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A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.

Adyashanti

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Adyashanti
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 1
Spirituality
Teacher
Writer
Cupertino
California
Steven Gray
Transcendence
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Acceptance
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What would happen if you were to allow everything to be exactly as it is? If you gave up the need for control, and instead embraced the whole of your experience in each moment that arose?
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You think that enlightenment is something other than what is happening right now. This is your primary mistake.
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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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Stop all doing and be still. Let the fire of stillness burn everything and reveal That which is Openness.
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Awakening to the truth is a deep realization of what you are as an experience. What is it that is listening? What is it that is feeling? Feel it. Sense it. Welcome it.
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In True Meditation, we're in the body as a means to transcend it. It is paradoxical that the greatest doorway to the transcendence of form is through form itself.
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The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.
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Whatever you resist, persists.
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Enlightenment is a destructive process.
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The mind may accept or deny that you are awareness, but either way it can’t really understand. It cannot comprehend. Thought cannot comprehend what is beyond thought.
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The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.
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The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears.
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What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.
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You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.
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Stop all delays, all seeking and all striving. Put down your concepts, ideas and beliefs. For one instant be still and directly encounter the silent unknown core of your being. In that instant Freedom will embrace you and reveal the Awakening that you are.
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