In a certain sense, if I have an idea about you that I believe, I’ve degraded you. I’ve made you into something very small. This is the way of human beings, this is what we do to each other.
ADYASHANTIAll is always well even when it seems unbelievably unwell.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn’t exist?
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The process of finding the truth may not be a process by which we feel increasingly better and better. It may be a process by which we look at things honestly, sincerely, truthfully, and that may or may not be an easy thing to do.
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To find out that you are empty of emptiness is to die into an aware mystery, which is the source of all existence.
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When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are. When I have a thought about you, that’s something I’ve created. I’ve turned you into an idea.
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The body is a sensing instrument of consciousness. Without the body and mind, the trees could not see themselves.
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We must become expressions of, not consumers of, realization.
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True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.
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Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.
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Grief, unresisted, is grace. It doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt anymore, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t rip your heart out….In great grief, there’s an incredible love in it. In love there’s a tinge of bitter. In true love.
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Now don’t think that awakening is the end. Awakening is the end of seeking, the end of the seeker, but it is the beginning of a life lived from your true nature.
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The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.
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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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The question of being is everything. Nothing could be more important or consequential-n othing where the stakes run so high.
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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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When you get out of the driver’s seat, you find that life can drive itself, that actually life has always been driving itself. When you get out of the driver’s seat, it can drive itself so much easier-it can flow in ways you never imagined.
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