The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. When you start to see the light that you really are, the light waking up in you, the radiance, you realize it has no intention to change you.
ADYASHANTIOur yearning for truth actually comes from truth.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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The process of finding the truth may not be a process by which we feel increasingly better and better. It may be a process by which we look at things honestly, sincerely, truthfully, and that may or may not be an easy thing to do.
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Be a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don’t expect it to be easy or even noticed.
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I often describe the Absolute as Pure Infinite Potential, prior to being or becoming anything. It is forever unborn, yet gives birth to all of existence. About our ultimate nature nothing can be said; it must be revealed.
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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.
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Faith is a withholding of conclusion so that you allow what is to arise.
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As you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind’s compulsive control, contractions, and identifications.
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There is no security in freedom, at least not in the sense that we normally think of security. This is, of course, why it is so free: there’s nothing there to grab hold of.
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We don’t come to nirvana by avoiding samsara. We don’t come to clarity by avoiding confusion.
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There’s a fierceness about life that calls for a fierceness to not anxiously solve it but to allow it to transform you.
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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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Inherent in the impulse to be free, is insecurity. The impulse to be free comes from outside of the mind, and because of this, it makes the mind feel very insecure.
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The mind may accept or deny that you are awareness, but either way it can’t really understand. It cannot comprehend. Thought cannot comprehend what is beyond thought.
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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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You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.
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This world is not my concern; it is myself.
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