Adyashanti Quotes

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.

When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.

You are the doorway to the infinite.

Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.

All is always well even when it seems unbelievably unwell.

When we're in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose.

The door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of that uncertainty and all wisdom will be yours.

A meditative mind is at ease because it's not trying to acquire anything.

We realize--often quite suddenly--that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who we are. It doesn't define us, it has no center.

There's something more to life than what we see on the surface.

Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully.

Love causes us to be deeply connected in an unspoken way. It happens when we're really available, really open.

To be free of fear is to be full of Love.

Thoughts are just moving through consciousness. They have no power. Nothing has reality until you reach it, grab it, and somehow impregnate it with the power of belief.

What would happen if you were to allow everything to be exactly as it is? If you gave up the need for control, and instead embraced the whole of your experience in each moment that arose?

Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.

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.

You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.

What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make through personal investigation.

Refuse to disconnect from love and every relationship will be totally transformed; even the relationship with yourself.

The silence inside of you is the sound of your knowledge collapsing. Remember, it is you who said, 'I want to be free.'

When you realize what you are now, the issue of death will solve itself.

The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?

Life itself is nothing but relationship.

Whatever you can become will ultimately be destroyed. Only what you already are can't be taken away.

If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.

What you run away from owns you. You are the dog on a leash. The most you can do is to tug against the leash.

You must choose between your attachments and happiness.

Love moves without an agenda. It just moves because that is its nature to move.

No matter what identity we cling to, it takes great courage to step out of the old masks we wear and the old scripts that we live by, and open ourselves to the mysterious inner core of our being.

The truth is that you already are what you are seeking. You are looking for God with his eyes. I suggest you ask, "What's ultimately behind this set of eyes?" Turn around to see what is looking.

There's a fierceness about life that calls for a fierceness to not anxiously solve it but to allow it to transform you.

The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda.

My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.

No one can give you the strength of character necessary... Only you can find that passion within that burns with an integrity that will not settle for anything less than the Truth.

Go ahead, climb up onto the velvet top of the highest stakes table. Place yourself as the bet. Look God in the eyes and finally, for once in your life, lose.

Take the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you.

There's a great space in which this moment takes place. There's a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.

When you inquire 'Who am I?' if you are honest, you'll notice that it takes you right back to silence instantly. The brain doesn't have an answer, so all of a sudden there is silence.

It is one thing to touch a flame and know it is hot, but quite another to jump into that flame and be consumed by it.

All we really want in the end is to be connected once again with the Truth of our being, to realize what it is that wears this mask of self.

Nothingness is an absolute infinite potential, not an empty box.

When we really start to take a look at who we think we are, we become very grace prone.

Awareness isn’t something we own; awareness isn’t something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.

Embrace suffering, and you transform your relationship with what causes you to suffer, as well as your relationship with suffering itself.

If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume your mind's clothing with more sooty knowledge.

You think that enlightenment is something other than what is happening right now. This is your primary mistake.

Awakening to the truth is a deep realization of what you are as an experience. What is it that is listening? What is it that is feeling? Feel it. Sense it. Welcome it.

The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.

We must become expressions of, not consumers of, realization.