--- title: "9 Seeking Quotes By Adyashanti" description: "9 Seeking quotes by Adyashanti. Plus more from Adyashanti and more Seeking sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e9c/adyashanti-1169_eye_has-it-ever-occurred-to-you-that-you-are_596919.png" --- > [Has it ever occurred to you that you are seeking God with His eyes?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/has-it-ever-occurred-to-you-that-you-are-seeking-god-with-his-eyes/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e9c/adyashanti-1169_eye_has-it-ever-occurred-to-you-that-you-are_596919.png) > [The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/the-truth-is-that-you-already-are-what-you-are-seeking/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d3/adyashanti-1169_seeking_the-truth-is-that-you-already-are-what-y_1328273.png) > [Now don't think that awakening is the end. Awakening is the end of seeking, the end of the seeker, but it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/now-don-t-think-that-awakening-is-the-end-awakening-is-the-end-of/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e8d/adyashanti-1169_awakening_now-don-t-think-that-awakening-is-the-en_2041428.png) > [The truth is that you already are what you are seeking. You are looking for God with his eyes. I suggest you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/the-truth-is-that-you-already-are-what-you-are-seeking-you-are/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/049/adyashanti-1169_asks_the-truth-is-that-you-already-are-what-y_1509607.png) > [As you peel it back, in the heart of nothing, that is love. You are what you are seeking. Life is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/as-you-peel-it-back-in-the-heart-of-nothing-that-is-love-you-are-what/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9eb/adyashanti-1169_awareness_as-you-peel-it-back-in-the-heart-of-noth_230084.png) > [Stop all delays, all seeking and all striving. Put down your concepts, ideas and beliefs. For one instant be still and directly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/stop-all-delays-all-seeking-and-all-striving-put-down-your-concepts/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b3/adyashanti-1169_awakening_stop-all-delays-all-seeking-and-all-stri_1363340.png) > [Inherent in the impulse to be free, is insecurity. The impulse to be free comes from outside of the mind, and because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/inherent-in-the-impulse-to-be-free-is-insecurity-the-impulse-to-be/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1da/adyashanti-1169_feeling-insecure_inherent-in-the-impulse-to-be-free-is-in_61150.png) > [The most difficult thing for spiritual seekers to do is to stop struggling, striving, seeking, and searching. Why? Because in the absence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/the-most-difficult-thing-for-spiritual-seekers-to-do-is-to-stop/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/789/adyashanti-1169_absence_the-most-difficult-thing-for-spiritual-s_2946774.png) > [Human beings have a drive for security and safety, which is often what fuels the spiritual search. This very drive for security…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/human-beings-have-a-drive-for-security-and-safety-which-is-often-what/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/84d/adyashanti-1169_absolutes_human-beings-have-a-drive-for-security-a_2029027.png) ## Other authors on Seeking ## More by Adyashanti > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/the-world-s-problems-are-by-and-large-human-problems-the-unavoidable/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/this-moment-in-which-you-experience-stillness-is-every-moment-don-t/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) > [When you rest deeply in the Unknown without trying to escape, your experience becomes very vast. As the experience of the Unknown deepens, your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/when-you-rest-deeply-in-the-unknown-without-trying-to-escape-your/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) > [Embrace suffering, and you transform your relationship with what causes you to suffer, as well as your relationship with suffering itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/embrace-suffering-and-you-transform-your-relationship-with-what/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) > [What is really important you can't understand with your mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/what-is-really-important-you-can-t-understand-with-your-mind/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) > [What would happen if you were to allow everything to be exactly as it is? If you gave up the need for control, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/what-would-happen-if-you-were-to-allow-everything-to-be-exactly-as-it/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) > [Inherent in the impulse to be free, is insecurity. The impulse to be free comes from outside of the mind, and because of this,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/inherent-in-the-impulse-to-be-free-is-insecurity-the-impulse-to-be/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/you-can-t-lose-what-you-serve-that-s-the-secret-what-you-serve-you/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) > [It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/it-is-not-the-pursuit-of-greater-and-greater-states-of-happiness-and/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) > [Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true. It is the way Life suggests that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/suffering-is-how-life-tells-you-that-you-are-resisting-or/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) > [Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it's about letting go of control.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/real-meditation-is-not-about-mastering-a-technique-it-s-about-letting/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) > [When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/when-emptiness-is-still-that-is-eternity-when-it-moves-that-is-love/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) > [You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/you-are-an-incredible-mystery-that-you-will-never-figure-out-to-be/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) > [Life sustains itself. Let go of the ego and life takes care of itself through you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/life-sustains-itself-let-go-of-the-ego-and-life-takes-care-of-itself/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/one-doesn-t-stay-in-a-state-of-nirvana-by-hiding-from-difficulties/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/seeking/adyashanti/#itemlist", "name": "9 Seeking Quotes By Adyashanti", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Has it ever occurred to you that you are seeking God with His eyes?", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Adyashanti" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/has-it-ever-occurred-to-you-that-you-are-seeking-god-with-his-eyes/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e9c/adyashanti-1169_eye_has-it-ever-occurred-to-you-that-you-are_596919.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e9c/adyashanti-1169_eye_has-it-ever-occurred-to-you-that-you-are_596919.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e9c/adyashanti-1169_eye_has-it-ever-occurred-to-you-that-you-are_596919.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Has it ever occurred to you that you are seeking God with His eyes?” — Adyashanti", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Adyashanti" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/the-truth-is-that-you-already-are-what-you-are-seeking/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d3/adyashanti-1169_seeking_the-truth-is-that-you-already-are-what-y_1328273.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d3/adyashanti-1169_seeking_the-truth-is-that-you-already-are-what-y_1328273.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d3/adyashanti-1169_seeking_the-truth-is-that-you-already-are-what-y_1328273.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.” — Adyashanti", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Now don't think that awakening is the end. 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