Take one step backward into the unknown.
ADYASHANTIThe truth is that you already are what you are seeking.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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Whatever you resist, persists.
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If you filter my words through any tradition or ‘-ism’, you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is not static; it is alive. It cannot be put into concepts and be understood by the mind.
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When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.
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The truth is that you already are what you are seeking. You are looking for God with his eyes. I suggest you ask, “What’s ultimately behind this set of eyes?” Turn around to see what is looking.
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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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You are not your story. They are not your story about them. The world is not your story about the world.
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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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The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.
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Question your thoughts. Question your stories. Question your assumptions. Question your opinions. Question your conclusions. Question them all into utter emptiness, stillness and joy. The keys to freedom are in your hands. Use them.
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Be a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don’t expect it to be easy or even noticed.
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The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. When you start to see the light that you really are, the light waking up in you, the radiance, you realize it has no intention to change you.
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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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Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control. This is meditation. Anything else is actually a form of concentration. Meditation and concentration are two different things. Concentration is a discipline.
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What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make through personal investigation.
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In the end it’s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t.
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