To remain unconscious of being is to remain asleep to our own reality and therefore asleep to reality at large. The choice is simple: awaken to being or sleep an endless sleep.
ADYASHANTICompletion comes when we not just wake up from all form, from all identification, but when love causes us to re-embrace it all.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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To awaken to the absolute view is profound and transformative, but to awaken from all fixed points of view is the birth of true non-duality. If emptiness cannot dance, it is not true emptiness.
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Silence and stillness are not states and therefore cannot be produced or created. Silence is the non-state in which all states arise and subside. Silence, stillness and awareness are not states and can never be perceived in their totality as objects.
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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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The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.
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In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself. Primordial awareness is the source in which all objects arise and subside.
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Take the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you.
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There is nothing wrong with thought and it can be used whenever necessary. But in every moment you can choose to follow your thoughts or you can recognize that which is not thinking. Don’t try to stop thinking, let it happen. Just recognize that which is not thinking.
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The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.
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True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.
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If you filter my words through any tradition or ‘-ism’, you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is not static; it is alive. It cannot be put into concepts and be understood by the mind.
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Cessation of struggle is like free falling through space without a care in the world.
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Freedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom.
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Gratitude is the appreciation of what is, of life, of existence, of anybody and anything, for just the way it is.
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The Way of Liberation is not a belief system; it is something to be put into practice.
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My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.
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