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Nothingness is an absolute infinite potential, not an empty box.

Adyashanti

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Adyashanti
Age: 63
Born: 1962
Born: January 1
Spirituality
Teacher
Writer
Cupertino
California
Steven Gray
Nothingness
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You must choose between your attachments and happiness.
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When the eternal and the human meet, that's where love is born -- not through escaping our humanity or trying to disappear into transcendence, but through finding that place where they come into union.
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The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.
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The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.
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When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.
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The aim of my teaching is enlightenment, awakening from the dream state of separateness into the reality of the One. In short, my teaching is focused on realizing what you are.
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Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning 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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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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Embrace suffering, and you transform your relationship with what causes you to suffer, as well as your relationship with suffering itself.
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We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world.
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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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An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.
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