--- title: "7 Awake Quotes By Adyashanti" description: "7 Awake quotes by Adyashanti. Plus more from Adyashanti and more Awake sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce8/adyashanti-1169_arguing_there-is-a-very-simple-secret-to-being-h_564941.jpg" --- > [There is a very Simple Secret to being happy. Just let go of your 'demand' on this moment. Any time you have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/there-is-a-very-simple-secret-to-being-happy-just-let-go-of-your/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce8/adyashanti-1169_arguing_there-is-a-very-simple-secret-to-being-h_564941.jpg) > [To be here, all you have to do is let go of who you think you are. That's all! And then you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/to-be-here-all-you-have-to-do-is-let-go-of-who-you-think-you-are-that/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/592/adyashanti-1169_awake_to-be-here-all-you-have-to-do-is-let-go_592127.png) > [This awake silence is available to anyone in this moment. All you have to do is stop using your mind to look…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/this-awake-silence-is-available-to-anyone-in-this-moment-all-you-have/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f51/adyashanti-1169_available_this-awake-silence-is-available-to-anyon_1175122.png) > [If you tell yourself a sad story, the body reacts to that. And if you tell yourself a self-aggrandizing story, the body…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/if-you-tell-yourself-a-sad-story-the-body-reacts-to-that-and-if-you/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/649/adyashanti-1169_awake_if-you-tell-yourself-a-sad-story-the-bod_1803394.png) > [All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/all-that-is-necessary-to-awaken-to-yourself-as-the-radiant-emptiness/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e68/adyashanti-1169_attention_all-that-is-necessary-to-awaken-to-yours_2153885.png) > [My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/my-speaking-is-meant-to-shake-you-awake-not-to-tell-you-how-to-dream/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f9d/adyashanti-1169_awake_my-speaking-is-meant-to-shake-you-awake_2658467.png) > [If you filter my words through any tradition or '-ism', you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/if-you-filter-my-words-through-any-tradition-or-ism-you-will-miss/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7af/adyashanti-1169_alive_if-you-filter-my-words-through-any-tradi_2986516.jpg) ## Other authors on Awake ## More by Adyashanti > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/the-world-s-problems-are-by-and-large-human-problems-the-unavoidable/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/this-moment-in-which-you-experience-stillness-is-every-moment-don-t/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) > [When you rest deeply in the Unknown without trying to escape, your experience becomes very vast. As the experience of the Unknown deepens, your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/when-you-rest-deeply-in-the-unknown-without-trying-to-escape-your/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) > [Embrace suffering, and you transform your relationship with what causes you to suffer, as well as your relationship with suffering itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/embrace-suffering-and-you-transform-your-relationship-with-what/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) > [What is really important you can't understand with your mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/what-is-really-important-you-can-t-understand-with-your-mind/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) > [What would happen if you were to allow everything to be exactly as it is? If you gave up the need for control, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/what-would-happen-if-you-were-to-allow-everything-to-be-exactly-as-it/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) > [Inherent in the impulse to be free, is insecurity. The impulse to be free comes from outside of the mind, and because of this,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/inherent-in-the-impulse-to-be-free-is-insecurity-the-impulse-to-be/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/you-can-t-lose-what-you-serve-that-s-the-secret-what-you-serve-you/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) > [It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/it-is-not-the-pursuit-of-greater-and-greater-states-of-happiness-and/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) > [Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true. It is the way Life suggests that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/suffering-is-how-life-tells-you-that-you-are-resisting-or/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) > [Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it's about letting go of control.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/real-meditation-is-not-about-mastering-a-technique-it-s-about-letting/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) > [When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/when-emptiness-is-still-that-is-eternity-when-it-moves-that-is-love/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) > [You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/you-are-an-incredible-mystery-that-you-will-never-figure-out-to-be/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) > [Life sustains itself. Let go of the ego and life takes care of itself through you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/life-sustains-itself-let-go-of-the-ego-and-life-takes-care-of-itself/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/one-doesn-t-stay-in-a-state-of-nirvana-by-hiding-from-difficulties/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/awake/adyashanti/#itemlist", "name": "7 Awake Quotes By Adyashanti", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There is a very Simple Secret to being happy. Just let go of your 'demand' on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering. You're Arguing with 'What Is' - Your demands keep you chained to the 'dream-state' of the conditioned mind. 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