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Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully.
Adyashanti
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Adyashanti
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 1
Spirituality
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Steven Gray
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Grace is something that comes to us when we somehow find ourselves completely available, when we become openhearted and open-minded, and are willing to entertain the possibility that we may not know what we think we know.
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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 with more sooty knowledge.
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My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.
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If 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, as if it were their job to be nice to you, you put yourself at odds with what is, and suffering will surely follow.
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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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All is always well even when it seems unbelievably unwell.
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The realization of Truth and Reality can never be created by the mind ... it always comes as a gift of grace. Inquiry clears away misperceptions and illusions, making one available to the movements of grace.
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True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.
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If we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn't that what silence is? It's a listening, a deep wordless listening.
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Whenever you aren’t manipulating your experience, you’re meditating. As soon as you meditate because you think you should, you’re controlling your experience again, and you’ve squeezed all the value out of your meditation.
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If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.
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The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears.
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Take one step backward into the unknown.
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Serving the Truth becomes our life instead of just an isolated event. It takes the abstractness out of spirituality. That's the opportunity of real spirituality: to be in service to the silence of the heart.
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Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.
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A spiritual teaching is a finger pointing toward Reality it is not Reality itself. To be in a true and mature relationship with a spiritual teaching requires you to apply it, not simply believe in it.
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Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.
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The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.
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The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.
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Nobody can give us what we really already are. Wouldn't it be terrible if somebody could give you what you really are? ...'cause if they could give it to you, they could take it away.
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