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When someone says, 'I love you,' he is telling you about himself, not you. When someone says, 'I hate you,' she is telling you about herself, not you. World views are self views-literally.
Adyashanti
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Adyashanti
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 1
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Steven Gray
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This world is not my concern it is myself.
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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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Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.
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The biggest embrace of love you'll ever make is to embrace yourself completely. Then you'll realize you've just embraced the whole universe, and everything and everybody 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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Nobody can give us what we really already are. Wouldn't it be terrible if somebody could give you what you really are? ...'cause if they could give it to you, they could take it away.
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It is one thing to touch a flame and know it is hot, but quite another to jump into that flame and be consumed by it.
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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.
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Nothingness is an absolute infinite potential, not an empty box.
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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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The door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of that uncertainty and all wisdom will be yours.
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A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.
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The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda.
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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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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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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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Embrace suffering, and you transform your relationship with what causes you to suffer, as well as your relationship with suffering itself.
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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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Be a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don't expect it to be easy or even noticed.
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