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• Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.

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  Freedom, Ideas, People

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• There is, quite literally, nothing to understand.

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• Silence and stillness are not states and therefore cannot be produced or created. Silence is the non-state in which all states arise and subside. Silence, stillness and awareness are not states and can never be perceived in their totality as objects. Silence is itself the eternal witness without form or attributes. As you rest more profoundly as the witness, all objects take on their natural functionality, and awareness becomes free of the mind's compulsive contractions and identifications. It returns to its natural non-state of Presence.

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  Silence, Meditation, Mind

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• Feel this moment, see it with a willingness to experience it deeply, whether it be good, bad, or indifferent. Emotionally and feelingly be fully present, right here, vulnerable, with your heart. Just be present. Don't live from your conditioned mind, live from unconditional truth.

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  Heart, Mind, Vulnerable

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.232, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it's about letting go of control.

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  Letting Go, Real, Meditation

  Adyashanti (2012). “True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness”, p.12, Sounds True

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• Take the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you.

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  Arrows, Armor, Penetrate

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

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  Simple, Giving, Silence

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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.

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  Suffering, May, Want

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

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• The goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.

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  Christian, Buddhist, Buddhism

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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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  Past, Mind, Moments

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

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  Letting Go, Self, Whole

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• Freedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom.

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  Soul, Soul Searching, Disappearance

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• True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.

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  Letting Go, Meditation, Experience

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• To be here, all you have to do is let go of who you think you are. That's all! And then you realize, "I'm here." Here is where thoughts aren't believed. Every time you come here, you are nothing. Radiantly nothing. Absolutely and eternally zero. Emptiness that is awake. Emptiness that is full. Emptiness that is everything.

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  Letting Go, Zero, Thinking

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.186, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Spirituality does not require that you work hard toward achieving a result in the future as much as it requires you to be fully present, sincere and committed now, with absolute honesty and willingness to uncover and let go of any illusions that come between you and the realization of Reality.

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  Letting Go, Honesty, Hard Work

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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.

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  Real, Integrity, Mean

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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.

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  Love, Freedom, Mean

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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?

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  Reality, Expression, Personality

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

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• The most difficult thing for spiritual seekers to do is to stop struggling, striving, seeking, and searching. Why? Because in the absence of struggle you don't know who you are; you lose your boundaries, you lose your separateness, you lose your specialness, you lose the dream you have lived all your life. Eventually you lose everything that your mind has created and awaken to who you truly are: the fullness of freedom, unbound by any identifications, identities, or boundaries.

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  Life, Dream, Spiritual

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• What if you let go of every bit of control and every urge that you have, right down to the most infinitesimal urge to control anything, anywhere, including anything that may be happening with you at this moment? If you were able to give up control absolutely, totally, and completely, then you would be a spiritually free being.

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  Letting Go, Giving Up, Light

  Adyashanti (2006). “Emptiness Dancing”, p.105, Sounds True

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

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  Awakening, Belief, Barriers

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

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• The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being.

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  Positive Thinking, Being Positive, Honest

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

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  Thinking, Doe, Use

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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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  Believe, Labels, Limitless

  Adyashanti (2011). “Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering”, p.19, Sounds True

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• The truth is you can't try to let go. Trying is the opposite of letting go. To let go is to relinquish trying. To let go is much more like to let be.

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  Letting Go, Opposites, Trying

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