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
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
Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
If you think that people should be nice to one another, then by all means be nice. But when you project that… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The proof of the depth and embodiment of your realization will be seen in your love relationship. That's where the proof is… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Retreat is a response to the call of the heart-that call which beckons us toward reality, to the truth of our being,… — 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
Most people don't get out of childhood, or adolescence, without being wounded for telling the truth. Someone says 'you can't say that'… — 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
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
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 boundaries begin to dissolve. You realize, not just intellectually but on a deep level, that you have no idea who or what you are. A few minutes ago, you knew who you were-you had a history… — 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 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
