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Only something as insane as human beings would ever asked themselves if 'I'm good.' You don't find oak trees having existential crisis. 'I feel so rotten about myself. I don't produce as much acorns as the one next to me.'
Adyashanti
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Adyashanti
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 1
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What you run away from owns you. You are the dog on a leash. The most you can do is to tug against the leash.
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Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.
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In the end it’s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t.
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You can't lose what you serve. That's the secret. What you serve, you can't lose. What you don't serve and what you try to hold onto, you can't hold onto. It's always slipping out of your fingers.
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The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.
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At each moment we are expressing what we know ourselves to be. If we know ourselves very little we will express and manifest that unconsciousness of our true nature. If we know who and what we are very thoroughly, we will express and manifest that in what we do. It is all very simple.
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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.
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Thoughts in your head are really no different than the sound of a bird outside. It is just that you decide that they are more or less relevant.
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Take the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you.
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The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.
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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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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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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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