Adyashanti Quotes
The biggest embrace of love you'll ever make is to embrace yourself completely. Then you'll realize you've just embraced the whole universe, and everything and everybody in it.
The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.
What the universe will manifest when you are in alignment with it is a lot more interesting than what you try to manifest
Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.
The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but it does change.
The goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.
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 giving it away as fast as you receive it.
If we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn't that what silence is? It's a listening, a deep wordless listening.
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 hold onto, you can't hold onto. It's always slipping out of your fingers.
At first it seems as if begoing follows becoming. But look even closer and you will see that there are only flashes of lightning illuminating the empty sky.
Be a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don't expect it to be easy or even noticed.
An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.
Now don't think that awakening is the end. Awakening is the end of seeking, the end of the seeker, but it is the beginning of a life lived from your true nature.
You are not your story. They are not your story about them. The world is not your story about the world.
When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable. It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we are not relating from the truth. It's a beautiful pointer. It never fails.
Gratitude is the appreciation of what is, of life, of existence, of anybody and anything, for just the way it is.
As soon as you believe that a label you've put on yourself is true, you've limited something that is literally limitless, you've limited who you are into nothing but a thought.
If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.
The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being.
When someone says, 'I love you,' he is telling you about himself, not you. When someone says, 'I hate you,' she is telling you about herself, not you. World views are self views-literally.
Actually, all paths lead away from the truth...how's that? All paths. There's no such thing as a path to the truth. The truth's already here, where are you going?
Thoughts in your head are really no different than the sound of a bird outside. It is just that you decide that they are more or less relevant.
You will only lose when you resist reality; you will only struggle when you disagree with what is.
Doubt is always accompanied by a pervasive cynicism that unconsciously puts a negative spin on whatever it touches.
Have you noticed, with whatever quality of love you have experienced, that when true love arises, it opens up both your mind and emotions? It's an openness to whatever is happening.
This awake silence is available to anyone in this moment. All you have to do is stop using your mind to look for it. It doesn't know where to find it.
Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.
The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.
Let go of all ideas and images in your mind, they come and go and aren’t even generated by you. So why pay so much attention to your imagination when reality is for the realizing right now?
