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 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
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
The door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of that uncertainty and all wisdom will be… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness. — 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
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
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
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
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 unknown, our own true nature, has the capacity to wake itself up when you start to fall in love with letting… — 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 mind wants to land, to fixate, to hold a concept, but the only way you can be really free is by not fixating. That's part of true maturity, and it's one of the hardest things for spiritual people who have had true and powerful revelations to go through - to accept the degree of surrender needed to literally let… — Adyashanti Copy Share
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
No matter what spiritual path you've walked or what teachings you've followed, they must lead you back to no path and no teaching. A true teaching is like a blazing fire that consumes itself. The teaching must not only consume you, but consume itself as well. All must be burned to ash, and then the ash must be burned. Then,… — Adyashanti Copy Share
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
Human beings have a drive for security and safety, which is often what fuels the spiritual search. This very drive for security… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Ego is neither positive nor negative. Those are simply concepts that create more boundaries. Ego is just ego, and the disaster of… — 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
