A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.
ADYASHANTIRadiantly nothing. Absolutely and eternally zero. Emptiness that is awake. Emptiness that is full. Emptiness that is everything.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.
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If you have any image of what the Truth is, slay it immediately because that’s not it.
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Fear is very often a part of the spiritual path. When people sit down and meditate it’s not at all uncommon for fear to arise at some point.
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Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.
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If you give yourself this gift of not knowing and you follow it, a vast spaciousness and mysterious openness dawns within you.
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Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true. It is the way Life suggests that you are not in harmony with what is.
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The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.
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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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You are the doorway to the infinite.
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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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Every time you claim, “I am this”, you just claimed another sense perception, thought, emotion, or feeling.
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We 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.
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Be a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don’t expect it to be easy or even noticed.
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If we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn’t that what silence is? It’s a listening, a deep wordless listening.
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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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