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• Our illusions-the beliefs we hold on to-are the very doorways to our freedom. We simply have to enter through them without grasping or pushing away. We must not believe them, but we must not run away from them either. We need to see each moment of apparent bondage as an invitation to freedom. Then it becomes an act of love, an act of compassion, to stop running away.

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  Running, Believe, Compassion

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• The mind wants to land, to fixate, to hold a concept, but the only way you can be really free is by not fixating. That's part of true maturity, and it's one of the hardest things for spiritual people who have had true and powerful revelations to go through - to accept the degree of surrender needed to literally let go of all experience and all self-reference. Even in great revelations, there is almost always something that wants to claim, "I am this." Every time you claim, "I am this", you just claimed another sense perception, thought, emotion, or feeling.

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  Letting Go, Spiritual, Powerful

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• Reality is always true to itself. When you're in harmony with it, you experience bliss. As soon as you are not in harmony with it, you experience pain. This is the law of the universe; it is the way things are. Nobody gets out of this law.

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  Pain, Stress, Reality

  Adyashanti (2010). “The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment”, p.33, Sounds True

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• To be free of fear is to be full of Love.

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  Love

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• There is, quite literally, nothing to understand.

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

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  Infinite, Empty, Boxes

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• No matter what spiritual path you've walked or what teachings you've followed, they must lead you back to no path and no teaching. A true teaching is like a blazing fire that consumes itself. The teaching must not only consume you, but consume itself as well. All must be burned to ash, and then the ash must be burned. Then, and only then, is the Ultimate realized.

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  Spiritual, Teaching, Fire

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• There is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.

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  Consciousness, Individual, Conscious

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• In liberation, you stand alone. You stand alone because you need no supports of any kind. You need no supports because you have realized that the very notion of a separate you no longer exists, that there is nothing to support, that the whole ego experience was a flimsy illusion. So you stand alone but are never, never lonely because everywhere you look, all you see is That, and you are That.

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  Lonely, Support, Ego

  "Stand Alone" by Adyashanti, www.adyashanti.org. 1997.

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• When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable. It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we are not relating from the truth. It's a beautiful pointer. It never fails.

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  Beautiful, Mean, Suffering

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• One doesn't stay in a state of nirvana by hiding from difficulties. You stay in nirvana by lavishing nirvana on everyone you meet, by giving it away as fast as you receive it.

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  Giving, Hiding, States

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• Thoughts are just moving through consciousness. They have no power. Nothing has reality until you reach it, grab it, and somehow impregnate it with the power of belief.

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  Moving, Reality, Belief

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.70, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn't that what silence is? It's a listening, a deep wordless listening.

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  Silence, Listening, Looks

  Adyashanti (2011). “Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering”, p.87, Sounds True

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• Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.

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  Enlightenment, Natural, Ends

  Adyashanti (2012). “True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness”, p.11, Sounds True

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• No one can give you the strength of character necessary... Only you can find that passion within that burns with an integrity that will not settle for anything less than the Truth.

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  Integrity, Passion, Character

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• When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.

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  Moving, Emptiness, Eternity

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• The willingness to not bypass illusion is very important. We come to nirvana by way of samsara. We come to see the true nature of things by seeing through the illusory nature of things. We don't come to nirvana by avoiding samsara. We don't come to clarity by avoiding confusion.

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  Confusion, Important, Way

  Adyashanti (2010). “The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment”, p.49, Sounds True

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• You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.

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  Joy, Mystery, Incredibles

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing”, p.174, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Life sustains itself. Let go of the ego and life takes care of itself through you.

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  Life, Letting Go, Ego

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• Human beings have a drive for security and safety, which is often what fuels the spiritual search. This very drive for security and safety is what causes so much misery and confusion. Freedom is a state of complete and absolute insecurity and not knowing. So, in seeking security and safety, you actually distance yourself from the freedom you want. There is no security in freedom, at least not in the sense that we normally think of security. This is, of course, why it is so free: there's nothing there to grab hold of.

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  Spiritual, Distance, Thinking

  "Freedom and the Unknown". www.adyashanti.org. 2002.

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• If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.

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  Self, Leap, Chosen

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• The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda.

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  Running, Reality, Agendas

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.45, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It is easy to imagine that the Buddha, the awakened one, is something or somewhere other than here or that awakening to reality will happen sometime other than now. But as long as we continue to think in terms of time we will deceive ourselves. The you who is chasing enlightenment will never become enlightened.
  
  Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn't exist?

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  Time, Reality, Thinking

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• A meditative mind is at ease because it's not trying to acquire anything.

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  Mind, Trying, Ease

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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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  Doubt, Negative, Cynicism

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