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Enlightenment is a destructive process.
Adyashanti
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Adyashanti
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 1
Spirituality
Teacher
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Cupertino
California
Steven Gray
Destructive
Enlightenment
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The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.
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As I often tell my students, the person you’ll have the hardest time opening to and truly loving without reserve is yourself. Once you can do that, you can love the whole universe unconditionally.
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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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Whatever you want, be it. If you want connection, it's because you are connection. Be what you want, and then it happens all around you. If you want love, be it. You'll have more love than you know what to do with. Whatever you are inside, you receive a thousandfold on the outside.
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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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When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.
Adyashanti
Now don't think that awakening is the end. Awakening is the end of seeking, the end of the seeker, but it is the beginning of a life lived from your true nature.
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We realize--often quite suddenly--that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who we are. It doesn't define us, it has no center.
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To be free of fear is to be full of Love.
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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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If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.
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Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.
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When you inquire 'Who am I?' if you are honest, you'll notice that it takes you right back to silence instantly. The brain doesn't have an answer, so all of a sudden there is silence.
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Whatever you resist, persists.
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What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make through personal investigation.
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We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world.
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The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.
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True sincerity reveals a powerful form of clarity and discernment that is necessary in order to perceive yourself honestly without flinching or being held captive by your conditioned mind's judgments and defensiveness.
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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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As soon as you believe that a label you've put on yourself is true, you've limited something that is literally limitless, you've limited who you are into nothing but a thought.
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