If we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn’t that what silence is? It’s a listening, a deep wordless listening.
ADYASHANTIThis world is not my concern; it is myself.
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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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You must choose between your attachments and happiness.
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Space and stillness is the light that illuminates the beauty of our soul’s being.
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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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Silence is itself the eternal witness without form or attributes. As you rest more profoundly as the witness, all objects take on their natural functionality, and awareness becomes free of the mind’s compulsive contractions and identifications. It returns to its natural non-state of Presence.
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True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.
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Concentration is a way in which we are actually directing or guiding or controlling our experience. Meditation is letting go of control, letting go of guiding our experience in any way whatsoever. The foundation of True Meditation is that we are letting go of control.
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In order to be truly free, you must desire to know the truth more than you want to feel good. Because, if feeling good is your goal, then as soon as you feel better you will lose interest in what is true.
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The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.
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You’re willing to realize that maybe everything you’ve ever thought about yourself really isn’t true.
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Our yearning for truth actually comes from truth.
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It has no intention to harmonize. It has no agenda. It just happens. The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda. Everything else will have an agenda.
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Enlightenment is a destructive process.
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Take the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you.
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The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.
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