All is always well even when it seems unbelievably unwell.
ADYASHANTIAll is always well even when it seems unbelievably unwell.
ADYASHANTIOnce again, we find ourselves back in the unknown – not in the idea of the unknown, but in the lived reality of it. It’s the mind humbled, on its knees, with bare feet and free of the known.
ADYASHANTIThere’s a great space in which this moment takes place. There’s a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.
ADYASHANTIYour 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.
ADYASHANTIIf you give yourself this gift of not knowing and you follow it, a vast spaciousness and mysterious openness dawns within you.
ADYASHANTIThe main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.
ADYASHANTIUntil we start to see these false perceptions for what they really are, consciousness will be imprisoned within the dream state.
ADYASHANTITrue Meditation is the space in which everything gets revealed, everything gets seen, everything gets experienced. And as such, it lets go of itself. We don’t even let go. It lets go of itself.
ADYASHANTIAll delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we’re talking to ourselves and then believing what we are saying.
ADYASHANTIWe realize–often quite suddenly–that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who we are. It doesn’t define us, it has no center.
ADYASHANTIAs you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind’s compulsive control, contractions, and identifications.
ADYASHANTIYou do it anyway. Why? Because you no longer want to suffer. Because you’re willing to be disturbed. You’re willing to be amazed. You’re willing to be surprised.
ADYASHANTICessation of struggle is like free falling through space without a care in the world.
ADYASHANTIServing 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.
ADYASHANTIThoughts in your head are really no different than the sound of a bird outside. It is just that you decide that they are more or less relevant.
ADYASHANTICompletion comes when we not just wake up from all form, from all identification, but when love causes us to re-embrace it all.
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