--- title: "6 True nature Quotes By Adyashanti" description: "6 True nature quotes by Adyashanti. Plus more from Adyashanti and more True nature sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/432/adyashanti-1169_expressing_at-each-moment-we-are-expressing-what-we_1001770.png" --- > [At each moment we are expressing what we know ourselves to be. If we know ourselves very little we will express and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/at-each-moment-we-are-expressing-what-we-know-ourselves-to-be-if-we/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/432/adyashanti-1169_expressing_at-each-moment-we-are-expressing-what-we_1001770.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 unknown, our own true nature, has the capacity to wake itself up when you start to fall in love with letting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/the-unknown-our-own-true-nature-has-the-capacity-to-wake-itself-up/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c9/adyashanti-1169_belief_the-unknown-our-own-true-nature-has-the_2280544.jpg) > [The joke of it all is that you are looking from your true nature right now without knowing it. If you would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/the-joke-of-it-all-is-that-you-are-looking-from-your-true-nature/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a1/adyashanti-1169_buddhism_the-joke-of-it-all-is-that-you-are-looki_2552624.png) > [What am I, really? The beautiful thing...is nobody can tell us what we are. Nobody can really tell us. Not in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/what-am-i-really-the-beautiful-thing-is-nobody-can-tell-us-what-we/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/258/adyashanti-1169_beautiful_what-am-i-really-the-beautiful-thing-is_2810183.png) > [The willingness to not bypass illusion is very important. We come to nirvana by way of samsara. We come to see the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/the-willingness-to-not-bypass-illusion-is-very-important-we-come-to/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ade/adyashanti-1169_avoiding_the-willingness-to-not-bypass-illusion-i_2953379.jpg) ## Other authors on True nature - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-eckhart-tolle-31242.jpg) Eckhart Tolle 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/true-nature/eckhart-tolle/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-swami-vivekananda-88348.jpg) Swami Vivekananda 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/true-nature/swami-vivekananda/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-sogyal-rinpoche-86038.jpg) Sogyal Rinpoche 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/true-nature/sogyal-rinpoche/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-ramana-maharshi-77157.jpg) Ramana Maharshi 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/true-nature/ramana-maharshi/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-b-b-king-1507543-16033.jpg) Joseph P. Kauffman 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/true-nature/joseph-p-kauffman/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b012/author-jack-kornfield-45453.jpg) Jack Kornfield 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/true-nature/jack-kornfield/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-ilchi-lee-43191.jpg) Ilchi Lee 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/true-nature/ilchi-lee/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-shunryu-suzuki-85213.jpg) Shunryu Suzuki 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/true-nature/shunryu-suzuki/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-paramahansa-yogananda-73280.jpg) Paramahansa Yogananda 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/true-nature/paramahansa-yogananda/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-julia-cameron-54149.jpg) Julia Cameron 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/true-nature/julia-cameron/) ## 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/true-nature/adyashanti/#itemlist", "name": "6 True nature Quotes By Adyashanti", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "At each moment we are expressing what we know ourselves to be. If we know ourselves very little we will express and manifest that unconsciousness of our true nature. If we know who and what we are very thoroughly, we will express and manifest that in what we do. 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