The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Fear is very often a part of the spiritual path. When people sit down and meditate it's not at all uncommon for… — 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
The door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of that uncertainty and all wisdom will be… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
How do I integrate spirituality into my everyday life? Throw out the concept of "spiritual life" and "everyday life." There is only… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Many people think that it is the function of a spiritual teaching to provide answers to life's biggest questions, but actually, the… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The unknown, our own true nature, has the capacity to wake itself up when you start to fall in love with letting… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Inherent in the impulse to be free, is insecurity. The impulse to be free comes from outside of the mind, and because… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
In silence a question has great power, because in silence a question will always lead you deeper into your experience. If there… — 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
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
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
Many spiritual people are involved in a radical denial of what is happening. They want to transcend it, get rid of it,… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
No matter what spiritual path you've walked or what teachings you've followed, they must lead you back to no path and no… — 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
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
