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Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true. It is the way Life suggests that you are not in harmony with what is.
Adyashanti
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Adyashanti
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 1
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Steven Gray
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To be here, all you have to do is let go of who you think you are. That's all! And then you realize, I'm here. Here is where thoughts aren't believed. Every time you come here, you are nothing. Radiantly nothing. Absolutely and eternally zero. Emptiness that is awake. Emptiness that is full. Emptiness that is everything.
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Enlightenment is a destructive process.
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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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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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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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Many people think that it is the function of a spiritual teaching to provide answers to life's biggest questions, but actually, the opposite is true. The primary task of any good spiritual teaching is not to answer your questions, but to question your answers.
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Truth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is discovered minute to minute or not at all.
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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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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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If you think that people should be nice to one another, then by all means be nice. But when you project that belief onto the people and the world around you as if it were an objective reality, or worse still, as if it were their job to be nice to you, you put yourself at odds with what is, and suffering will surely follow.
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Awareness isn’t something we own awareness isn’t something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.
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Feel this moment, see it with a willingness to experience it deeply, whether it be good, bad, or indifferent. Emotionally and feelingly be fully present, right here, vulnerable, with your heart. Just be present. Don't live from your conditioned mind, live from unconditional truth.
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This awake silence is available to anyone in this moment. All you have to do is stop using your mind to look for it. It doesn't know where to find it.
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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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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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The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda.
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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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Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.
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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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True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.
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