Adyashanti Quotes - Page 10

To find out that you are empty of emptiness is to die into an aware mystery, which is the source of all existence.

Take one step backward into the unknown.

Nothing appears to be something. The human experience is a senseory organ for the divine self. Through these eyes, the divine gets to see itself in form.

My experience of fundamental Truth is that it’s a place of extraordinary intelligence. It’s a place from which great intelligence arises. I call it a place of absolute infinite potential.

The aim of my teaching is enlightenment, awakening from the dream state of separateness into the reality of the One. In short, my teaching is focused on realizing what you are.

The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.

Enlightenment is a destructive process.

We must become expressions of, not consumers of, realization.

Completion comes when we not just wake up from all form, from all identification, but when love causes us to re-embrace it all.

Fear is very often a part of the spiritual path. When people sit down and meditate it's not at all uncommon for fear to arise at some point.

In True Meditation, we're in the body as a means to transcend it. It is paradoxical that the greatest doorway to the transcendence of form is through form itself.

What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.

Our yearning for truth actually comes from truth.

If you have any image of what the Truth is, slay it immediately because that's not it.

Inherent in the impulse to be free, is insecurity. The impulse to be free comes from outside of the mind, and because of this, it makes the mind feel very insecure. Most spiritual seekers move away from this insecurity by seeking and striving for a distant spiritual goal. That's how they avoid feeling insecure.

Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.

Retreat is a response to the call of the heart-that call which beckons us toward reality, to the truth of our being, to that which is truly sane, really real and liberating ... When a group of people come together as a response to that kind of inward call, it creates a very powerful environment, where truth is held in the highest esteem and the reality of our being responds to that deepest intention.

As soon as the mind pulls out an agenda and decides what needs to change, that's unreality. Life doesn't need to decide who's right and who's wrong. Life doesn't need to know the "right" way to go because it's going there anyway.

The beautiful thing about the truth of being is that it's so unimaginably immediate.

Serving the Truth becomes our life instead of just an isolated event. It takes the abstractness out of spirituality. That's the opportunity of real spirituality: to be in service to the silence of the heart.