The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. When you start to see the light that you really… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Thoughts are just moving through consciousness. They have no power. Nothing has reality until you reach it, grab it, and somehow impregnate… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
To be here, all you have to do is let go of who you think you are. That's all! And then you… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are.… — 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
There's a great space in which this moment takes place. There's a great silence that is listening to the thoughts. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
When we really start to take a look at who we think we are... we start to see that while we may… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
At each moment we are expressing what we know ourselves to be. If we know ourselves very little we will express and… — 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
Thoughts in your head are really no different than the sound of a bird outside. It is just that you decide that… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“When we believe what we think, when we take our thinking to be reality, we will suffer. It’s not obvious until you… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The body is a sensing instrument of consciousness. Without the body and mind, the trees could not see themselves. Usually we think… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is the natural state of consciousness, the innocent state of consciousness, that state which is uncontaminated by the movement of thought,… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“The human being is what links consciousness to its own infinite expressions in form. Through the form of an awake human being,… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with thought and it can be used whenever necessary. But in every moment you can choose to follow… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“Everyone around us sees themselves as essentially different from others, and from life in general. So we move in a world where… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Meditation is a teaching which offers you the possibility of breaking free of this egoic state of consciousness and coming into a… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
As soon as you believe that a label you've put on yourself is true, you've limited something that is literally limitless, you've… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The mind may accept or deny that you are awareness, but either way it can’t really understand. It cannot comprehend. Thought cannot… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
We think there’s someplace other than here to get to—that’s what drives the whole pursuit. Only when the pursuit ceases, is it… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Ego is the movement of the mind toward objects of perception in the form of grasping, and away from objects in the… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“When many of the old saints and sages say, “Your world is a dream. You’re living in an illusion,” they’re referring to… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
We must leave the entire collection of conditioned thought behind and let ourselves be led by the inner thread of silence into… — 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
