My teacher used to say ‘all love is bittersweet’. All things experienced fully, reveal their opposite.
ADYASHANTIWhen we’re in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose.
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Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being, pure consciousness. This is actually the very substance of your own self and being.
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The mind wants to land, to fixate, to hold a concept, but the only way you can be really free is by not fixating. That’s part of true maturity, and it’s one of the hardest things for spiritual people who have had true and powerful revelations to go through.
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Freedom and Love arise when you die into the unknown mystery of being.
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Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.
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It’s wearing spiritual clothing and spiritual concepts, but it is really no different than a drunk in the gutter who doesn’t want to feel the pain anymore.
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Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness
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Your life, all of your life, is your path to awakening. By resisting or not dealing with its challenges, you stay asleep to Reality. Pay attention to what life is trying to reveal to you. Say yes to its fierce, ruthless, and loving grace.
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This moment in which you experience stillness is every moment. Don’t let the mind seduce you into the past or future. Stay in the moment, and dare to consider that you can be free now.
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We don’t come to nirvana by avoiding samsara. We don’t come to clarity by avoiding confusion.
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So most of us human beings have a very deep underlying conditioning that says that just to be who we are is not OK…….
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You must choose between your attachments and happiness.
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Take the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you.
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Go ahead, climb up onto the velvet top of the highest stakes table. Place yourself as the bet. Look God in the eyes and finally, for once in your life, lose.
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You can’t look at what’s looking. You can’t think about that which is prior to thought.
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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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