When you begin to become conscious, more aware, when your eyes begin to open, the first thing you see is how deluded you are and how much you're holding onto that which makes you suffer. This is, in many ways,… — 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
