At each moment we are expressing what we know ourselves to be. If we know ourselves very little we will express and manifest that unconsciousness of our true nature.
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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There’s a great space in which this moment takes place. There’s a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.
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Human beings have a drive for security and safety, which is often what fuels the spiritual search. This very drive for security and safety is what causes so much misery and confusion.
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The truth lies beyond all forms of conceptual fundamentalism. What you are is the beyond—awake and present, here and now already. I am simply helping you to realize that.
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It authenticates itself. Something inside us knows. This…is what has been sought for, longed for, looked for. This is it. Usually, it’s not what we expected.
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We need to see each moment of apparent bondage as an invitation to freedom. Then it becomes an act of love, an act of compassion, to stop running away.
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Right now you can allow yourself to experience a very simple sense of not knowing – not knowing what or who you are, not knowing what this moment is, not knowing anything.
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True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.
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When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are. When I have a thought about you, that’s something I’ve created. I’ve turned you into an idea.
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Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?
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When you begin to become conscious, more aware, when your eyes begin to open, the first thing you see is how deluded you are and how much you’re holding onto that which makes you suffer. This is, in many ways, the most important step: Are you willing to be aware?
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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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It is easy to imagine that the Buddha, the awakened one, is something or somewhere other than here or that awakening to reality will happen sometime other than now. But as long as we continue to think in terms of time we will deceive ourselves.
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Awareness isn’t something we own; awareness isn’t something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.
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Our yearning for truth actually comes from truth.
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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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