One must be willing to stand alone – in the unknown, with no reference to authority or the past or any of one’s conditioning. One must stand where no one has stood before in complete nakedness, innocence, and humility.
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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The beautiful thing about the truth of being is that it’s so unimaginably immediate.
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Let go of all ideas and images in your mind, they come and go and aren’t even generated by you. So why pay so much attention to your imagination when reality is for the realizing right now?
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Take the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you.
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No matter what identity we cling to, it takes great courage to step out of the old masks we wear and the old scripts that we live by, and open ourselves to the mysterious inner core of our being.
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The most difficult thing for spiritual seekers to do is to stop struggling, striving, seeking, and searching. Why? Because in the absence of struggle you don’t know who you are; you lose your boundaries.
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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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True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.
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You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.
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When you begin to become conscious, more aware, when your eyes begin to open, the first thing you see is how deluded you are and how much you’re holding onto that which makes you suffer. This is, in many ways, the most important step: Are you willing to be aware?
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Cessation of struggle is like free falling through space without a care in the world.
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The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.
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Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.
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Nothingness is an absolute infinite potential, not an empty box.
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The silence inside of you is the sound of your knowledge collapsing. Remember, it is you who said, ‘I want to be free.’
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The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.
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