This awake silence is available to anyone in this moment. All you have to do is stop using your mind to look for it. It doesn’t know where to find it.
ADYASHANTIOnly when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being, pure consciousness. This is actually the very substance of your own self and being.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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What if you let go of every bit of control and every urge that you have, right down to the most infinitesimal urge to control anything, anywhere, including anything that may be happening with you at this moment?
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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 are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world.
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When we really start to take a look at who we think we are… we start to see that while we may have various thoughts, beliefs, and identities, they do not individually or collectively tell us who we are.
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Thoughts in your head are really no different than the sound of a bird outside. It is just that you decide that they are more or less relevant.
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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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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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Life sustains itself. Let go of the ego and life takes care of itself through you.
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Refuse to disconnect from love and every relationship will be totally transformed; even the relationship with yourself.
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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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The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but it does change.
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As you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind’s compulsive control, contractions, and identifications.
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A meditative mind is at ease because it’s not trying to acquire anything.
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Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.
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You are not your story. They are not your story about them. The world is not your story about the world.
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