Inherent in the impulse to be free, is insecurity. The impulse to be free comes from outside of the mind, and because… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Faith is a withholding of conclusion so that you allow what is to arise. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
No matter what spiritual path you've walked or what teachings you've followed, they must lead you back to no path and no… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
How do I integrate spirituality into my everyday life? Throw out the concept of "spiritual life" and "everyday life." There is only… — 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
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
“Beyond even any teaching, though, the aspect of spiritual life that is the most profound is the element of grace. Grace is… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
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
The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Serving the Truth becomes our life instead of just an isolated event. It takes the abstractness out of spirituality. That's the opportunity… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness. — 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
A spiritual teaching is a finger pointing toward Reality; it is not Reality itself. To be in a true and mature relationship… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are. — 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
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
All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Truth is not over there, wherever over there is. Truth is neither housed in religious rituals nor secret doctrines, nor in a… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
In silence a question has great power, because in silence a question will always lead you deeper into your experience. If there… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing for spiritual seekers to do is to stop struggling, striving, seeking, and searching. Why? Because in the absence… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“Meditative self-inquiry is the art of asking a spiritually powerful question. And a question that is spiritually powerful always points us back… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
We can't have an idea of what life should look like, about how spirit should be manifesting as our very life, because… — 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
