We can’t have an idea of what life should look like, about how spirit should be manifesting as our very life, because all of those ideas would just be products of the past – something we learned, imagined, or desired.
ADYASHANTICessation of struggle is like free falling through space without a care in the world.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.
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That there is nothing to support, that the whole ego experience was a flimsy illusion. So you stand alone but are never, never lonely because everywhere you look, all you see is That, and you are That.
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The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.
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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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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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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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My experience of fundamental Truth is that it’s a place of extraordinary intelligence. It’s a place from which great intelligence arises. I call it a place of absolute infinite potential.
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If you give yourself this gift of not knowing and you follow it, a vast spaciousness and mysterious openness dawns within you.
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Love moves without an agenda. It just moves because that is its nature to move.
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Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering.
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Most spiritual seekers move away from this insecurity by seeking and striving for a distant spiritual goal. That’s how they avoid feeling insecure.
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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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Life itself is nothing but relationship.
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The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.
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Whatever you resist, persists.
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