Doubt is always accompanied by a pervasive cynicism that unconsciously puts a negative spin on whatever it touches.
ADYASHANTIOur yearning for truth actually comes from truth.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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When we really start to take a look at who we think we are… we start to see that while we may have various thoughts, beliefs, and identities, they do not individually or collectively tell us who we are.
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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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If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.
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At any moment, we are either giving humanity the gift of our clarity or our confusion. And that clarity or confusion is affecting the humanity around us, the world around us. It is manifesting. It is taking form.
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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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The separate self is just the conglomeration of these opposing forces. When the self drops away, inner division drops away with it.
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The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears.
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Go ahead, climb up onto the velvet top of the highest stakes table. Place yourself as the bet. Look God in the eyes and finally, for once in your life, lose.
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When we really start to take a look at who we think we are, we become very grace prone.
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The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.
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In liberation, you stand alone. You stand alone because you need no supports of any kind. You need no supports because you have realized that the very notion of a separate you no longer exists.
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Fear is very often a part of the spiritual path. When people sit down and meditate it’s not at all uncommon for fear to arise at some point.
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A spiritual teaching is a finger pointing toward Reality; it is not Reality itself. To be in a true and mature relationship with a spiritual teaching requires you to apply it, not simply believe in it.
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Eventually, in the state of liberation, meditation will simply become your natural condition.
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The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.
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