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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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Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretence. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.
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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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True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.
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As you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind's compulsive control, contractions, and identifications. Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.
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Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully.
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All we really want in the end is to be connected once again with the Truth of our being, to realize what it is that wears this mask of self.
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One must be willing to stand alone - in the unknown, with no reference to authority or the past or any of one's conditioning. One must stand where no one has stood before in complete nakedness, innocence, and humility.
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Be a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don't expect it to be easy or even noticed.
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Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.
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This awake silence is available to anyone in this moment. All you have to do is stop using your mind to look for it. It doesn't know where to find it.
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The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.
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The unknown, our own true nature, has the capacity to wake itself up when you start to fall in love with letting go of all the mental structures you hold onto. Contemplate this: there is no such thing as a true belief.
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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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All is always well even when it seems unbelievably unwell.
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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.
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Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true. It is the way Life suggests that you are not in harmony with what is.
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True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.
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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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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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Thoughts in your head are really no different than the sound of a bird outside. It is just that you decide that they are more or less relevant.
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