Trying to maintain a pleasant state and avoid an unpleasant state is actually the cause of sorrow. When you stop resisting, you see that what seems frightening is actually the absolute beauty of reality. When you see that everything is a momentary display of reality, then you stop resisting it. Resistance hurts, only every single time. Love is the state of nonresistance.
AdyashantiThere is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.
AdyashantiStop 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.
AdyashantiMisery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.
AdyashantiThere'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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