pursuit Self Someplace Think Thinking Truth
Stop all doing and be still. Let the fire of stillness burn everything and reveal That which is Openness.
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Doing Everything Fire Openness Reveal Still Stop
My teacher used to say ‘all love is bittersweet’. All things experienced fully, reveal their opposite.
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Bittersweet Experienced Opposite Reveal Teacher Used
Most spiritual seekers move away from this insecurity by seeking and striving for a distant spiritual goal. That’s how they avoid feeling insecure.
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Feeling Insecure Most Move Seeker Spiritual Striving
Grace is something that comes to us when we somehow find ourselves completely available, when we become openhearted and open-minded, and are willing to entertain the possibility that we may not know what we think we know.
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Available Completely Grace May Ourselves Thinking
All you have to do is say “yes.” Don’t make some big project out of it. Don’t make some big deal out of it. Just say “yes.” You don’t even know what it means to say “yes,” but you say it anyway. You’ll never know what it means to say “yes,” but you do it anyway.
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Big Deal Freedom Love Mean Say Trust Yes
Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.
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Awareness Being Cease Comprise Pure Pursuit Recognize
When we’re in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose.
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Bring Feel Life Moment Purpose True
We must become expressions of, not consumers of, realization.
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Become Consumer Expression Must Realization

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