Nothing appears to be something. The human experience is a senseory organ for the divine self. Through these eyes, the divine gets… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
All we really want in the end is to be connected once again with the Truth of our being, to realize what… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
When you let go of the egoic self what you're getting in exchange is the whole universe. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
When we really start to take a look at who we think we are, we become very grace prone. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Ego is the movement of the mind toward objects of perception in the form of grasping, and away from objects in the… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
We think there’s someplace other than here to get to—that’s what drives the whole pursuit. Only when the pursuit ceases, is it… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
We realize--often quite suddenly--that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Self-inquiry is a spiritually induced form of wintertime. It's not about looking for a right answer so much as stripping away and… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
When someone says, 'I love you,' he is telling you about himself, not you. When someone says, 'I hate you,' she is… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
What am I, really? The beautiful thing...is nobody can tell us what we are. Nobody can really tell us. Not in a… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Most human beings spend their lives battling with opposing inner forces: what they think they should do versus what they are doing;… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The mind wants to land, to fixate, to hold a concept, but the only way you can be really free is by… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
This one question-'What do I know for certain?'-is tremendously powerful. When you look deeply into this question, it actually destroys your world.… — 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
The joke of it all is that you are looking from your true nature right now without knowing it. If you would… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Can you imagine if you really let it in that you are not a problem to be solved in any way? Imagine… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
If you tell yourself a sad story, the body reacts to that. And if you tell yourself a self-aggrandizing story, the body… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Ego is neither positive nor negative. Those are simply concepts that create more boundaries. Ego is just ego, and the disaster of… — 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
