Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Awakening to the truth is a deep realization of what you are as an experience. What is it that is listening? What… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
You must want to know the truth more than you want to feel secure in order to fully awaken to the fact… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Now don't think that awakening is the end. Awakening is the end of seeking, the end of the seeker, but it is… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“Be an open space for whatever arises. Notice that you are the space in which everything arises. When everything is allowed to… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Stop all delays, all seeking and all striving. Put down your concepts, ideas and beliefs. For one instant be still and directly… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
It is good to remember that the goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is… — 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
“That which comes and goes is not real; quit chasing it. It doesn't matter. What haven't you lost? That is what‘s important.… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“Everything depends upon your readiness and willingness to let go into the Unknown and live from that mysterious and precious condition. The… — 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
“There is a freedom that can be discovered in relationship, whether it be with spiritual community or with another individual, where something… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“As long as you perceive that anyone is holding you back, you have not taken full responsibility for your own liberation. Liberation… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“You come into the natural state by letting go of control by letting go of effort and resting in a state of… — 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 correct attitude is one where you have no more time to waste. This means that everything is oriented toward the now.… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“This (liberation) isn't something I can help you with. I can tell you what you need to do, but you have to… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Embrace suffering, and you transform your relationship with what causes you to suffer, as well as your relationship with suffering itself. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it's about letting go of control. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
