--- title: "22 Way Quotes By Adyashanti" description: "22 Way quotes by Adyashanti. Plus more from Adyashanti and more Way sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/684/adyashanti-1169_available_love-causes-us-to-be-deeply-connected-in_2682700.png" --- > [Love causes us to be deeply connected in an unspoken way. It happens when we're really available, really open.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/love-causes-us-to-be-deeply-connected-in-an-unspoken-way-it-happens/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/684/adyashanti-1169_available_love-causes-us-to-be-deeply-connected-in_2682700.png) > [The Way of Liberation is not a belief system; it is something to be put into practice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/the-way-of-liberation-is-not-a-belief-system-it-is-something-to-be/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb4/adyashanti-1169_belief_the-way-of-liberation-is-not-a-belief-sy_1904136.png) > [Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true. It is the way Life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/suffering-is-how-life-tells-you-that-you-are-resisting-or/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6d3/adyashanti-1169_harmony_suffering-is-how-life-tells-you-that-you_97061.png) > [All delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we’re talking to ourselves and then believing what we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/all-delusions-begin-in-the-mind-all-delusions-are-based-on-various/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/22b/adyashanti-1169_believe_all-delusions-begin-in-the-mind-all-delu_1372336.png) > [Gratitude is the appreciation of what is, of life, of existence, of anybody and anything, for just the way it is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/gratitude-is-the-appreciation-of-what-is-of-life-of-existence-of/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be4/adyashanti-1169_appreciation_gratitude-is-the-appreciation-of-what-is_1968530.png) > [The mind may accept or deny that you are awareness, but either way it can’t really understand. It cannot comprehend. Thought cannot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/the-mind-may-accept-or-deny-that-you-are-awareness-but-either-way-it/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b91/adyashanti-1169_accepting_the-mind-may-accept-or-deny-that-you-are_2278336.png) > [As soon as the mind pulls out an agenda and decides what needs to change, that's unreality. Life doesn't need to decide…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/as-soon-as-the-mind-pulls-out-an-agenda-and-decides-what-needs-to/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f94/adyashanti-1169_agendas_as-soon-as-the-mind-pulls-out-an-agenda_1419206.png) > [Reality is always true to itself. When you're in harmony with it, you experience bliss. As soon as you are not in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/reality-is-always-true-to-itself-when-you-re-in-harmony-with-it-you/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/901/adyashanti-1169_bliss_reality-is-always-true-to-itself-when-yo_2907497.jpg) > [When you begin to become conscious, more aware, when your eyes begin to open, the first thing you see is how deluded…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/when-you-begin-to-become-conscious-more-aware-when-your-eyes-begin-to/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/177/adyashanti-1169_conscious_when-you-begin-to-become-conscious-more_3136461.png) > [Our own intuition of what we're called to is reality speaking to us individually and perfectly. We have to listen to how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/our-own-intuition-of-what-we-re-called-to-is-reality-speaking-to-us/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/397/adyashanti-1169_ifs_our-own-intuition-of-what-we-re-called-t_931059.png) > [Ego is the movement of the mind toward objects of perception in the form of grasping, and away from objects in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/ego-is-the-movement-of-the-mind-toward-objects-of-perception-in-the/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f5/adyashanti-1169_aversion_ego-is-the-movement-of-the-mind-toward-o_2389979.jpg) > [Many Sages have said, "Your world is a dream. You're living in an illusion." They're referring to this world of the mind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/many-sages-have-said-your-world-is-a-dream-you-re-living-in-an/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d14/adyashanti-1169_believe_many-sages-have-said-your-world-is-a-dre_2993826.jpg) > [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) > [When you get out of the driver's seat, you find that life can drive itself, that actually life has always been driving…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/when-you-get-out-of-the-driver-s-seat-you-find-that-life-can-drive/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd2/adyashanti-1169_drivers_when-you-get-out-of-the-driver-s-seat-yo_662736.png) > [The Buddha's insight into the middle way is not simply about a balance between extremes. This conventional understanding misses the deeper revelation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/the-buddha-s-insight-into-the-middle-way-is-not-simply-about-a/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3f/adyashanti-1169_balance_the-buddha-s-insight-into-the-middle-way_1336555.jpg) > [Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control. This is meditation. Anything else is actually a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/real-meditation-is-not-about-mastering-a-technique-it-s-about-letting-2/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/00c/adyashanti-1169_concentration_real-meditation-is-not-about-mastering-a_1844469.png) > [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) > [Can you imagine if you really let it in that you are not a problem to be solved in any way? Imagine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/can-you-imagine-if-you-really-let-it-in-that-you-are-not-a-problem-to/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f0f/adyashanti-1169_compassion_can-you-imagine-if-you-really-let-it-in_1649168.jpg) > [Deep down we all suspect that something is very wrong with the way we perceive life but we try very, very hard…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/deep-down-we-all-suspect-that-something-is-very-wrong-with-the-way-we/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/449/adyashanti-1169_blind_deep-down-we-all-suspect-that-something_427420.png) > [When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/when-we-see-the-world-through-our-thoughts-we-stop-experiencing-life/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ff/adyashanti-1169_believe_when-we-see-the-world-through-our-though_615718.png) > [The mind wants to land, to fixate, to hold a concept, but the only way you can be really free is by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/the-mind-wants-to-land-to-fixate-to-hold-a-concept-but-the-only-way/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d64/adyashanti-1169_accepting_the-mind-wants-to-land-to-fixate-to-hold_698979.jpg) > [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) ## Other authors on Way ## 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/way/adyashanti/#itemlist", "name": "22 Way Quotes By Adyashanti", "numberOfItems": 22, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Love causes us to be deeply connected in an unspoken way. 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