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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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You must choose between your attachments and happiness.
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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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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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A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom.
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Grief, unresisted, is grace. It doesn't mean it doesn't hurt anymore, it doesn't mean it doesn't rip your heart out....In great grief, there's an incredible love in it. In love there's a tinge of bitter. In true love. My teacher used to say 'all love is bittersweet'. All things experienced fully, reveal their opposite.
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The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.
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The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but it does change.
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Meditation is not a technique to master it is the highest form of prayer, a naked act of love and effortless surrender into the silent abyss beyond all knowing
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Life sustains itself. Let go of the ego and life takes care of itself through you.
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Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.
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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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Ego is the movement of the mind toward objects of perception in the form of grasping, and away from objects in the form of aversion. This fundamentally is all the ego is. This movement of grasping and aversion gives rise to a sense of a separate 'me,' and in turn the sense of 'me' strengthens itself this way.
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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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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 isn’t something we own awareness isn’t something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.
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The truth is that you already are what you are seeking. You are looking for God with his eyes. I suggest you ask, What's ultimately behind this set of eyes? Turn around to see what is looking.
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