The truth is that you already are what you are seeking. You are looking for God with his eyes. I suggest you ask, “What’s ultimately behind this set of eyes?” Turn around to see what is looking.
ADYASHANTIThere is a very Simple Secret to being happy. Just let go of your ‘demand’ on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom.
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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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All we really want in the end is to be connected once again with the Truth of our being, to realize what it is that wears this mask of self.
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The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda.
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This one question-‘What do I know for certain?’-is tremendously powerful. When you look deeply into this question, it actually destroys your world. It destroys your whole sense of self, and it’s meant to.
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Space and stillness is the light that illuminates the beauty of our soul’s being.
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The Truth doesn’t answer anything. The Truth IS everything!
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When the eternal and the human meet, that’s where love is born — not through escaping our humanity or trying to disappear into transcendence, but through finding that place where they come into union.
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You’ll have more love than you know what to do with. Whatever you are inside, you receive a thousandfold on the outside.
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True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.
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My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.
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In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself. Primordial awareness is the source in which all objects arise and subside.
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True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.
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Whatever you want, be it. If you want connection, it’s because you are connection. Be what you want, and then it happens all around you. If you want love, be it.
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Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control. This is meditation. Anything else is actually a form of concentration. Meditation and concentration are two different things. Concentration is a discipline.
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