Be a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don’t expect it to be easy or even noticed.
ADYASHANTIUntil we start to see these false perceptions for what they really are, consciousness will be imprisoned within the dream state.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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You are not your story. They are not your story about them. The world is not your story about the world.
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In True Meditation, we’re in the body as a means to transcend it. It is paradoxical that the greatest doorway to the transcendence of form is through form itself.
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Can you imagine if you really let it in that you are not a problem to be solved in any way? Imagine you knew that anything that would tell you otherwise is just a movement of thought in the mind that says “Whatever is, isn’t the way it is supposed to be.
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Most human beings spend their lives battling with opposing inner forces: what they think they should do versus what they are doing; how they feel about themselves versus how they are; whether they think they’re right and worthy or wrong and unworthy.
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An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.
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Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier.
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The goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.
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Eventually, in the state of liberation, meditation will simply become your natural condition.
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We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world.
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The unknown, our own true nature, has the capacity to wake itself up when you start to fall in love with letting go of all the mental structures you hold onto. Contemplate this: there is no such thing as a true belief.
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It is in the absolute surrender of all conditions and requirements that Liberation is discovered to be who and what you are. Then the love and wisdom that flows out of you has a liberating effect on others.
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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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Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.
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The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?
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When a group of people come together as a response to that kind of inward call, it creates a very powerful environment, where truth is held in the highest esteem and the reality of our being responds to that deepest intention.
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