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.”
ADYASHANTIWe 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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Freedom and Love arise when you die into the unknown mystery of being.
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True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.
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Feel this moment, see it with a willingness to experience it deeply, whether it be good, bad, or indifferent. Emotionally and feelingly be fully present, right here, vulnerable, with your heart. Just be present. Don’t live from your conditioned mind, live from unconditional truth.
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You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.
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The important thing is allowing the whole world to wake up. Part of allowing the whole world to wake up is recognizing that the whole world is free,
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What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.
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If you have any image of what the Truth is, slay it immediately because that’s not it.
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The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.
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They know deep down that certain things in their lives are working or aren’t working, that certain parts of their lives are functional and others are dysfunctional. But sometimes, as human beings, we don’t want to know what’s not convenient. So we pretend not to know.
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All is always well even when it seems unbelievably unwell.
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Awareness isn’t something we own; awareness isn’t something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.
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We realize–often quite suddenly–that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who we are. It doesn’t define us, it has no center.
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Cessation of struggle is like free falling through space without a care in the world.
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Freedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom.
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The mind may accept or deny that you are awareness, but either way it can’t really understand. It cannot comprehend. Thought cannot comprehend what is beyond thought.
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