If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
All we really want in the end is to be connected once again with the Truth of our being, to realize what… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
You must want to know the truth more than you want to feel secure in order to fully awaken to the fact… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The silence inside of you is the sound of your knowledge collapsing. Remember, it is you who said, 'I want to be… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Whatever you want, be it. If you want connection, it's because you are connection. Be what you want, and then it happens… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
One Zen master said, The whole universe is my true personality. This is a very wonderful saying... If you want to see… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
At a certain point we need to grow up; we need to look inside ourselves for our inner guidance. There are things… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
In order to be truly free, you must desire to know the truth more than you want to feel good. Because, if… — 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
When you stand in your own authority, based in your own direct experience, you meet that ultimate mystery that you are. Even… — 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
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
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