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It’s wearing spiritual clothing and spiritual concepts, but it is really no different than a drunk in the gutter who doesn’t want to feel the pain anymore.

Adyashanti

The process of finding the truth may not be a process by which we feel increasingly better and better. It may be a process by which we look at things honestly, sincerely, truthfully, and that may or may not be an easy thing to do.
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Better Easy Finding Increasingly Look May Process Truth
You are not your story. They are not your story about them. The world is not your story about the world.
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Stories Story Them World
What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.
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Appreciate Appreciation Attention Freedom Holding Living Meditation
To awaken to the absolute view is profound and transformative, but to awaken from all fixed points of view is the birth of true non-duality. If emptiness cannot dance, it is not true emptiness.
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Absolute Awaken Dream Fixed Night Point Profound Sky
The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but it does change.
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Anything Change Consciousness Light Mind Need Sense
Space and stillness is the light that illuminates the beauty of our soul’s being.
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Beauty Illuminate Light Soul Space Stillness
[And yet] it is astounding how completely we humans define ourselves by the content of our minds, feelings, and history.
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Astounding Completely Content Define Feeling History Mind Ourselves
The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears.
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Accepted Disappear Paradox Resistance
The perspective of Love doesn’t leave anybody out. Until your vision and compassion is big enough to include those who oppose you, you are simply contributing to the continuation of destructiveness . The end of separation is the salvation for all.
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Anybody Compassion Enough Include Leave Perspective Until Vision
Most people don’t get out of childhood, or adolescence, without being wounded for telling the truth. Someone says ‘you can’t say that’ or ‘you shouldn’t say that’ or ‘that wasn’t appropriate’.
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Adolescence Behind Childhood Inner Ourselves People Real Thread
Trying to maintain a pleasant state and avoid an unpleasant state is actually the cause of sorrow. When you stop resisting, you see that what seems frightening is actually the absolute beauty of reality.
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Hurt Love Maintain Reality Sorrow State Unpleasant
When someone tells you, ‘I love you,’ and then you feel, ‘Oh, I must be worthy after all,’ that’s an illusion. That’s not true. Or someone says, ‘I hate you,’ and you think, ‘Oh, God, I knew it; I’m not very worthy,’ that’s not true either.
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Feel Hate Illusion Lov Someone Tell Uplifting You
We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world.
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Birthed Community Sacred Sangha World
When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.
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Emptiness Eternity Love Move Moving Still
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
In the heart of a human being, emptiness becomes love. When we touch that Source, instantly the love is present. Literally, the divine becomes human and the human becomes divine.
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Concept Fixating Free Heart Hold Human Love Emptiness

It’s wearing spiritual clothing and spiritual concepts, but it is really no different than a drunk in the gutter who doesn’t want to feel the pain anymore.

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