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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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The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.
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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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Stop all doing and be still. Let the fire of stillness burn everything and reveal That which is Openness.
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When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.
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When you begin to become conscious, more aware, when your eyes begin to open, the first thing you see is how deluded you are and how much you're holding onto that which makes you suffer. This is, in many ways, the most important step: Are you willing to be aware?
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Our own intuition of what we're called to is reality speaking to us individually and perfectly. We have to listen to how the Infinite talks to us and leads us. Reality, Life the Infinite, God, has a way of leading us in just the perfect way, if we will only just listen to it.
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The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being.
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Real meditation is not about mastering a technique it's about letting go of control.
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Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretence. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.
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What is really important you can't understand with your mind.
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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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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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Inherent in the impulse to be free, is insecurity. The impulse to be free comes from outside of the mind, and because of this, it makes the mind feel very insecure. Most spiritual seekers move away from this insecurity by seeking and striving for a distant spiritual goal. That's how they avoid feeling insecure.
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Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.
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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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We realize--often quite suddenly--that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who we are. It doesn't define us, it has no center.
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As I often tell my students, the person you’ll have the hardest time opening to and truly loving without reserve is yourself. Once you can do that, you can love the whole universe unconditionally.
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The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda.
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