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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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Adyashanti
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 1
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The aim of my teaching is enlightenment, awakening from the dream state of separateness into the reality of the One. In short, my teaching is focused on realizing what you are.
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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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An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.
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True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.
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The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.
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Many people think that it is the function of a spiritual teaching to provide answers to life's biggest questions, but actually, the opposite is true. The primary task of any good spiritual teaching is not to answer your questions, but to question your answers.
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Refuse to disconnect from love and every relationship will be totally transformed even the relationship with yourself.
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True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.
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Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.
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