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.
ADYASHANTIIn the end it’s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.
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When you abide and accept everything completely and fully, you automatically go beyond.
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There is profound responsibility in being Love… more than the mind could imagine or hold up under. If most human beings truly realized the impact that they have on the whole, they’d be crushed by the realization of it.
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Actually, all paths lead away from the truth…how’s that? All paths. There’s no such thing as a path to the truth. The truth’s already here, where are you going?
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Many spiritual people are involved in a radical denial of what is happening. They want to transcend it, get rid of it, get out of it, get away from it. There’s nothing wrong with that feeling, but the approach doesn’t work because it’s escapism in spiritual clothing.
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The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.
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The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.
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Once again, we find ourselves back in the unknown – not in the idea of the unknown, but in the lived reality of it. It’s the mind humbled, on its knees, with bare feet and free of the known.
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When a group of people come together as a response to that kind of inward call, it creates a very powerful environment, where truth is held in the highest esteem and the reality of our being responds to that deepest intention.
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There’s something more to life than what we see on the surface.
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You must choose between your attachments and happiness.
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The beautiful thing about the truth of being is that it’s so unimaginably immediate.
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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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Every time you claim, “I am this”, you just claimed another sense perception, thought, emotion, or feeling.
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Love causes us to be deeply connected in an unspoken way. It happens when we’re really available, really open.
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