Adyashanti

This moment in which you experience stillness is every moment. Don't let the mind seduce you into the past or future. Stay…

— Adyashanti

The door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of that uncertainty and all wisdom will be…

— Adyashanti

How do I integrate spirituality into my everyday life? Throw out the concept of "spiritual life" and "everyday life." There is only…

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As I often tell my students, the person you’ll have the hardest time opening to and truly loving without reserve is yourself.…

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As soon as the mind pulls out an agenda and decides what needs to change, that's unreality. Life doesn't need to decide…

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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,…

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When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable. It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we…

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Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true. It is the way Life…

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Deep down we all suspect that something is very wrong with the way we perceive life but we try very, very hard…

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The question of being is everything. Nothing could be more important or consequential-n othing where the stakes run so high. To remain…

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Meditation is not something restricted to times of formal seated meditation; it is most fundamentally an attitude of being-a resting in and…

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“The correct attitude is one where you have no more time to waste. This means that everything is oriented toward the now.…

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Meditation is a teaching which offers you the possibility of breaking free of this egoic state of consciousness and coming into a…

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At a certain point we need to grow up; we need to look inside ourselves for our inner guidance. There are things…

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If you tell yourself a sad story, the body reacts to that. And if you tell yourself a self-aggrandizing story, the body…

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All you have to do is say "yes." Don't make some big project out of it. Don't make some big deal out…

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Self-inquiry is a spiritually induced form of wintertime. It's not about looking for a right answer so much as stripping away and…

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All delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we’re talking to ourselves and then believing what we…

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When someone says, 'I love you,' he is telling you about himself, not you. When someone says, 'I hate you,' she is…

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The aim of my teaching is enlightenment, awakening from the dream state of separateness into the reality of the One. In short,…

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True sincerity reveals a powerful form of clarity and discernment that is necessary in order to perceive yourself honestly without flinching or…

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When the eternal and the human meet, that's where love is born -- not through escaping our humanity or trying to disappear…

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Reality is always true to itself. When you're in harmony with it, you experience bliss. As soon as you are not in…

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The truth is you can't try to let go. Trying is the opposite of letting go. To let go is to relinquish…

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When you rest deeply in the Unknown without trying to escape, your experience becomes very vast. As the experience of the Unknown…

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When we really start to take a look at who we think we are... we start to see that while we may…

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When you get out of the driver's seat, you find that life can drive itself, that actually life has always been driving…

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“Just as your lungs breathe in and then breathe out, it’s necessary for things to fall away so that life can breathe…

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Retreat is a response to the call of the heart-that call which beckons us toward reality, to the truth of our being,…

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The Buddha's insight into the middle way is not simply about a balance between extremes. This conventional understanding misses the deeper revelation…

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“It’s important that meditation is not seen as something that only happens when you are seated in a quiet place. Otherwise spirituality…

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Ego is neither positive nor negative. Those are simply concepts that create more boundaries. Ego is just ego, and the disaster of…

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“This adult world has an insane quality to it. Everybody’s going around pretending like they really know things, pretending like they know…

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There is nothing wrong with thought and it can be used whenever necessary. But in every moment you can choose to follow…

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The proof of the depth and embodiment of your realization will be seen in your love relationship. That's where the proof is…

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If you filter my words through any tradition or '-ism', you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is…

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Whatever you want, be it. If you want connection, it's because you are connection. Be what you want, and then it happens…

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“The human being is what links consciousness to its own infinite expressions in form. Through the form of an awake human being,…

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As you peel it back, in the heart of nothing, that is love. You are what you are seeking. Life is a…

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