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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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Steven Gray
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Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.
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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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Stop all doing and be still. Let the fire of stillness burn everything and reveal That which is Openness.
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In silence a question has great power, because in silence a question will always lead you deeper into your experience. If there is no grounding in silence, a spiritual question is going to lead you into your mind.
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What the universe will manifest when you are in alignment with it is a lot more interesting than what you try to manifest
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Take the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you.
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Doubt is always accompanied by a pervasive cynicism that unconsciously puts a negative spin on whatever it touches.
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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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The goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.
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