True love has nothing to do with liking someone, agreeing with him or her or being compatible. It is a love of unity, a love of seeing God wearing all the masks, and recognising itself in them all..
ADYASHANTIAwareness isn’t something we own; awareness isn’t something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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Freedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom.
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Deep down we all suspect that something is very wrong with the way we perceive life but we try very, very hard not to notice it. And the way we remain blind to our frightful condition is through an obsessive and pathological denial of being.
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Enlightenment is a destructive process.
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My teacher used to say ‘all love is bittersweet’. All things experienced fully, reveal their opposite.
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Reality is always true to itself. When you’re in harmony with it, you experience bliss. As soon as you are not in harmony with it, you experience pain. This is the law of the universe; it is the way things are. Nobody gets out of this law.
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Sincere and committed now, with absolute honesty and willingness to uncover and let go of any illusions that come between you and the realization of Reality.
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How do I integrate spirituality into my everyday life? Throw out the concept of “spiritual life” and “everyday life.” There is only life, undivided and whole.
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It authenticates itself. Something inside us knows. This…is what has been sought for, longed for, looked for. This is it. Usually, it’s not what we expected.
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Inherent in the impulse to be free, is insecurity. The impulse to be free comes from outside of the mind, and because of this, it makes the mind feel very insecure.
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If you were able to give up control absolutely, totally, and completely, then you would be a spiritually free being.
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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 can’t have an idea of what life should look like, about how spirit should be manifesting as our very life, because all of those ideas would just be products of the past – something we learned, imagined, or desired.
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Completion 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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When we’re in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose.
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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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