You will only lose when you resist reality; you will only struggle when you disagree with what is. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Let go of all ideas and images in your mind, they come and go and aren’t even generated by you. So why… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Thoughts are just moving through consciousness. They have no power. Nothing has reality until you reach it, grab it, and somehow impregnate… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The aim of my teaching is enlightenment, awakening from the dream state of separateness into the reality of the One. In short,… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The realization of Truth and Reality can never be created by the mind ... it always comes as a gift of grace.… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Trying to maintain a pleasant state and avoid an unpleasant state is actually the cause of sorrow. When you stop resisting, you… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
One Zen master said, The whole universe is my true personality. This is a very wonderful saying... If you want to see… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Many Sages have said, "Your world is a dream. You're living in an illusion." They're referring to this world of the mind… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Spirituality does not require that you work hard toward achieving a result in the future as much as it requires you to… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Our own intuition of what we're called to is reality speaking to us individually and perfectly. We have to listen to how… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
If you think that people should be nice to one another, then by all means be nice. But when you project that… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
It is easy to imagine that the Buddha, the awakened one, is something or somewhere other than here or that awakening to… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
We can't have an idea of what life should look like, about how spirit should be manifesting as our very life, because… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
When someone tells you, 'I love you,' and then you feel, 'Oh, I must be worthy after all,' that's an illusion. That's… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Retreat is a response to the call of the heart-that call which beckons us toward reality, to the truth of our being,… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
A spiritual teaching is a finger pointing toward Reality; it is not Reality itself. To be in a true and mature relationship… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Your life, all of your life, is your path to awakening. By resisting or not dealing with its challenges, you stay asleep… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The question of being is everything. Nothing could be more important or consequential-n othing where the stakes run so high. To remain… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Reality is always true to itself. When you're in harmony with it, you experience bliss. As soon as you are not in… — 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
