Adyashanti Quotes - Page 6

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• Let go of all ideas and images in your mind, they come and go and aren’t even generated by you. So why pay so much attention to your imagination when reality is for the realizing right now?

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  Letting Go, Reality, Ideas

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

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• No matter what identity we cling to, it takes great courage to step out of the old masks we wear and the old scripts that we live by, and open ourselves to the mysterious inner core of our being.

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  Identity, Scripts, Steps

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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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• 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.

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  Running, Light, Mind

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• The proof of the depth and embodiment of your realization will be seen in your love relationship. That's where the proof is in the pudding. If it all collapses in your relationship, you have some work to do. And people do have a lot of difficulties in their relationships.

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  People, Love Relationship, Depth

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• Ego is the movement of the mind toward objects of perception in the form of grasping, and away from objects in the form of aversion. This fundamentally is all the ego is. This movement of grasping and aversion gives rise to a sense of a separate 'me,' and in turn the sense of 'me' strengthens itself this way.

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  Giving, Ego, Mind

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• Love causes us to be deeply connected in an unspoken way. It happens when we're really available, really open.

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  Way, Causes, Connected

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• Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.

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  Love Is, Flames, Destruction

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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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• 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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• 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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• If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.

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  Attachment, Want, Consciousness

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• When we really start to take a look at who we think we are, we become very grace prone.

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  Thinking, Self, Grace

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• This awake silence is available to anyone in this moment.
  All you have to do is stop using your mind to look for it.
  It doesn't know where to find it.

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  Silence, Mind, Looks

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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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• 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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• At each moment we are expressing what we know ourselves to be. If we know ourselves very little we will express and manifest that unconsciousness of our true nature.
  If we know who and what we are very thoroughly, we will express and manifest that in what we do.
  It is all very simple.

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  Simple, Littles, Moments

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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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• 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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• As you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind's compulsive control, contractions, and identifications. Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.

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  Knowing, Mind, Return

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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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• It is one thing to touch a flame and know it is hot, but quite another to jump into that flame and be consumed by it.

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  Flames, Hot, Burning

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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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• There's a great space in which this moment takes place. There's a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.

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  Space, Silence, Listening

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• What you run away from owns you. You are the dog on a leash. The most you can do is to tug against the leash.

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  Running, Dog, Leashes

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