… Continuing the conversation about judging, evaluating and accepting life as it is. These words from Adyashanti moved me today. May they touch you also and bring a deeper connection with your inner being and life itself.

“The greatest generator of conflict, both internal and external, is our addiction to interpreting and evaluating each and every moment of our experience.
When we continually judge and evaluate, we separate from what’s happening. We feel a certain distance from our experience, because now we have become the evaluator of the moment and we’re no longer in unity with the flow of existence and life.
As we begin to meet life as it is rather than as we think it should be, as we let go of our need to control and continuously interpret our experience, we start to open to life in a completely new way. We become deeply founded in silence.
The nature of this silence is a lack of conflict with life, and the more we open to this state of non conflict, to this state of inner stillness, we begin to fall into the grace of a different dimension of being – a dimension rooted in a deep intimacy with our own lives and with existence itself.”
Adyashanti
This is the truth I find when I meditate . . . everything is as it is and I am that I am.
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Yes Nancy ❤
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Very beautiful described and I agree, that it is found in meditation 😀
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Thank you for your kind words Irene. xo
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Oh that is so beautiful and profound!
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I agree Paul. I keep coming back to it and being drawn into that inner stillness.
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Oh wow! This just woke me right up!
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Glad the timing worked for you Louise 😉
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This quote brought to mind a time when running with a girlfriend, her right lens fell out of her glasses. She stopped, completely stymied by the fact it was her right lens. Oh no! What is it trying to tell me. This is my creative brain, what am I missing, where am I not seeing…… and on and on. Finally, I replied. perhaps all it’s saying is you had a screw loose. 🙂
Sometimes, we look for meaning when all that’s required is to simply tighten a screw.
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Haha … 😎
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Where I want to be: “deeply founded in silence.”
That image is so stunning!
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Me too Eliza! Thank you 🙂
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Letting go of control…I’m a WIP. 🙂
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It’s my life’s work too! Thank you Jill 🙂
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Beautiful wisdom. 🙂
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We know it when we see it don’t we Karen 🙂
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Oh, yes, Val!! Oh, yes!!! 🙂 ❤
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Thank you Lorrie. SO happy it resonates with you my friend 💛
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I agree with your comment Val, read, re-read, then read again. Thank you for posting 🙂
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Thank you!!
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On the same wavelength here!
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Ah yes … Thank you Julie!
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Interesting! I must admit Val that I continually seem to be evaluating… sigh ❤
Diana xo
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We are all a work in progress Diana 🙂
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This is so good Val. I love the last line especially…
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So glad it resonated with you Julie. The last line is powerful 💛
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Oh, so much wisdom here! Thanks for sharing, Val.
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Thank you Tiny for being here 🙂
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Reblogged this on Spirit Lights The Way and commented:
Here’s to allowing things to be “as they are” while we “go with the flow” and “embrace the now.”
Aah . . . that’s better!
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Thank you for a beautiful, thought-provoking quote. I like the inside-out view of the flower.
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Thank you Nicki for your kind words and stopping by 🙂
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I loved this so much Val.
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Thank you Lisa … Me too 🙂
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This was like a big hug. Thank you.
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Here’s an other one Vicki xoxo
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