An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.
ADYASHANTIYou must want to know the truth more than you want to feel secure in order to fully awaken to the fact that you are nothing but Awakeness itself.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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You are the doorway to the infinite.
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What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.
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Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.
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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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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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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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To pause for just a moment and realize that maybe you aren’t who you imagine yourself to be.
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Gratitude is the appreciation of what is, of life, of existence, of anybody and anything, for just the way it is.
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One doesn’t stay in a state of nirvana by hiding from difficulties. You stay in nirvana by lavishing nirvana on everyone you meet, by giving it away as fast as you receive it.
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When you let go of the egoic self what you’re getting in exchange is the whole universe.
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The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.
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What you run away from owns you. You are the dog on a leash. The most you can do is to tug against the leash.
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Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.
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Freedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom.
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To be free of fear is to be full of Love.
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