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An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.
Adyashanti
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Adyashanti
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 1
Spirituality
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Cupertino
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Steven Gray
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More quotes by Adyashanti
Imagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.
Adyashanti
We must leave the entire collection of conditioned thought behind and let ourselves be led by the inner thread of silence into the unknown, beyond where all paths end, to that place where we go innocently or not at all, not once but continually.
Adyashanti
True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.
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Misery needs your conspiracy it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.
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Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering. If you resist confusion,you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them.
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This world is not my concern it is myself.
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The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears.
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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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Self-inquiry is a spiritually induced form of wintertime. It's not about looking for a right answer so much as stripping away and letting you see what is not necessary, what you can do without, what you are without your leaves.
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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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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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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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If we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn't that what silence is? It's a listening, a deep wordless listening.
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The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.
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Faith is a withholding of conclusion so that you allow what is to arise.
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When you begin to become conscious, more aware, when your eyes begin to open, the first thing you see is how deluded you are and how much you're holding onto that which makes you suffer. This is, in many ways, the most important step: Are you willing to be aware?
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Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.
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Question your thoughts. Question your stories. Question your assumptions. Question your opinions. Question your conclusions. Question them all into utter emptiness, stillness and joy. The keys to freedom are in your hands. Use them.
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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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Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.
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