Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?
ADYASHANTIWhy is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.
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The moment that you are willing to step outside of tomorrow, outside of needing more time, or having more time, everything becomes possible. And you may finally notice where the Buddha has always been.
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My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.
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All is always well even when it seems unbelievably unwell.
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Relaxing into not knowing is almost like surrendering into a big, comfortable chair; you just fall into a field of possibility.
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The beautiful thing about the truth of being is that it’s so unimaginably immediate.
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To accept the degree of surrender needed to literally let go of all experience and all self-reference. Even in great revelations, there is almost always something that wants to claim, “I am this.”
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If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.
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Many spiritual people are involved in a radical denial of what is happening. They want to transcend it, get rid of it, get out of it, get away from it. There’s nothing wrong with that feeling, but the approach doesn’t work because it’s escapism in spiritual clothing.
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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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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.
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Thoughts are just moving through consciousness. They have no power. Nothing has reality until you reach it, grab it, and somehow impregnate it with the power of belief.
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As soon as you believe that a label you’ve put on yourself is true, you’ve limited something that is literally limitless, you’ve limited who you are into nothing but a thought.
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Neither one of these thoughts hold any intrinsic reality. They are an overlay. When someone says, ‘I love you,’ he is telling you about himself, not you. When someone says, ‘I hate you,’ she is telling you about herself, not you. World views are self views-literally.
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This awake silence is available to anyone in this moment. All you have to do is stop using your mind to look for it. It doesn’t know where to find it.
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