Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier.
ADYASHANTIReal meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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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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Whatever you can become will ultimately be destroyed. Only what you already are can’t be taken away.
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If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume your mind’s clothing with more sooty knowledge.
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Space and stillness is the light that illuminates the beauty of our soul’s being.
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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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Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.
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A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom.
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We must leave the entire collection of conditioned thought behind and let ourselves be led by the inner thread of silence into the unknown, beyond where all paths end, to that place where we go innocently or not at all, not once but continually.
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Your life, all of your life, is your path to awakening. By resisting or not dealing with its challenges, you stay asleep to Reality. Pay attention to what life is trying to reveal to you. Say yes to its fierce, ruthless, and loving grace.
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This moment in which you experience stillness is every moment. Don’t let the mind seduce you into the past or future. Stay in the moment, and dare to consider that you can be free now.
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In True Meditation, we’re in the body as a means to transcend it. It is paradoxical that the greatest doorway to the transcendence of form is through form itself.
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When we really start to take a look at who we think we are… we start to see that while we may have various thoughts, beliefs, and identities, they do not individually or collectively tell us who we are.
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When a group of people come together as a response to that kind of inward call, it creates a very powerful environment, where truth is held in the highest esteem and the reality of our being responds to that deepest intention.
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To pause for just a moment and realize that maybe you aren’t who you imagine yourself to be.
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Serving the Truth becomes our life instead of just an isolated event. It takes the abstractness out of spirituality. That’s the opportunity of real spirituality: to be in service to the silence of the heart.
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