When we really start to take a look at who we think we are, we become very grace prone. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
When someone tells you, 'I love you,' and then you feel, 'Oh, I must be worthy after all,' that's an illusion. That's… — 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 really start to take a look at who we think we are... we start to see that while we may… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
It is easy to imagine that the Buddha, the awakened one, is something or somewhere other than here or that awakening to… — 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
Grace is something that comes to us when we somehow find ourselves completely available, when we become openhearted and open-minded, and are… — 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
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
Now don't think that awakening is the end. Awakening is the end of seeking, the end of the seeker, but it is… — 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
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
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
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
Whenever you aren’t manipulating your experience, you’re meditating. As soon as you meditate because you think you should, you’re controlling your experience… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The joke of it all is that you are looking from your true nature right now without knowing it. If you would… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
You think that enlightenment is something other than what is happening right now. This is your primary mistake. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
This one question-'What do I know for certain?'-is tremendously powerful. When you look deeply into this question, it actually destroys your world.… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Most human beings spend their lives battling with opposing inner forces: what they think they should do versus what they are doing;… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
You can't look at what's looking. You can't think about that which is prior to thought. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being.. — 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
