What gets taken away are all the exterior means we thought we wanted love to come to us. You have the choice to notice the perfect set up to see love is exactly what you are.
ADYASHANTIIf you think that people should be nice to one another, then by all means be nice. But when you project that belief onto the people and the world around you as if it were an objective reality, or worse still.
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When someone tells you, ‘I love you,’ and then you feel, ‘Oh, I must be worthy after all,’ that’s an illusion. That’s not true. Or someone says, ‘I hate you,’ and you think, ‘Oh, God, I knew it; I’m not very worthy,’ that’s not true either.
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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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Love moves without an agenda. It just moves because that is its nature to move.
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Take one step backward into the unknown.
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The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears.
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To be free of fear is to be full of Love.
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Cessation of struggle is like free falling through space without a care in the world.
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In a certain sense, if I have an idea about you that I believe, I’ve degraded you. I’ve made you into something very small. This is the way of human beings, this is what we do to each other.
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When you begin to become conscious, more aware, when your eyes begin to open, the first thing you see is how deluded you are and how much you’re holding onto that which makes you suffer. This is, in many ways, the most important step: Are you willing to be aware?
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Retreat is a response to the call of the heart-that call which beckons us toward reality, to the truth of our being, to that which is truly sane, really real and liberating …
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If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.
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As long as you perceive that anyone is holding you back, you have not taken full responsibility for your own liberation. Liberation means that you stand free of making demands on others and life to make you happy.
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At any moment, we are either giving humanity the gift of our clarity or our confusion. And that clarity or confusion is affecting the humanity around us, the world around us. It is manifesting. It is taking form.
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Refuse to disconnect from love and every relationship will be totally transformed; even the relationship with yourself.
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An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.
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