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.
ADYASHANTIAs if some dreadful fate would overcome us if we were to face the pure light of truth and lay bare our fearful clinging to illusion.
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How do I integrate spirituality into my everyday life? Throw out the concept of “spiritual life” and “everyday life.” There is only life, undivided and whole.
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Doubt is always accompanied by a pervasive cynicism that unconsciously puts a negative spin on whatever it touches.
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When you abide and accept everything completely and fully, you automatically go beyond.
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In True Meditation, we’re in the body as a means to transcend it. It is paradoxical that the greatest doorway to the transcendence of form is through form itself.
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You can’t lose what you serve. That’s the secret. What you serve, you can’t lose. What you don’t serve and what you try to hold onto, you can’t hold onto. It’s always slipping out of your fingers.
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My teacher used to say ‘all love is bittersweet’. All things experienced fully, reveal their opposite.
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Freedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom.
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There is no security in freedom, at least not in the sense that we normally think of security. This is, of course, why it is so free: there’s nothing there to grab hold of.
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Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control. This is meditation. Anything else is actually a form of concentration. Meditation and concentration are two different things. Concentration is a discipline.
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If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.
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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 is, quite literally, nothing to understand.
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If you resist confusion,you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them.
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As if some dreadful fate would overcome us if we were to face the pure light of truth and lay bare our fearful clinging to illusion.
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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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