Quotes by Mind But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds. Adrienne Rich body mother mind Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life. Adrienne Rich knives cake mind The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind. Adrienne Rich body mind The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell. Adrienne Rich obscurity passion mind 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. Adyashanti moments mind past 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. Adyashanti silence meditation mind If you tell yourself a sad story, the body reacts to that. And if you tell yourself a self-aggrandizing story, the body feels puffed up, confident. But when you realize it’s all stories, there can be a vast waking up out of the mind, out of the dream. You don’t awaken, what has eternally been awake realizes itself. That which is eternally awake is what you are. Adyashanti self mind dream The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but it does change. Adyashanti light mind needs The body is a sensing instrument of consciousness. Without the body and mind, Adyashanti mind tree thinking Enlightenment is the natural state of consciousness, the innocent state of consciousness, that state which is uncontaminated by the movement of thought, uncontaminated by control or manipulation of mind. Adyashanti enlightenment movement mind 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. Adyashanti ego mind giving The Buddha's insight into the middle way is not simply about a balance between extremes. This conventional understanding misses the deeper revelation of the middle way as being the very nature of unexcelled enlightenment. The middle way is an invitation to leap beyond nirvana and samsara and to realize the unborn Buddha mind right in the middle of everywhere. Adyashanti understanding missing mind A meditative mind is at ease because it's not trying to acquire anything. Adyashanti mind ease trying The realization of Truth and Reality can never be created by the mind ... it always comes as a gift of grace. Inquiry clears away misperceptions and illusions, making one available to the movements of grace. Adyashanti grace mind reality 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. Adyashanti return knowing mind This awake silence is available to anyone in this moment. Adyashanti silence mind looks A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom. Adyashanti mind heart integrity Have you noticed, with whatever quality of love you have experienced, that when true love arises, it opens up both your mind and emotions? It's an openness to whatever is happening. Adyashanti quality mind love The mind may accept or deny that you are awareness, but either way it can’t really understand. It cannot comprehend. Thought cannot comprehend what is beyond thought. Adyashanti mind may way As soon as the mind pulls out an agenda and decides what needs to change, that's unreality. Life doesn't need to decide who's right and who's wrong. Life doesn't need to know the "right" way to go because it's going there anyway. Adyashanti mind life needs «23456789101112»
