Adyashanti Quotes - Page 8

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• Deep down we all suspect that something is very wrong with the way we perceive life but we try very, very hard not to notice it. And the way we remain blind to our frightful condition is through an obsessive and pathological denial of being -- as if some dreadful fate would overcome us if we were to face the pure light of truth and lay bare our fearful clinging to illusion.

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  Fate, Light, Trying

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• The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.

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  Love, Spiritual, Truth

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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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  Running, Sleep, Simple

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• The Way of Liberation is not a belief system; it is something to be put into practice.

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  Practice, Way, Belief

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• The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.

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  Life, Heart, Lovers

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.110, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There's a fierceness about life that calls for a fierceness to not anxiously solve it but to allow it to transform you.

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  Solve, Fierceness

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• Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully.

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  Life, Knowledge, Love Is

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• The silence inside of you is the sound of your knowledge collapsing. Remember, it is you who said, 'I want to be free.'

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  Silence, Sound, Want

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• What am I, really? The beautiful thing...is nobody can tell us what we are. Nobody can really tell us. Not in a way that's going to be satisfactory to us. Our true nature is self-authenticating. When we bump into our true nature, it authenticates itself. Something inside us knows. This...is what has been sought for, longed for, looked for. This is it. Usually, it's not what we expected.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Self

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• The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.

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  Truth Is, Seeking

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It is good to remember that the goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians. In the same vein, my teachings are not meant to acquire followers or imitators, but to awaken beings to eternal truth and thus to awakened life and living.

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  Christian, Buddhist, Teaching

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• You must want to know the truth more than you want to feel secure in order to fully awaken to the fact that you are nothing but Awakeness itself.

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  Order, Awakening, Facts

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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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  Self, Ideas, Who We Are

  Adyashanti (2009). “The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Whenever you aren’t manipulating your experience, you’re meditating. As soon as you meditate because you think you should, you’re controlling your experience again, and you’ve squeezed all the value out of your meditation.

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  Thinking, Meditation, Should

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• The Buddha's insight into the middle way is not simply about a balance between extremes. This conventional understanding misses the deeper revelation of the middle way as being the very nature of unexcelled enlightenment. The middle way is an invitation to leap beyond nirvana and samsara and to realize the unborn Buddha mind right in the middle of everywhere.

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  Missing, Understanding, Mind

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• Whatever you resist, persists.

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  Persist

  Adyashanti (2010). “The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment”, p.69, Sounds True

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• Refuse to disconnect from love and every relationship will be totally transformed; even the relationship with yourself.

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  Refuse, Transformed

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• Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.

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  Awareness, Pursuit, Pure

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• Life itself is nothing but relationship.

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  Inspirational Life

  Adyashanti (2010). “The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment”, p.62, Sounds True

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• There is profound responsibility in being Love... more than the mind could imagine or hold up under. If most human beings truly realized the impact that they have on the whole, they'd be crushed by the realization of it.

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  Responsibility, Impact, Profound

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• If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume your mind's clothing with more sooty knowledge.

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  Fire, Mind, Burning

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• There's something more to life than what we see on the surface.

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  More To Life, Surface

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• Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness

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  Enlightenment, Consciousness, States

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• You think that enlightenment is something other than what is happening right now. This is your primary mistake.

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  Mistake, Thinking, Enlightenment

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• At first it seems as if begoing follows becoming. But look even closer and you will see that there are only flashes of lightning illuminating the empty sky.

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  Journey, Sky, Becoming

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