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.
ADYASHANTITrue freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.
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The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.
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When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.
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Faith is a withholding of conclusion so that you allow what is to arise.
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Freedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom.
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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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Radiantly nothing. Absolutely and eternally zero. Emptiness that is awake. Emptiness that is full. Emptiness that is everything.
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Enlightenment is a destructive process.
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This simply strengthens the ego. In fact, such conclusions arise from the ego itself. Pay no attention to them. Don’t go to war with yourself; simply inquire into who you are.
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To accept the degree of surrender needed to literally let go of all experience and all self-reference. Even in great revelations, there is almost always something that wants to claim, “I am this.”
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This world is not my concern; it is myself.
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The aim of my teaching is enlightenment, awakening from the dream state of separateness into the reality of the One. In short, my teaching is focused on realizing what you are.
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Now don’t think that awakening is the end. Awakening is the end of seeking, the end of the seeker, but it is the beginning of a life lived from your true nature.
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To be here, all you have to do is let go of who you think you are. That’s all! And then you realize, “I’m here.” Here is where thoughts aren’t believed. Every time you come here, you are nothing.
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As I often tell my students, the person you’ll have the hardest time opening to and truly loving without reserve is yourself. Once you can do that, you can love the whole universe unconditionally.
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