My teacher used to say ‘all love is bittersweet’. All things experienced fully, reveal their opposite.
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.
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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 delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we’re talking to ourselves and then believing what we are saying.
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The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being.
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Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.
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In order to be truly free, you must desire to know the truth more than you want to feel good. Because, if feeling good is your goal, then as soon as you feel better you will lose interest in what is true.
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A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.
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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 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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No one can give you the strength of character necessary… Only you can find that passion within that burns with an integrity that will not settle for anything less than the 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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[And yet] it is astounding how completely we humans define ourselves by the content of our minds, feelings, and history.
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Has it ever occurred to you that you are seeking God with His eyes?
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When you begin to become conscious, more aware, when your eyes begin to open, the first thing you see is how deluded you are and how much you’re holding onto that which makes you suffer. This is, in many ways, the most important step: Are you willing to be aware?
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All you have to do is say “yes.” Don’t make some big project out of it. Don’t make some big deal out of it. Just say “yes.” You don’t even know what it means to say “yes,” but you say it anyway. You’ll never know what it means to say “yes,” but you do it anyway.
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When you discover yourself to be nothing but Freedom, you stop setting up conditions and requirements that need to be satisfied in order for you to be happy.
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