The realization of Truth and Reality can never be created by the mind … it always comes as a gift of grace. Inquiry clears away misperceptions and illusions, making one available to the movements of grace.
ADYASHANTIThe middle way is an invitation to leap beyond nirvana and samsara and to realize the unborn Buddha mind right in the middle of everywhere.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being.
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A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.
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Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.
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Eventually, in the state of liberation, meditation will simply become your natural condition.
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Reality is always true to itself. When you’re in harmony with it, you experience bliss. As soon as you are not in harmony with it, you experience pain. This is the law of the universe; it is the way things are. Nobody gets out of this law.
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To find out that you are empty of emptiness is to die into an aware mystery, which is the source of all existence.
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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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As you peel it back, in the heart of nothing, that is love. You are what you are seeking. Life is a set up so that each of us can actually see in ourselves the truth for ourselves.
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This one question-‘What do I know for certain?’-is tremendously powerful. When you look deeply into this question, it actually destroys your world. It destroys your whole sense of self, and it’s meant to.
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Love causes us to be deeply connected in an unspoken way. It happens when we’re really available, really open.
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You will only lose when you resist reality; you will only struggle when you disagree with what is.
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This movement of grasping and aversion gives rise to a sense of a separate ‘me,’ and in turn the sense of ‘me’ strengthens itself this way.
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Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.
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The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?
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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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