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We realize--often quite suddenly--that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who we are. It doesn't define us, it has no center.
Adyashanti
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Adyashanti
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 1
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Enlightenment is the natural state of consciousness, the innocent state of consciousness, that state which is uncontaminated by the movement of thought, uncontaminated by control or manipulation of mind.
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Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.
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A meditative mind is at ease because it's not trying to acquire anything.
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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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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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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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The process of finding the truth may not be a process by which we feel increasingly better and better. It may be a process by which we look at things honestly, sincerely, truthfully, and that may or may not be an easy thing to do.
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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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If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.
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Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.
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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 not at all.
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