Adyashanti Quotes

1. “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.”

— Adyashanti

2. “Your life, all of your life, is your path to awakening. By resisting or not dealing with its challenges, you stay asleep to Reality. Pay attention to what life is trying to reveal to you. Say yes to its fierce, ruthless, and loving grace.”

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3. “Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control.”

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4. “The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.”

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5. “Embrace suffering, and you transform your relationship with what causes you to suffer, as well as your relationship with suffering itself.”

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6. “The truth is you can’t try to let go. Trying is the opposite of letting go. To let go is to relinquish trying. To let go is much more like to let be.”

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7. “What the universe will manifest when you are in alignment with it is a lot more interesting than what you try to manifest.”

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8. “The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.”

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9. “Stop all doing and be still. Let the fire of stillness burn everything and reveal That which is Openness.”

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10. “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.”

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11. “The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears.”

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12. “When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.”

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13. “A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.”

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14. “A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom.”

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15. “Take the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you.”

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16. “When you let go of the egoic self what you’re getting in exchange is the whole universe.”

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17. “An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.”

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18. “The willingness to not bypass illusion is very important. We come to nirvana by way of samsara. We come to see the true nature of things by seeing through the illusory nature of things. We don’t come to nirvana by avoiding samsara. We don’t come to clarity by avoiding confusion.”

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19. “Gratitude is the appreciation of what is, of life, of existence, of anybody and anything, for just the way it is.”

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20. “Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true. It is the way Life suggests that you are not in harmony with what is.”

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21. “You must choose between your attachments and happiness.”

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22. “There is, quite literally, nothing to understand.”

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23. “The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.”

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24. “True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.”

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25. “Awakening to the truth is a deep realization of what you are as an experience. What is it that is listening? What is it that is feeling? Feel it. Sense it. Welcome it.”

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26. “The silence inside of you is the sound of your knowledge collapsing. Remember, it is you who said, ‘I want to be free.’”

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27. “The unknown, our own true nature, has the capacity to wake itself up when you start to fall in love with letting go of all the mental structures you hold onto. Contemplate this: there is no such thing as a true belief.”

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28. “To be free of fear is to be full of Love.”

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29. “Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn’t exist?”

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30. “What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make through personal investigation.”

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31. “Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully.”

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32. “All is always well even when it seems unbelievably unwell.”

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33. “You think that enlightenment is something other than what is happening right now. This is your primary mistake.”

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34. “Refuse to disconnect from love and every relationship will be totally transformed; even the relationship with yourself.”

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35. “The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.”

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36. “Whenever you aren’t manipulating your experience, you’re meditating. As soon as you meditate because you think you should, you’re controlling your experience again, and you’ve squeezed all the value out of your meditation.”

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37. “If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.”

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38. “Enlightenment is the natural state of consciousness, the innocent state of consciousness, that state which is uncontaminated by the movement of thought, uncontaminated by control or manipulation of mind.”

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39. “The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda.”

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40. “True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.”

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41. “Reality is always true to itself. When you’re in harmony with it, you experience bliss. As soon as you are not in harmony with it, you experience pain. This is the law of the universe; it is the way things are. Nobody gets out of this law.”

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42. “Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.”

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43. “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.”

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44. “Faith is a withholding of conclusion so that you allow what is to arise.”

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45. “You are the doorway to the infinite.”

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46. “How do I integrate spirituality into my everyday life? Throw out the concept of “spiritual life” and “everyday life.” There is only life, undivided and whole.”

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47. “You must want to know the truth more than you want to feel secure in order to fully awaken to the fact that you are nothing but Awakeness itself.”

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48. “The process of finding the truth may not be a process by which we feel increasingly better and better. It may be a process by which we look at things honestly, sincerely, truthfully, and that may or may not be an easy thing to do.”

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49. “When you inquire ‘Who am I?’ if you are honest, you’ll notice that it takes you right back to silence instantly. The brain doesn’t have an answer, so all of a sudden there is silence.”

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50. “Whatever you want, be it. If you want connection, it’s because you are connection. Be what you want, and then it happens all around you. If you want love, be it. You’ll have more love than you know what to do with. Whatever you are inside, you receive a thousandfold on the outside.”

— Adyashanti