Adyashanti Quotes

Quotes about:

• There is a very Simple Secret to being happy. Just let go of your 'demand' on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering. You're Arguing with 'What Is' - Your demands keep you chained to the 'dream-state' of the conditioned mind. The desire to 'control'... is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake.

  Adyashanti

  Letting Go, Dream, Simple

  159 Copy quote

• The biggest embrace of love you'll ever make is to embrace yourself completely. Then you'll realize you've just embraced the whole universe, and everything and everybody in it.

  Adyashanti

  Love You, Realizing, Embrace

  166 Copy quote

• Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering. If you resist confusion,you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them.

  Adyashanti

  Sad, Confused, Anger

  209 Copy quote

• Question your thoughts.
  Question your stories.
  Question your assumptions.
  Question your opinions.
  Question your conclusions.
  Question them all into utter emptiness, stillness and joy.
  The keys to freedom are in your hands.
  Use them.

  Adyashanti

  Freedom, Keys, Hands

  92 Copy quote

• Enlightenment is a destructive process. It
  has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the
  crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing
  through the facade of pretence. It's the
  complete eradication of everything we
  imagined to be true.

  Adyashanti

  Becoming Better, Enlightenment, Crumbling

  Adyashanti (2010). “The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment”, p.103, Sounds True

  152 Copy quote

• Your life, all of your life, is your path to awakening. By resisting or not dealing with its challenges, you stay asleep to Reality. Pay attention to what life is trying to reveal to you. Say yes to its fierce, ruthless, and loving grace.

  Adyashanti

  Reality, Grace, Challenges

  144 Copy quote

• The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.

  Adyashanti

  Flow, Harmony, Existence

  166 Copy quote

• 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?

  Adyashanti

  Meditation, Needs, Moments

  Adyashanti (2010). “True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness”, p.91, ReadHowYouWant.com

  10 Copy quote

• 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.

  Adyashanti

  Silence, Brain, Answers

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing”, p.71, ReadHowYouWant.com

  9 Copy quote

• Imagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.

  Adyashanti

  Silence, Imagine, Come Up

  26 Copy quote

• 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.

  Adyashanti

  Real, Suffering, Way

  7 Copy quote

• You will only lose when you resist reality; you will only struggle when you disagree with what is.

  Adyashanti

  Struggle, Reality, Loses

  18 Copy quote

• When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what's left? A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are.

  Adyashanti

  Ideas, Brightness, Awakening

  43 Copy quote

• The joke of it all is that you are looking from your true nature right now without knowing it. If you would stop being fascinated with the contents of your mind, you would experience what I am saying. Feel your way into what I am saying rather than thinking about it. Only a self-concept looks and longs for God. Drop your self-concept and there is only God meeting God. Enlightenment is the restoration of cosmic humor.

  Adyashanti

  Thinking, Self, Knowing

  17 Copy quote

• When someone tells you, 'I love you,' and then you feel, 'Oh, I must be worthy after all,' that's an illusion. That's not true. Or someone says, 'I hate you,' and you think, 'Oh, God, I knew it; I'm not very worthy,' that's not true either. Neither one of these thoughts hold any intrinsic reality. They are an overlay. When someone says, 'I love you,' he is telling you about himself, not you. When someone says, 'I hate you,' she is telling you about herself, not you. World views are self views-literally.

  Adyashanti

  Uplifting, Hate, Love You

  147 Copy quote

• This one question-'What do I know for certain?'-is tremendously powerful. When you look deeply into this question, it actually destroys your world. It destroys your whole sense of self, and it's meant to. You come to see that everything you think you know about yourself, everything you think you know about the world, is based on assumptions, beliefs, and opinions-things that you believe because you were taught or told they were true. Until we start to see these false perceptions for what they really are, consciousness will be imprisoned within the dream state.

  Adyashanti

  Inspiring, Dream, Powerful

  Adyashanti (2010). “The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment”, p.16, Sounds True

  39 Copy quote

• Right now you can allow yourself to experience a very simple sense of not knowing - not knowing what or who you are, not knowing what this moment is, not knowing anything. If you give yourself this gift of not knowing and you follow it, a vast spaciousness and mysterious openness dawns within you. Relaxing into not knowing is almost like surrendering into a big, comfortable chair; you just fall into a field of possibility.

  Adyashanti

  Fall, Simple, Knowing

  Adyashanti (2011). “Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering”, p.139, Sounds True

  100 Copy quote

• Grace is something that comes to us when we somehow find ourselves completely available, when we become openhearted and open-minded, and are willing to entertain the possibility that we may not know what we think we know.

  Adyashanti

  Thinking, Grace, May

  Adyashanti (2011). “Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering”, p.10, Sounds True

  20 Copy quote

• Ego is neither positive nor negative. Those are simply concepts that create more boundaries. Ego is just ego, and the disaster of it all is that you, as a spiritual seeker, have been conditioned to think of the ego as bad, as an enemy, as something to be destroyed. This simply strengthens the ego. In fact, such conclusions arise from the ego itself. Pay no attention to them. Don't go to war with yourself; simply inquire into who you are.

  Adyashanti

  Spiritual, War, Thinking

  9 Copy quote

• Thoughts in your head are really no different than the sound of a bird outside. It is just that you decide that they are more or less relevant.

  Adyashanti

  Bird, Sound, Different

  26 Copy quote

• True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.

  Adyashanti

  Desire, True Freedom

  51 Copy quote

• Many Sages have said, "Your world is a dream. You're living in an illusion." They're referring to this world of the mind and the way we believe our thoughts about reality. When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are.

  Adyashanti

  Dream, Believe, Reality

  Adyashanti (2011). “Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering”, p.8, Sounds True

  41 Copy quote

• What the universe will manifest when you are in alignment with it is a lot more interesting than what you try to manifest

  Adyashanti

  Interesting, Trying, Manifest

  66 Copy quote

• All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit
  is to stop seeking something more or better or different,
  and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.

  Adyashanti

  Meditation Practice, Meditation And Yoga, Silence

  72 Copy quote

• True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.

  Adyashanti

  Prayer, Goal, Meditation

  11 Copy quote

Page 1 of 10

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin