"...and part of consciousness is really beginning to realize the power of choice. Now choice is one of these profound paradoxes that lies at the very center of the illumined view of reality...as we become more conscious, as we begin to awaken, we start to come into a dimension of experience, a dimension of reality, where there is choice...This is a real key to our freedom, to liberation, and to really bringing a much more illumined state of consciousness into the way we're relating. When we arrive at a certain state of consciousness, all of sudden we begin to have real choice - actual choice. And to begin to exercise this choice, it requires that we have a capacity to come into a really deep state of stillness..." ~ Adyashanti, from The Key to Liberation in "The One of Us" by Adya & Mukti
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Adyashanti, author of The Direct Way, Sacred Inquiry, Emptiness Dancing, The Way of Liberation, Falling into Grace, True Meditation, and The End of Your World, is an American-born spiritual teacher devoted to serving the awakening of all beings. His teachings are an open invitation to stop, inquire, and recognize what is true and liberating at the core of all existence.
Adyashanti (whose name means “primordial peace”) is an American-born spiritual teacher. Asked to teach in 1996 by his Zen teacher of 14 years, Adyashanti offers teachings that are free of any tradition or ideology. "The Truth I point to is not confined within any religious point of view, belief system, or doctrine, but is open to all and found within all."
For more please go to his website: adyashanti.opengatesangha.org/