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Go ahead, climb up onto the velvet top of the highest stakes table. Place yourself as the bet. Look God in the eyes and finally, for once in your life, lose.
Adyashanti
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Adyashanti
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 1
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Steven Gray
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Spirituality does not require that you work hard toward achieving a result in the future as much as it requires you to be fully present, sincere and committed now, with absolute honesty and willingness to uncover and let go of any illusions that come between you and the realization of Reality.
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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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What is really important you can't understand with your mind.
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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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The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.
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The goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.
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The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.
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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.
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An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.
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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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The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?
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How do I integrate spirituality into my everyday life? Throw out the concept of spiritual life and everyday life. There is only life, undivided and whole.
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There's something more to life than what we see on the surface.
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Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness
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The willingness to not bypass illusion is very important. We come to nirvana by way of samsara. We come to see the true nature of things by seeing through the illusory nature of things. We don't come to nirvana by avoiding samsara. We don't come to clarity by avoiding confusion.
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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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The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.
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The truth is you can't try to let go. Trying is the opposite of letting go. To let go is to relinquish trying. To let go is much more like to let be.
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Gratitude is the appreciation of what is, of life, of existence, of anybody and anything, for just the way it is.
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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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