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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.
Adyashanti
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Adyashanti
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 1
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California
Steven Gray
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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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You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.
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The process of finding the truth may not be a process by which we feel increasingly better and better. It may be a process by which we look at things honestly, sincerely, truthfully, and that may or may not be an easy thing to do.
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The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.
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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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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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The realization of Truth and Reality can never be created by the mind ... it always comes as a gift of grace. Inquiry clears away misperceptions and illusions, making one available to the movements of grace.
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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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If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.
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When the eternal and the human meet, that's where love is born -- not through escaping our humanity or trying to disappear into transcendence, but through finding that place where they come into union.
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At first it seems as if begoing follows becoming. But look even closer and you will see that there are only flashes of lightning illuminating the empty sky.
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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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Completion comes when we not just wake up from all form, from all identification, but when love causes us to re-embrace it all.
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Our yearning for truth actually comes from truth.
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Freedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom.
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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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You will only lose when you resist reality you will only struggle when you disagree with what is.
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Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.
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The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.
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The aim of my teaching is enlightenment, awakening from the dream state of separateness into the reality of the One. In short, my teaching is focused on realizing what you are.
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