Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.
ADYASHANTIWhen we’re in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose.
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Life becomes almost magical. The illusion of the “me” is no longer in the way. Life begins to flow, and you never know where it will take you.
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Neither one of these thoughts hold any intrinsic reality. They are an overlay. When someone says, ‘I love you,’ he is telling you about himself, not you. When someone says, ‘I hate you,’ she is telling you about herself, not you. World views are self views-literally.
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There is no security in freedom, at least not in the sense that we normally think of security. This is, of course, why it is so free: there’s nothing there to grab hold of.
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Has it ever occurred to you that you are seeking God with His eyes?
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One Zen master said, The whole universe is my true personality. This is a very wonderful saying… If you want to see what you truly are, open the window, and everything you see is in fact the expression of your inner reality. Can you embrace all of it?
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Most human beings spend their lives battling with opposing inner forces: what they think they should do versus what they are doing; how they feel about themselves versus how they are; whether they think they’re right and worthy or wrong and unworthy.
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Love moves without an agenda. It just moves because that is its nature to move.
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True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.
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One must be willing to stand alone – in the unknown, with no reference to authority or the past or any of one’s conditioning. One must stand where no one has stood before in complete nakedness, innocence, and humility.
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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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As if some dreadful fate would overcome us if we were to face the pure light of truth and lay bare our fearful clinging to illusion.
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It authenticates itself. Something inside us knows. This…is what has been sought for, longed for, looked for. This is it. Usually, it’s not what we expected.
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If you were able to give up control absolutely, totally, and completely, then you would be a spiritually free being.
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We think there’s someplace other than here to get to—that’s what drives the whole pursuit.
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Completion comes when we not just wake up from all form, from all identification, but when love causes us to re-embrace it all.
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