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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.
Adyashanti
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Adyashanti
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 1
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No matter what identity we cling to, it takes great courage to step out of the old masks we wear and the old scripts that we live by, and open ourselves to the mysterious inner core of our being.
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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 experience of fundamental Truth is that it’s a place of extraordinary intelligence. It’s a place from which great intelligence arises. I call it a place of absolute infinite potential.
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The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.
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True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.
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True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.
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The perspective of Love doesn't leave anybody out. Until your vision and compassion is big enough to include those who oppose you, you are simply contributing to the continuation of destructiveness . The end of separation is the salvation for all.
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Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.
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A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.
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Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.
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Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness
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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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The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but it does change.
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Whatever you want, be it. If you want connection, it's because you are connection. Be what you want, and then it happens all around you. If you want love, be it. You'll have more love than you know what to do with. Whatever you are inside, you receive a thousandfold on the outside.
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You are not your story. They are not your story about them. The world is not your story about the world.
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Truth is not over there, wherever over there is. Truth is neither housed in religious rituals nor secret doctrines, nor in a guru's touch or beatific smile, nor in exotic locations or ancient temples. Truth is quite literally the only thing that does exist. It is not hidden but in plain view, not lacking but abundantly present.
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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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Take one step backward into the unknown.
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Our yearning for truth actually comes from truth.
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There's a great space in which this moment takes place. There's a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.
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