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Inspirational Quotes by Adyashanti

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Understanding often slips past the mind, so true intelligence learns to use thought without being ruled by it. Adyashanti says that freedom appears when we stop searching for it, and that letting go of fear fills us with love. It reminds us that there is nothing to understand beyond the present moment.

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True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.

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Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness

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

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

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Life itself is nothing but relationship.

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This world is not my concern; it is myself.

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We must become expressions of, not consumers of, realization.

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Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.

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The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.

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When you realize what you are now, the issue of death will solve itself.

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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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If you have any image of what the Truth is, slay it immediately because that's not it.

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Doubt is always accompanied by a pervasive cynicism that unconsciously puts a negative spin on whatever it touches.

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Faith is a withholding of conclusion so that you allow what is to arise.

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True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.

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True Meditation is the space in which everything gets revealed, everything gets seen, everything gets experienced. And as such, it lets go…

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Actually, all paths lead away from the truth...how's that? All paths. There's no such thing as a path to the truth. The…

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Our yearning for truth actually comes from truth.

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Freedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom.

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You must choose between your attachments and happiness.

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

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Take the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you.

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You are the doorway to the infinite.

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There is, quite literally, nothing to understand.

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Take one step backward into the unknown.

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True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.

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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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Awareness isn’t something we own; awareness isn’t something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.

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The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.

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The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.

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There's a fierceness about life that calls for a fierceness to not anxiously solve it but to allow it to transform you.

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A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.

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Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.

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It is one thing to touch a flame and know it is hot, but quite another to jump into that flame and…

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The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am…

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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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Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.

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A meditative mind is at ease because it's not trying to acquire anything.

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Love moves without an agenda. It just moves because that is its nature to move.

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Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it's about letting go of control.

When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.

You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.

Life sustains itself. Let go of the ego and life takes care of itself through you.

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