What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Question your thoughts. Question your stories. Question your assumptions. Question your opinions. Question your conclusions. Question them all into utter emptiness, stillness… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“Everyone around us sees themselves as essentially different from others, and from life in general. So we move in a world where… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Human beings have a drive for security and safety, which is often what fuels the spiritual search. This very drive for security… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing for spiritual seekers to do is to stop struggling, striving, seeking, and searching. Why? Because in the absence… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Our illusions-the beliefs we hold on to-are the very doorways to our freedom. We simply have to enter through them without grasping… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“As long as you perceive that anyone is holding you back, you have not taken full responsibility for your own liberation. Liberation… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
In Liberation, you stand alone. You stand alone because you need no supports of any kind. You need no supports because you… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“There is a freedom that can be discovered in relationship, whether it be with spiritual community or with another individual, where something… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“That which comes and goes is not real; quit chasing it. It doesn't matter. What haven't you lost? That is what‘s important.… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment depends to a large extent on believing that you are born for Freedom in this lifetime, and that it is available… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The important thing is allowing the whole world to wake up. Part of allowing the whole world to wake up is recognizing… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
All you have to do is say "yes." Don't make some big project out of it. Don't make some big deal out… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“This (liberation) isn't something I can help you with. I can tell you what you need to do, but you have to… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
In order to be truly free, you must desire to know the truth more than you want to feel good. Because, if… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The world's problems are, by and large, human problems-the unavoidable consequence of egoic sleepwalking. If we care to look, all the signs are present… — Adyashanti Copy Share
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… — Adyashanti Copy Share
When you rest deeply in the Unknown without trying to escape, your experience becomes very vast. As the experience of the Unknown deepens, your… — Adyashanti Copy Share
Embrace suffering, and you transform your relationship with what causes you to suffer, as well as your relationship with suffering itself. — Adyashanti Copy Share
What would happen if you were to allow everything to be exactly as it is? If you gave up the need for control, and… — Adyashanti Copy Share
Inherent in the impulse to be free, is insecurity. The impulse to be free comes from outside of the mind, and because of this,… — Adyashanti Copy Share
You can't lose what you serve. That's the secret. What you serve, you can't lose. What you don't serve and what you try to… — Adyashanti Copy Share
It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and… — Adyashanti Copy Share
Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true. It is the way Life suggests that… — Adyashanti Copy Share
Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it's about letting go of control. — Adyashanti Copy Share
You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy. — Adyashanti Copy Share
Life sustains itself. Let go of the ego and life takes care of itself through you. — Adyashanti Copy Share
One doesn't stay in a state of nirvana by hiding from difficulties. You stay in nirvana by lavishing nirvana on everyone you meet, by… — Adyashanti Copy Share
