Adyashanti Quotes - Page 3

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• If you think that people should be nice to one another, then by
  all means be nice. But when you project that belief onto the
  people and the world around you as if it were an objective reality,
  or worse still, as if it were their job to be nice to you, you put
  yourself at odds with what is, and suffering will surely follow.

  Adyashanti

  Jobs, Nice, Mean

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• Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.

  Adyashanti

  Teacher, Time, Teaching

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• In order to be truly free, you must desire to know the truth more than you want to feel good. Because, if feeling good is your goal, then as soon as you feel better you will lose interest in what is true. This does not mean that feeling good or experiencing love and bliss is a bad thing. Given the choice, anyone would choose to feel bliss rather than sorrow. It simply means that if this desire to feel good is stronger than the yearning to see, know, and experience Truth, then this desire will always be distorting the perception of what is Real, while corrupting one's deepest integrity.

  Adyashanti

  Real, Integrity, Mean

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• Has it ever occurred to you that you are seeking God with His eyes?

  Adyashanti

  Eye, His Eyes, Seeking God

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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.

  Adyashanti

  Real, Suffering, Way

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• In the heart of a human being,
  emptiness becomes love.
  When we touch that Source,
  instantly the love is present.
  Literally, the divine becomes human
  and the human becomes divine.

  Adyashanti

  Heart, Love Is, Emptiness

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• Stop all delays, all seeking and all striving. Put down your concepts, ideas and beliefs. For one instant be still and directly encounter the silent unknown core of your being. In that instant Freedom will embrace you and reveal the Awakening that you are.

  Adyashanti

  Ideas, Encounters, Delay

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• True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.

  Adyashanti

  Prayer, Goal, Meditation

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• Whatever you want, be it. If you want connection, it's because you are connection. Be what you want, and then it happens all around you. If you want love, be it. You'll have more love than you know what to do with. Whatever you are inside, you receive a thousandfold on the outside.

  Adyashanti

  Love Is, Connections, Want

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• The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears.

  Adyashanti

  Resistance, Paradox, Accepted

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• In the end it’s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t.

  Adyashanti

  Simple, Giving, Silence

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• An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.

  Adyashanti

  Freedom, Men, Ordinary

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• Ego is neither positive nor negative. Those are simply concepts that create more boundaries. Ego is just ego, and the disaster of it all is that you, as a spiritual seeker, have been conditioned to think of the ego as bad, as an enemy, as something to be destroyed. This simply strengthens the ego. In fact, such conclusions arise from the ego itself. Pay no attention to them. Don't go to war with yourself; simply inquire into who you are.

  Adyashanti

  Spiritual, War, Thinking

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• The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.

  Adyashanti

  Awakening, Belief, Barriers

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing”, p.8, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When you let go of the egoic self what you're getting in exchange is the whole universe.

  Adyashanti

  Letting Go, Self, Whole

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• True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.

  Adyashanti

  Thinking, Doe, Use

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• The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. When you start to see the light that you really are, the light waking up in you, the radiance, you realize it has no intention to change you. It has no intention to harmonize. It has no agenda. It just happens. The Truth is the only thing you'll ever run into that has no agenda. Everything else will have an agenda.

  Adyashanti

  Running, Light, Mind

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• True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.

  Adyashanti

  Letting Go, Meditation, Experience

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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?

  Adyashanti

  Reality, Expression, Personality

  Adyashanti (2011). “Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering”, p.220, Sounds True

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• All is always well even when it seems unbelievably unwell.

  Adyashanti

  Wells, Seems

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• When you stand in your own authority, based in your own direct experience, you meet that ultimate mystery that you are. Even though it may be at first unsettling to look into your own no-thingness, you do it anyway. Why? Because you no longer want to suffer. Because you're willing to be disturbed. You're willing to be amazed. You're willing to be surprised. You're willing to realize that maybe everything you've ever thought about yourself really isn't true.

  Adyashanti

  Suffering, May, Want

  Adyashanti (2011). “Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering”, p.18, Sounds True

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• Enlightenment is the natural state of consciousness, the innocent state of consciousness, that state which is uncontaminated by the movement of thought, uncontaminated by control or manipulation of mind.

  Adyashanti

  Mind, Enlightenment, Movement

  Adyashanti (2012). “True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness”, p.15, Sounds True

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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.

  Adyashanti

  Life, Thinking, Awakening

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• All you have to do is say "yes." Don't make some big project out of it. Don't make some big deal out of it. Just say "yes." You don't even know what it means to say "yes," but you say it anyway. You'll never know what it means to say "yes," but you do it anyway. Freedom and Love arise when you die into the unknown mystery of being.

  Adyashanti

  Love, Freedom, Mean

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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.

  Adyashanti

  Love Is, Escaping, Humanity

  Adyashanti (2014). “Resurrecting Jesus: Embodying the Spirit of a Revolutionary Mystic”, p.114, Sounds True

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