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Quotes from The Basic Teachings - Part 1: Principles of the Teaching — Adyashanti

born 1962 United States

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Suffering is caused by identification with egoic consciousness. When we identify with egoic consciousness, we go unconscious or become unaware of our true nature as conscious spirit.

The Basic Teachings - Part 1: Principles of the Teaching (2009)

You can't get rid of thoughts, and you can't get rid of thinking. To battle your mind is one of the most deceptive ways that the mind keeps you in its own domain.

The Basic Teachings - Part 1: Principles of the Teaching (2009)

To have enough curiosity to start to question your deepest identity is absolutely vital and essential to spiritual awakening, and to the realization of peace and freedom.

The Basic Teachings - Part 1: Principles of the Teaching (2009)

Every human being... the way they move in live, how they act, is completely dictated by what they value.

The Basic Teachings - Part 1: Principles of the Teaching (2009)

Awakened values are not really based in morality. They're not based in should or shouldn'ts. Awakened values are values that are inherent within conscious spirit.

The Basic Teachings - Part 1: Principles of the Teaching (2009)

The mind is something that happens within you. Thinking is something that happens within what you are. Thinking does not define what you are. Thinking doesn't define anything.

The Basic Teachings - Part 1: Principles of the Teaching (2009)

Egoic consciousness is something that the vast majority of people live in almost all the time. Humanity is by and large caught in this realm of egoic consciousness, and therefore manifests it in the way that we, human beings, live our lives - both individually and collectively.

The Basic Teachings - Part 1: Principles of the Teaching (2009)

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