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Stop all doing and be still. Let the fire of stillness burn everything and reveal That which is Openness.
Adyashanti
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Adyashanti
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 1
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Cupertino
California
Steven Gray
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The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?
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As soon as you believe that a label you've put on yourself is true, you've limited something that is literally limitless, you've limited who you are into nothing but a thought.
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The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears.
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This moment in which you experience stillness is every moment. Don't let the mind seduce you into the past or future. Stay in the moment, and dare to consider that you can be free now.
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You are the doorway to the infinite.
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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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Thoughts in your head are really no different than the sound of a bird outside. It is just that you decide that they are more or less relevant.
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True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.
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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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The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.
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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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The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.
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True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.
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Grace is something that comes to us when we somehow find ourselves completely available, when we become openhearted and open-minded, and are willing to entertain the possibility that we may not know what we think we know.
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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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