Adyashanti

To be free of fear is to be full of Love.

— Adyashanti

You must choose between your attachments and happiness.

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Nothingness is an absolute infinite potential, not an empty box.

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You think that enlightenment is something other than what is happening right now. This is your primary mistake.

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Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?

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The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears.

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There is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.

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A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom.

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Whatever you can become will ultimately be destroyed. Only what you already are can't be taken away.

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True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.

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“Silence reveals itself only to itself. Only when we enter as nothing and stay as nothing, will silence open its secret”

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Only something as insane as human beings would ever asked themselves if 'I'm good.' You don't find oak trees having existential crisis.…

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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…

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The unknown, our own true nature, has the capacity to wake itself up when you start to fall in love with letting…

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Thoughts in your head are really no different than the sound of a bird outside. It is just that you decide that…

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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…

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In the heart of a human being, emptiness becomes love. When we touch that Source, instantly the love is present. Literally, the…

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Awakening to the truth is a deep realization of what you are as an experience. What is it that is listening? What…

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To be here, all you have to do is let go of who you think you are. That's all! And then you…

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Stop all delays, all seeking and all striving. Put down your concepts, ideas and beliefs. For one instant be still and directly…

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In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself.…

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Right now you can allow yourself to experience a very simple sense of not knowing - not knowing what or who you…

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Spirituality does not require that you work hard toward achieving a result in the future as much as it requires you to…

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To awaken to the absolute view is profound and transformative, but to awaken from all fixed points of view is the birth…

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What if you let go of every bit of control and every urge that you have, right down to the most infinitesimal…

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When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are.…

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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…

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“If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume your mind's clothing…

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“All thoughts—good thoughts, bad thoughts, lovely thoughts, evil thoughts—occur within something. All thoughts arise and disappear into a vast space. If you…

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“Enlightenment depends to a large extent on believing that you are born for Freedom in this lifetime, and that it is available…

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The important thing is allowing the whole world to wake up. Part of allowing the whole world to wake up is recognizing…

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“In True Meditation, we’re in the body as a means to transcend it. It is paradoxical that the greatest doorway to the…

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“When we believe what we think, when we take our thinking to be reality, we will suffer. It’s not obvious until you…

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“Beyond even any teaching, though, the aspect of spiritual life that is the most profound is the element of grace. Grace is…

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Imagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.

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Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.

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What is really important you can't understand with your mind.

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Truth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is discovered minute to minute or…

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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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Stop all doing and be still. Let the fire of stillness burn everything and reveal That which is Openness.

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