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.
ADYASHANTIAll is always well even when it seems unbelievably unwell.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.
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Trying to maintain a pleasant state and avoid an unpleasant state is actually the cause of sorrow. When you stop resisting, you see that what seems frightening is actually the absolute beauty of reality.
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Grace is something that comes to us when we somehow find ourselves completely available, when we become openhearted and open-minded, and are willing to entertain the possibility that we may not know what we think we know.
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Truth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is discovered minute to minute or not at all.
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The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.
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True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.
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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 want, be it. If you want connection, it’s because you are connection. Be what you want, and then it happens all around you. If you want love, be it.
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When you realize what you are now, the issue of death will solve itself.
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You come to see that everything you think you know about yourself, everything you think you know about the world, is based on assumptions, beliefs, and opinions-things that you believe because you were taught or told they were true.
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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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The truth is you can’t try to let go. Trying is the opposite of letting go. To let go is to relinquish trying. To let go is much more like to let be.
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A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom.
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A meditative mind is at ease because it’s not trying to acquire anything.
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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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