Nothingness is an absolute infinite potential, not an empty box.
ADYASHANTINo matter what spiritual path you’ve walked or what teachings you’ve followed, they must lead you back to no path and no teaching. A true teaching is like a blazing fire that consumes itself.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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As soon as the mind pulls out an agenda and decides what needs to change, that’s unreality. Life doesn’t need to decide who’s right and who’s wrong. Life doesn’t need to know the “right” way to go because it’s going there anyway.
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We must leave the entire collection of conditioned thought behind and let ourselves be led by the inner thread of silence into the unknown, beyond where all paths end, to that place where we go innocently or not at all, not once but continually.
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Faith is a withholding of conclusion so that you allow what is to arise.
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Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.
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We think there’s someplace other than here to get to—that’s what drives the whole pursuit.
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Take the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you.
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One doesn’t stay in a state of nirvana by hiding from difficulties. You stay in nirvana by lavishing nirvana on everyone you meet, by giving it away as fast as you receive it.
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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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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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All is always well even when it seems unbelievably unwell.
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What am I, really? The beautiful thing…is nobody can tell us what we are. Nobody can really tell us. Not in a way that’s going to be satisfactory to us. Our true nature is self-authenticating. When we bump into our true nature,
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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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If you were able to give up control absolutely, totally, and completely, then you would be a spiritually free being.
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Life sustains itself. Let go of the ego and life takes care of itself through you.
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Enlightenment is the natural state of consciousness, the innocent state of consciousness, that state which is uncontaminated by the movement of thought, uncontaminated by control or manipulation of mind.
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