Adyashanti Quotes

Fear is very often a part of the spiritual path. When people sit down and meditate it's not at all uncommon for fear to arise at some point.

As I often tell my students, the person you’ll have the hardest time opening to and truly loving without reserve is yourself. Once you can do that, you can love the whole universe unconditionally.

Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.

Completion comes when we not just wake up from all form, from all identification, but when love causes us to re-embrace it all.

Truth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is discovered minute to minute or not at all.

Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness

The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.

Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.

Nobody can give us what we really already are. Wouldn't it be terrible if somebody could give you what you really are? ...'cause if they could give it to you, they could take it away.

Faith is a withholding of conclusion so that you allow what is to arise.

The aim of my teaching is enlightenment, awakening from the dream state of separateness into the reality of the One. In short, my teaching is focused on realizing what you are.

Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.

In the heart of a human being, emptiness becomes love. When we touch that Source, instantly the love is present. Literally, the divine becomes human and the human becomes divine.

There is, quite literally, nothing to understand.

Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.

If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.

Nothing appears to be something. The human experience is a senseory organ for the divine self. Through these eyes, the divine gets to see itself in form.

Take one step backward into the unknown.

All delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we’re talking to ourselves and then believing what we are saying.

To find out that you are empty of emptiness is to die into an aware mystery, which is the source of all existence.

Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.

What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.

Stop all doing and be still. Let the fire of stillness burn everything and reveal That which is Openness.

What is really important you can't understand with your mind.

Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true. It is the way Life suggests that you are not in harmony with what is.

The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.

The truth is you can't try to let go. Trying is the opposite of letting go. To let go is to relinquish trying. To let go is much more like to let be.

There is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.

Freedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom.

True Meditation is the space in which everything gets revealed, everything gets seen, everything gets experienced. And as such, it lets go of itself. We don't even let go. It lets go of itself.

Cessation of struggle is like free falling through space without a care in the world.

Whatever you resist, persists.

How do I integrate spirituality into my everyday life? Throw out the concept of "spiritual life" and "everyday life." There is only life, undivided and whole.

The Truth doesn't answer anything. The Truth IS everything!

My experience of fundamental Truth is that it’s a place of extraordinary intelligence. It’s a place from which great intelligence arises. I call it a place of absolute infinite potential.

You must want to know the truth more than you want to feel secure in order to fully awaken to the fact that you are nothing but Awakeness itself.

The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.

Our yearning for truth actually comes from truth.

You can't look at what's looking. You can't think about that which is prior to thought.

Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?

In True Meditation, we're in the body as a means to transcend it. It is paradoxical that the greatest doorway to the transcendence of form is through form itself.

If you have any image of what the Truth is, slay it immediately because that's not it.

The beautiful thing about the truth of being is that it's so unimaginably immediate.

Enlightenment is a destructive process.

When you argue with reality, reality always wins

The greatest dream that we can have is to forget that we are dreaming.

The changeless is what knows the change, the changeless is unconditioned