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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.
Adyashanti
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Adyashanti
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 1
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The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears.
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