Neither one of these thoughts hold any intrinsic reality. They are an overlay. When someone says, ‘I love you,’ he is telling you about himself, not you. When someone says, ‘I hate you,’ she is telling you about herself, not you. World views are self views-literally.
ADYASHANTIThe moment that you are willing to step outside of tomorrow, outside of needing more time, or having more time, everything becomes possible. And you may finally notice where the Buddha has always been.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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The unknown, our own true nature, has the capacity to wake itself up when you start to fall in love with letting go of all the mental structures you hold onto. Contemplate this: there is no such thing as a true belief.
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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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Feel your way into what I am saying rather than thinking about it. Only a self-concept looks and longs for God. Drop your self-concept and there is only God meeting God. Enlightenment is the restoration of cosmic humor.
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Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control.
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To pause for just a moment and realize that maybe you aren’t who you imagine yourself to be.
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As if it were their job to be nice to you, you put yourself at odds with what is, and suffering will surely follow.
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Our illusions-the beliefs we hold on to-are the very doorways to our freedom. We simply have to enter through them without grasping or pushing away. We must not believe them, but we must not run away from them either.
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Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.
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At a certain point we need to grow up; we need to look inside ourselves for our inner guidance. There are things most human beings know; they just don’t want to know them.
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The truth lies beyond all forms of conceptual fundamentalism. What you are is the beyond—awake and present, here and now already. I am simply helping you to realize that.
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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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Cessation of struggle is like free falling through space without a care in the world.
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Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.
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There’s something more to life than what we see on the surface.
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Right now you can allow yourself to experience a very simple sense of not knowing – not knowing what or who you are, not knowing what this moment is, not knowing anything.
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