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.
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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You don’t awaken, what has eternally been awake realizes itself. That which is eternally awake is what you are.
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The perspective of Love doesn’t leave anybody out. Until your vision and compassion is big enough to include those who oppose you, you are simply contributing to the continuation of destructiveness . The end of separation is the salvation for all.
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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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Meditation is not something restricted to times of formal seated meditation; it is most fundamentally an attitude of being-a resting in and as being. Once you get the feel of it, you will be able to tune into it more and more often during your daily life.
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Retreat is a response to the call of the heart-that call which beckons us toward reality, to the truth of our being, to that which is truly sane, really real and liberating …
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Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.
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There’s a fierceness about life that calls for a fierceness to not anxiously solve it but to allow it to transform you.
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What is really important you can’t understand with your mind.
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It simply means that if this desire to feel good is stronger than the yearning to see, know, and experience Truth, then this desire will always be distorting the perception of what is Real, while corrupting one’s deepest integrity.
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Freedom and Love arise when you die into the unknown mystery of being.
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Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control.
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Take one step backward into the unknown.
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Truth is not over there, wherever over there is. Truth is neither housed in religious rituals nor secret doctrines, nor in a guru’s touch or beatific smile, nor in exotic locations or ancient temples.
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Nothingness is an absolute infinite potential, not an empty box.
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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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If you have any image of what the Truth is, slay it immediately because that’s not it.
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Whatever you resist, persists.
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When you rest deeply in the Unknown without trying to escape, your experience becomes very vast. As the experience of the Unknown deepens, your boundaries begin to dissolve. You realize, not just intellectually but on a deep level, that you have no idea who or what you are.
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Our own intuition of what we’re called to is reality speaking to us individually and perfectly. We have to listen to how the Infinite talks to us and leads us. Reality, Life the Infinite, God, has a way of leading us in just the perfect way, if we will only just listen to it.
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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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Nothing appears to be something. The human experience is a senseory organ for the divine self. Through these eyes, the divine gets to see itself in form.
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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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This one question-‘What do I know for certain?’-is tremendously powerful. When you look deeply into this question, it actually destroys your world. It destroys your whole sense of self, and it’s meant to.
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If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.
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Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control. This is meditation. Anything else is actually a form of concentration. Meditation and concentration are two different things. Concentration is a discipline.
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