The beautiful thing about the truth of being is that it’s so unimaginably immediate.
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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You must choose between your attachments and happiness.
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Most people don’t get out of childhood, or adolescence, without being wounded for telling the truth. Someone says ‘you can’t say that’ or ‘you shouldn’t say that’ or ‘that wasn’t appropriate’.
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An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.
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That there is nothing to support, that the whole ego experience was a flimsy illusion. So you stand alone but are never, never lonely because everywhere you look, all you see is That, and you are That.
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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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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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You’re Arguing with ‘What Is’ – Your demands keep you chained to the ‘dream-state’ of the conditioned mind. The desire to ‘control’… is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake.
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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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Love moves without an agenda. It just moves because that is its nature to move.
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As you peel it back, in the heart of nothing, that is love. You are what you are seeking. Life is a set up so that each of us can actually see in ourselves the truth for ourselves.
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If you give yourself this gift of not knowing and you follow it, a vast spaciousness and mysterious openness dawns within you.
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Once again, we find ourselves back in the unknown – not in the idea of the unknown, but in the lived reality of it. It’s the mind humbled, on its knees, with bare feet and free of the known.
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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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When you realize what you are now, the issue of death will solve itself.
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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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