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if you really want to know spirituality, don’t look for anything. People think spirituality is about looking for God or truth or the ultimate. The problem is you have already defined what you are looking for. It is not the object of your search that is important; it is the faculty of looking. The ability to simply look without motive is missing in the world today.
Seeking is not about looking for something. It is about enhancing your perception, your very faculty of seeing.
The only thing that stands between you and your wellbeing is a simple fact: you have allowed your thoughts and emotions to take instruction from the outside rather than the inside.
Right now, these aren’t taking instructions from you because you are handling the whole human mechanism accidentally.
As a result, the simple life process is taking a toll upon humanity. Just to earn a living, to reproduce, to raise a family, and then one day to fall dead—what a challenge! It is amazing how human beings struggle just to do what every worm, insect, bird, and animal does quite effortlessly.
Human life is longing for unlimited expansion, and that is the only thing that will settle you for good.
Mysticism on this planet evolved only in those places where people learned the technology of being ecstatic by their own nature. This is because only when you are blissful will you be in the highest state of receptivity, and truly willing to explore all aspects of life. Otherwise, you would not dare, because if keeping yourself pleasant is a big challenge, you can’t take on other challenges.
The reason the simple things—like being peaceful, joyful, loving—have become ultimate aspirations is that people are living without paying any attention to the life process.
The one thing they miss is life—the life process itself, the essential life that is you. The moment you make this fundamental mistake of identifying something that is not you as yourself, life becomes an unnecessary struggle.
The foundations of peace and bliss are not about attending to the external realities of your life, but in accessing and organizing the inner nature of your being.
If you do not identify with anything you have accumulated over a period of time, including your body and mind, you will be able to experience this.
Enlightenment is not an attainment or an achievement. It is a homecoming. Your senses give you the impression that you are experiencing the outside, but you have never experienced the outside. When you realize that all that you experience is within, that absolute homecoming is enlightenment.
My life is just devoted to evolving methods so that people can experien...
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If we truly have to create solutions that are relevant for all, an experience of absolute inclusiveness has to happen...
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To attain the ecstasy of borderless unity, which is our natural state, all you need to do is live by the guideline that all human experience is generated from within—either with the support of external stimuli or without. That is all. If you establish this within yourself absolutely, the consequences of your transactions will no longer be burdensome.
Unlike biological evolution, which happens without our conscious participation, spiritual evolution can happen consciously. All it takes, Adiyogi told us, is willingness.
If you go outward, it is an endless journey. If you turn inward, it is just one moment. In that one moment, everything changes. In that one moment, you are not in pursuit of joy anymore. Instead, your life becomes an expression of your joyfulness.
But turning inward is the first step from passivity to agency—from being a victim toward becoming a master of your own destiny.
To be
human means you can mold situations you are living in the way you want them. But today most people in the world are molded by the situations in
which they exist. This is simply because they live in reaction to situati...
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Whatever we do not want to take responsibility for, whatever we cannot make sense of logically, we label “destiny.” It is a consoling word, but disempowering.
To mold situations the way you want them you must first know who you are. The crux of the matter is that you don’t
yet know who you are. Who you are is not the sum total of accumulations you have made. Everything that you currently know a...
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Who then are you? That is yet to come into your experience. That is still in an unconscious state. You are trying to live your life through what you have
gathered, not through who you are. What’s more, you are not even a hundred percent conscious of what you have gathered!
you can completely rewire yourself in a short span of time!
Everything in this existence is happening naturally according to a certain organic law. If you know the nature of life within you, you can completely take charge of the way it happens, but within the broad parameters set by the laws of nature. What
Your destiny is written by you unconsciously. If you have mastery over your physical body, fifteen to twenty percent of your life and destiny will be in your hands. If you have mastery over your mind, fifty to sixty percent of your life and destiny will be in your hands. If you have mastery over your life energies, a hundred percent of your life and destiny will be in your hands.
Unpleasantness is happening to you, in the form of anger, fear, anxiety, and stress, because your basic faculties—your body, mind, and life energies—are doing their own thing. When mind and body exist only to serve the life within you, why is your life currently enslaved to the mind and body? Isn’t this a complete distortion of the way life should function?
It simply means making yourself in such a way that, whatever the events and situations around you, you don’t get crushed by them; you ride them.
The spiritual process is not about imposing your ideas on existence; it is about making yourself in such a way that the creation and the Creator, and every atom in this existence, cannot help yielding to you.
If you learn how to live it, life is nothing short of a daily miracle.
Unless you do the right things, the right things will not happen to you. Principles and philosophies are only of social consequence. It is time to wake up to yourself as an existential being, a living being, rather than a psychological case. Then your destiny will be your own. One hundred percent your own. This is not an idle promise. It is a guarantee.
The quality of our lives is determined by our ability to respond to the varied complex situations that we encounter. If the ability to respond with intelligence,
competence, and sensitivity is compromised by a compulsive or reactive approach, we are enslaved by the situation. It means we have allowed the nature of our life experience to be determined by our circumstances, not by us.
Being fully responsible is to be ful...
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What is beyond that— which you did not gather—is who you are.
It is time to reclaim for ourselves the extraordinary transformative power of this single word: responsibility. Apply it to your life, and watch the magic unfold.
Responsibility does not mean taking on the burdens of the world. It does not mean accepting blame for things you have done or not done. It does not mean living in a state of perpetual guilt.
Responsibility simply means your ability to respond. If you decide, “I am
responsible,” you will have the ability to respond. If you decide, “I am not responsible,” you will no...
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All it requires is for you to realize that you are responsible for all that you are and all that you are not, all that may happen to y...
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This ability to respond to the entire universe is already a physical reality. It is only your thoughts and emotions that need to become conscious of the fact.
Once you take responsibility, you will invariably start exploring ways to address the situation. You will look for solutions.
If you are frequently in this mode, your ability to craft your life situations will keep enhancing itself. With this enhanced competence to deal with life and its multiple complexities, you begin to rise to positions of possibility and power.
If you assume absolute responsibility within yourself for all that is around you, you will become the center of any situation at home, work, or even the universe. Since you become indispensable to these situations, there is ...
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Only if you realize you are responsible do you have the freedom to create yoursel...
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Reactivity is enslavement. Responsibili...
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Your outer life may not be a hundred percent in your control, but your inner life always will.
