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As I often tell my students, the person you’ll have the hardest time opening to and truly loving without reserve is yourself. Once you can do that, you can love the whole universe unconditionally.
Adyashanti
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Adyashanti
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 1
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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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All is always well even when it seems unbelievably unwell.
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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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The willingness to not bypass illusion is very important. We come to nirvana by way of samsara. We come to see the true nature of things by seeing through the illusory nature of things. We don't come to nirvana by avoiding samsara. We don't come to clarity by avoiding confusion.
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To find out that you are empty of emptiness is to die into an aware mystery, which is the source of all existence.
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The truth is you can't try to let go. Trying is the opposite of letting go. To let go is to relinquish trying. To let go is much more like to let be.
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The body is a sensing instrument of consciousness. Without the body and mind, the trees could not see themselves. Usually we think that we are looking at a tree, but the tree is looking at itself through us. Without this instrument, the tree does not get to see itself. We are sensing instruments of the Divine.
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True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.
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You must choose between your attachments and happiness.
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In the end it’s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t.
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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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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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When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable. It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we are not relating from the truth. It's a beautiful pointer. It never fails.
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The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.
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Let go of all ideas and images in your mind, they come and go and aren’t even generated by you. So why pay so much attention to your imagination when reality is for the realizing right now?
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What you run away from owns you. You are the dog on a leash. The most you can do is to tug against the leash.
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We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world.
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Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.
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When we really start to take a look at who we think we are, we become very grace prone.
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