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.
ADYASHANTIWhen we really start to take a look at who we think we are… we start to see that while we may have various thoughts, beliefs, and identities, they do not individually or collectively tell us who we are.
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Love causes us to be deeply connected in an unspoken way. It happens when we’re really available, really open.
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The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.
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We realize–often quite suddenly–that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who we are. It doesn’t define us, it has no center.
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A few minutes ago, you knew who you were-you had a history and a personality-but from this place of not knowing, you question all of that.
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Until we start to see these false perceptions for what they really are, consciousness will be imprisoned within the dream state.
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To see things as you see them or to see things differently—until you have given the whole world its freedom—you’ll never have your freedom.
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Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true. It is the way Life suggests that you are not in harmony with what is.
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At any moment, we are either giving humanity the gift of our clarity or our confusion. And that clarity or confusion is affecting the humanity around us, the world around us. It is manifesting. It is taking form.
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If you think that people should be nice to one another, then by all means be nice. But when you project that belief onto the people and the world around you as if it were an objective reality, or worse still.
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Every time you claim, “I am this”, you just claimed another sense perception, thought, emotion, or feeling.
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They know deep down that certain things in their lives are working or aren’t working, that certain parts of their lives are functional and others are dysfunctional. But sometimes, as human beings, we don’t want to know what’s not convenient. So we pretend not to know.
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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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I often describe the Absolute as Pure Infinite Potential, prior to being or becoming anything. It is forever unborn, yet gives birth to all of existence. About our ultimate nature nothing can be said; it must be revealed.
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When you let go of the egoic self what you’re getting in exchange is the whole universe.
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Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness
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