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.
ADYASHANTIDo not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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You come to see that everything you think you know about yourself, everything you think you know about the world, is based on assumptions, beliefs, and opinions-things that you believe because you were taught or told they were true.
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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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To be free of fear is to be full of Love.
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With this love you can feel the walls of opposition come down naturally in the acknowledgement of deep connection. Not only do the walls of opposition fall, but love is felt for every human being and for life itself.
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No one can give you the strength of character necessary… Only you can find that passion within that burns with an integrity that will not settle for anything less than the Truth.
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Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being, pure consciousness. This is actually the very substance of your own self and being.
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Stop all doing and be still. Let the fire of stillness burn everything and reveal That which is Openness.
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To pause for just a moment and realize that maybe you aren’t who you imagine yourself to be.
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When you rest deeply in the Unknown without trying to escape, your experience becomes very vast. As the experience of the Unknown deepens, your boundaries begin to dissolve. You realize, not just intellectually but on a deep level, that you have no idea who or what you are.
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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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No matter what identity we cling to, it takes great courage to step out of the old masks we wear and the old scripts that we live by, and open ourselves to the mysterious inner core of our being.
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Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.
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It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the rabid dissatisfaction with living anything less than a fully authentic life.
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Thoughts in your head are really no different than the sound of a bird outside. It is just that you decide that they are more or less relevant.
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The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.
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