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1. "Time to cash in your chipsput your ideas and beliefs on the table.See who has the bigger handyou or the Mystery that pervades you.Time to scrape the mind's shitoff your shoesundo the lacesthat hold your prison togetherand dangle your toes into emptiness.Once you've put everythingon the tableonce all of your currency is goneand your pockets are full of airall you've got left to gamble withis yourself.Go ahead, climb up onto the velvet topof the highest stakes table.Place yourself as the bet.Look God in the eyesand finallyfor once in your lifelose." ~ Adyashanti

2. "My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better." ~ Adyashanti

3. "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." ~ Adyashanti

4. "At first it seemsas if begoing follows becoming.But look even closerand you will seethat there are onlyflashes of lightningilluminating the empty sky." ~ Adyashanti

5. "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." ~ Adyashanti

6. "If you think that people should be nice to one another, then byall means be nice. But when you project that belief onto thepeople and the world around you as if it were an objective reality,or worse still, as if it were their job to be nice to you, you putyourself at odds with what is, and suffering will surely follow." ~ Adyashanti

7. "The aim of my teaching is enlightenment, awakening from the dream state of separateness into the reality of the One. In short, my teaching is focused on realizing what you are." ~ Adyashanti

8. "If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life." ~ Adyashanti

9. "In the end it's all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don't." ~ Adyashanti

10. "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?" ~ Adyashanti

11. "If you prefer smoke over firethen get up now and leave.For I do not intend to perfumeyour mind's clothingwith more sooty knowledge.No, I have something else in mind.Today I hold a flame in my left handand a sword in my right.There will be no damage control today.For God is in a moodto plunder your riches andfling you nakedlyinto such breathtaking povertythat all that will be left of youwill be a tendency to shine.So don't just sit around this flamechoking on your mind.For this is no campfire songto mindlessly mantra yourself to sleep with.Jump now into the spacebetween thoughtsand exit this dreambefore I burn the damn place down." ~ Adyashanti

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It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?"
Author: Algernon H. Blackwood