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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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There is, quite literally, nothing to understand.
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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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Cessation of struggle is like free falling through space without a care in the world.
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True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.
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When we really start to take a look at who we think we are... we start to see that while we may have various thoughts, beliefs, and identities, they do not individually or collectively tell us who we are. [And yet] it is astounding how completely we humans define ourselves by the content of our minds, feelings, and history.
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The Way of Liberation is not a belief system it is something to be put into practice.
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Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.
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You can't lose what you serve. That's the secret. What you serve, you can't lose. What you don't serve and what you try to hold onto, you can't hold onto. It's always slipping out of your fingers.
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Whatever you resist, persists.
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Meditation is a teaching which offers you the possibility of breaking free of this egoic state of consciousness and coming into a whole new realization of who and what you truly are. And all this starts with the willingness to question. To pause for just a moment and realize that maybe you aren't who you imagine yourself to be.
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Feel this moment, see it with a willingness to experience it deeply, whether it be good, bad, or indifferent. Emotionally and feelingly be fully present, right here, vulnerable, with your heart. Just be present. Don't live from your conditioned mind, live from unconditional truth.
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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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Imagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.
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Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.
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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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If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.
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If you have any image of what the Truth is, slay it immediately because that's not it.
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Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.
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