
The Way of Liberation: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

The greatest dream that we can have is to forget that we are dreaming. Lost in our mind’s imagined world of judgments, beliefs, and opinions, we are literally caught in a waking dream. For some it is a nightmare, for others a temporary reprieve in some imagined heaven. For most it is something in between.
Adyashanti • The Way of Liberation: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“The proof of a desire is found in the habit of response.”
Adyashanti • The Way of Liberation: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
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 a willingness to uncover and let go of any illusion that comes between you and the realization of Reality. Therefore, spirituality does not have to do with tim
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Realization does not guarantee this revolution; it simply makes it possible.
Adyashanti • The Way of Liberation: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
True Meditation is progressively letting go of the meditator without getting lost in the mind.
Adyashanti • The Way of Liberation: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
We are so busy and obsessed with our restless thinking about everything and everyone that we have mistaken our thinking about everything and everyone for everything and everyone. This tendency to take our thoughts to be real is what keeps the dream state intact and keeps us trapped within its domain of unconsciousness and strife.
Adyashanti • The Way of Liberation: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true.
Adyashanti • The Way of Liberation: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
To be able and willing to see yourself as you are, with all of your imperfections and illusions, requires genuine sincerity and courage. If we are constantly trying to hide from ourselves, we will never be able to awaken from our illusion of self.
Adyashanti • The Way of Liberation: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
There is a fine line between being truly open to the guidance of a spiritual teacher and regressing into a childish relationship where you abdicate your adulthood and project all wisdom and divinity onto the teacher. Each person needs to find a mature balance, being truly and deeply open to their spiritual guide without abdicating all of their auth
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