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We need to see each moment of apparent bondage as an invitation to freedom. Then it becomes an act of love, an act of compassion, to stop running away.

Adyashanti

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
Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.
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When you realize what you are now, the issue of death will solve itself.
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Death Issue Itself Now Realize Realizing Solve
You will only lose when you resist reality; you will only struggle when you disagree with what is.
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True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.
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This does not mean that feeling good or experiencing love and bliss is a bad thing. Given the choice, anyone would choose to feel bliss rather than sorrow.
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Bad Bliss Experiencing Good Mean Rather Simply Sorrow Thing
If you tell yourself a sad story, the body reacts to that. And if you tell yourself a self-aggrandizing story, the body feels puffed up, confident. But when you realize it’s all stories, there can be a vast waking up out of the mind, out of the dream.
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In the same vein, my teachings are not meant to acquire followers or imitators, but to awaken beings to eternal truth and thus to awakened life and living.
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When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.
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There is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.
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We don’t come to nirvana by avoiding samsara. We don’t come to clarity by avoiding confusion.
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There’s a great space in which this moment takes place. There’s a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.
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What you run away from owns you. You are the dog on a leash. The most you can do is to tug against the leash.
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Eventually, in the state of liberation, meditation will simply become your natural condition.
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When we really start to take a look at who we think we are, we become very grace prone.
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Take the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you.
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We need to see each moment of apparent bondage as an invitation to freedom. Then it becomes an act of love, an act of compassion, to stop running away.

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