Gratitude is the appreciation of what is, of life, of existence, of anybody and anything, for just the way it is. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The mind may accept or deny that you are awareness, but either way it can’t really understand. It cannot comprehend. Thought cannot… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The Way of Liberation is not a belief system; it is something to be put into practice. — 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… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
All delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we’re talking to ourselves and then believing what we… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Ego is the movement of the mind toward objects of perception in the form of grasping, and away from objects in the… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Our own intuition of what we're called to is reality speaking to us individually and perfectly. We have to listen to how… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
As soon as the mind pulls out an agenda and decides what needs to change, that's unreality. Life doesn't need to decide… — 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
When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are.… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Can you imagine if you really let it in that you are not a problem to be solved in any way? Imagine… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Deep down we all suspect that something is very wrong with the way we perceive life but we try very, very hard… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The Buddha's insight into the middle way is not simply about a balance between extremes. This conventional understanding misses the deeper revelation… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
When you get out of the driver's seat, you find that life can drive itself, that actually life has always been driving… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control. This is meditation. Anything else is actually a… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Love causes us to be deeply connected in an unspoken way. It happens when we're really available, really open. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
What am I, really? The beautiful thing...is nobody can tell us what we are. Nobody can really tell us. Not in a… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The willingness to not bypass illusion is very important. We come to nirvana by way of samsara. We come to see the… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Many Sages have said, "Your world is a dream. You're living in an illusion." They're referring to this world of the mind… — 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
When you begin to become conscious, more aware, when your eyes begin to open, the first thing you see is how deluded… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Reality is always true to itself. When you're in harmony with it, you experience bliss. As soon as you are not in… — 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
