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You can't look at what's looking. You can't think about that which is prior to thought.
Adyashanti
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Adyashanti
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 1
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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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Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.
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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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Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.
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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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We think there’s someplace other than here to get to—that’s what drives the whole pursuit. Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being, pure consciousness. This is actually the very substance of your own self and being.
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The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.
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Whenever you aren’t manipulating your experience, you’re meditating. As soon as you meditate because you think you should, you’re controlling your experience again, and you’ve squeezed all the value out of your meditation.
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The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.
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An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.
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What would happen if you were to allow everything to be exactly as it is? If you gave up the need for control, and instead embraced the whole of your experience in each moment that arose?
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True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.
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When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.
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The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.
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The question of being is everything. Nothing could be more important or consequential-n othing where the stakes run so high. To remain unconscious of being is to remain asleep to our own reality and therefore asleep to reality at large. The choice is simple: awaken to being or sleep an endless sleep.
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The world's problems are, by and large, human problems-the unavoidable consequence of egoic sleepwalking. If we care to look, all the signs are present to suggest that we are not only sleepwalking, but at times borderline insane as well.
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All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.
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Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.
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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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