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Adyashanti Inspirational Quotes (204)

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In silence a question has great power, because in silence a question will always lead you deeper into your experience. If there is no grounding in silence, a spiritual question is going to lead you into your mind.
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Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.
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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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The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.
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My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.
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Life itself is nothing but relationship.
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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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This awake silence is available to anyone in this moment. All you have to do is stop using your mind to look for it. It doesn't know where to find it.
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Self-inquiry is a spiritually induced form of wintertime. It's not about looking for a right answer so much as stripping away and letting you see what is not necessary, what you can do without, what you are without your leaves.
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Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness
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My experience of fundamental Truth is that it’s a place of extraordinary intelligence. It’s a place from which great intelligence arises. I call it a place of absolute infinite potential.
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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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Completion comes when we not just wake up from all form, from all identification, but when love causes us to re-embrace it all.
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Cessation of struggle is like free falling through space without a care in the world.
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True sincerity reveals a powerful form of clarity and discernment that is necessary in order to perceive yourself honestly without flinching or being held captive by your conditioned mind's judgments and defensiveness.
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Enlightenment is a destructive process.
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There is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.
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We think there’s someplace other than here to get to—that’s what drives the whole pursuit. Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being, pure consciousness. This is actually the very substance of your own self and being.
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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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You 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.
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When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what's left? A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are.
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Real meditation is not about mastering a technique it's about letting go of control.
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Go ahead, climb up onto the velvet top of the highest stakes table. Place yourself as the bet. Look God in the eyes and finally, for once in your life, lose.
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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 be fully present, sincere and committed now, with absolute honesty and willingness to uncover and let go of any illusions that come between you and the realization of Reality.
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