The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.
ADYASHANTIBe a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don’t expect it to be easy or even noticed.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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Reality is always true to itself. When you’re in harmony with it, you experience bliss. As soon as you are not in harmony with it, you experience pain. This is the law of the universe; it is the way things are. Nobody gets out of this law.
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What if you let go of every bit of control and every urge that you have, right down to the most infinitesimal urge to control anything, anywhere, including anything that may be happening with you at this moment?
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Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn’t exist?
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The beautiful thing about the truth of being is that it’s so unimaginably immediate.
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Imagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.
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We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world.
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Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretence. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.
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Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.
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Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering.
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The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda.
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You are the doorway to the infinite.
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When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable. It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we are not relating from the truth. It’s a beautiful pointer. It never fails.
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If you tell yourself a sad story, the body reacts to that. And if you tell yourself a self-aggrandizing story, the body feels puffed up, confident. But when you realize it’s all stories, there can be a vast waking up out of the mind, out of the dream.
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Awakening to the truth is a deep realization of what you are as an experience. What is it that is listening? What is it that is feeling? Feel it. Sense it. Welcome it.
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Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control.
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