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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.
Adyashanti
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Adyashanti
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 1
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Steven Gray
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When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what's left? A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are.
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True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.
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Space and stillness is the light that illuminates the beauty of our soul's being.
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Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.
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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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Misery needs your conspiracy it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.
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Meditation is not something restricted to times of formal seated meditation it is most fundamentally an attitude of being-a resting in and as being. Once you get the feel of it, you will be able to tune into it more and more often during your daily life. Eventually, in the state of liberation, meditation will simply become your natural condition.
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What is really important you can't understand with your mind.
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One Zen master said, The whole universe is my true personality. This is a very wonderful saying... If you want to see what you truly are, open the window, and everything you see is in fact the expression of your inner reality. Can you embrace all of it?
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If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.
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At any moment, we are either giving humanity the gift of our clarity or our confusion. And that clarity or confusion is affecting the humanity around us, the world around us. It is manifesting. It is taking form.
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The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.
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Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.
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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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We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world.
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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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When you let go of the egoic self what you're getting in exchange is the whole universe.
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True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.
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One doesn't stay in a state of nirvana by hiding from difficulties. You stay in nirvana by lavishing nirvana on everyone you meet, by giving it away as fast as you receive it.
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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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