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Trying to maintain a pleasant state and avoid an unpleasant state is actually the cause of sorrow. When you stop resisting, you see that what seems frightening is actually the absolute beauty of reality.

Adyashanti

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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Anything Becoming Forever Giving Infinite Potential Prior Unborn
The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.
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Challenge Most Seeker Spiritual Struggle Struggling
Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.
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After Itself Seek Source Yearn Yearning
Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.
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Being Enlightenment Mean Truly Waking
The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being.
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Authentic Being Deeply Honest Mystery Positive Thinking
The aim of my teaching is enlightenment, awakening from the dream state of separateness into the reality of the One. In short, my teaching is focused on realizing what you are.
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Awakening Dream Enlightenment Reality Separateness Teaching
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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Desire Feel Good Integrity Mean More Order Real
In the same vein, my teachings are not meant to acquire followers or imitators, but to awaken beings to eternal truth and thus to awakened life and living.
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Acquire Awakened Eternal Follower Initiator Living Teaching
Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.
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Being End Enlightenment More Natural Nothing State
Enlightenment is the natural state of consciousness, the innocent state of consciousness, that state which is uncontaminated by the movement of thought, uncontaminated by control or manipulation of mind.
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Consciousness Enlightenment Innocent Mind Movement State
As you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind’s compulsive control, contractions, and identifications.
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Awareness Control Knowing Mind Profoundly Return
True Meditation is the space in which everything gets revealed, everything gets seen, everything gets experienced. And as such, it lets go of itself. We don’t even let go. It lets go of itself.
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Everything Experienced Let Go Meditation Revealed Seen Space True
You must choose between your attachments and happiness.
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Attachment Happiness Must Choose Positive Selected Thinking
Our yearning for truth actually comes from truth.
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Actually Awakening Come Truly Truth Yearning
There is profound responsibility in being Love… more than the mind could imagine or hold up under. If most human beings truly realized the impact that they have on the whole, they’d be crushed by the realization of it.
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Being Hold Human Imagine Impact Profound Responsibility Responsible Under
Retreat is a response to the call of the heart-that call which beckons us toward reality, to the truth of our being, to that which is truly sane, really real and liberating …
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Beckon Being Heart Powerful Real Reality Response Retreat Toward Truth

Trying to maintain a pleasant state and avoid an unpleasant state is actually the cause of sorrow. When you stop resisting, you see that what seems frightening is actually the absolute beauty of reality.

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Trying to maintain a pleasant state and avoid an unpleasant state is actually the cause of sorrow. When you stop resisting, you see that what seems frightening is actually the absolute beauty of reality.

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