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Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn't exist?
Adyashanti
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Adyashanti
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 1
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Steven Gray
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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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If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.
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The proof of the depth and embodiment of your realization will be seen in your love relationship. That's where the proof is in the pudding. If it all collapses in your relationship, you have some work to do. And people do have a lot of difficulties in their relationships.
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Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?
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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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Refuse to disconnect from love and every relationship will be totally transformed even the relationship with yourself.
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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.
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Fear is very often a part of the spiritual path. When people sit down and meditate it's not at all uncommon for fear to arise at some point.
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One Zen master said, The whole universe is my true personality. This is a very wonderful saying... If you want to see what you truly are, open the window, and everything you see is in fact the expression of your inner reality. Can you embrace all of it?
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You are the doorway to the infinite.
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Nobody can give us what we really already are. Wouldn't it be terrible if somebody could give you what you really are? ...'cause if they could give it to you, they could take it away.
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Misery needs your conspiracy it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.
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What is really important you can't understand with your mind.
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The Truth doesn't answer anything. The Truth IS everything!
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Faith is a withholding of conclusion so that you allow what is to arise.
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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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One doesn't stay in a state of nirvana by hiding from difficulties. You stay in nirvana by lavishing nirvana on everyone you meet, by giving it away as fast as you receive it.
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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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In the end it’s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t.
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Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.
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