Top 250 Adyashanti Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.”

— Adyashanti

102. “There’s a fierceness about life that calls for a fierceness to not anxiously solve it but to allow it to transform you.”

— Adyashanti

103. “The truth is that you already are what you are seeking. You are looking for God with his eyes. I suggest you ask, “What’s ultimately behind this set of eyes?” Turn around to see what is looking.”

— Adyashanti

104. “Stop all delays, all seeking and all striving. Put down your concepts, ideas and beliefs. For one instant be still and directly encounter the silent unknown core of your being. In that instant Freedom will embrace you and reveal the Awakening that you are.”

— Adyashanti

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

— Adyashanti

106. “In the end it’s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t.”

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107. “What would happen if you were to allow everything to be exactly as it is? If you gave up the need for control, and instead embraced the whole of your experience in each moment that arose?”

— Adyashanti

108. “Life sustains itself. Let go of the ego and life takes care of itself through you.”

— Adyashanti

109. “Has it ever occurred to you that you are seeking God with His eyes?”

— Adyashanti

110. “Imagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.”

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111. “When you begin to become conscious, more aware, when your eyes begin to open, the first thing you see is how deluded you are and how much you’re holding onto that which makes you suffer. This is, in many ways, the most important step: Are you willing to be aware?”

— Adyashanti

112. “True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.”

— Adyashanti

113. “Anything you avoid in life will come back, over and over again, until you’re willing to face it – to look deeply into its true nature.”

— Adyashanti

114. “Until the whole world is free to agree with you or disagree with you, until you have given the freedom to everyone to like you or not like you, to love you or hate you, to see things as you see them or to see things differently – until you have given the whole world its freedom – you’ll never have your freedom.”

— Adyashanti

115. “Enlightenment is nothing more than the complete absence of resistance to what is. End of story.”

— Adyashanti

116. “There’s a great space in which this moment takes place. There’s a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.”

— Adyashanti

117. “Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.”

— Adyashanti

118. “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.”

— Adyashanti

119. “When you argue with reality, reality always wins.”

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120. “Only something as insane as human beings would ever asked themselves if ‘I’m good.’ You don’t find oak trees having existential crisis. ‘I feel so rotten about myself. I don’t produce as much acorns as the one next to me.’”

— Adyashanti

121. “We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world.”

— Adyashanti

122. “Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness.”

— Adyashanti

123. “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?”

— Adyashanti

124. “Whatever the image of yourself, it’s a mask and it’s hiding emptiness.”

— Adyashanti

125. “When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what’s left? A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are.”

— Adyashanti

126. “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.”

— Adyashanti

127. “Ego is neither positive nor negative. Those are simply concepts that create more boundaries. Ego is just ego, and the disaster of it all is that you, as a spiritual seeker, have been conditioned to think of the ego as bad, as an enemy, as something to be destroyed. This simply strengthens the ego. In fact, such conclusions arise from the ego itself. Pay no attention to them. Don’t go to war with yourself; simply inquire into who you are.”

— Adyashanti

128. “True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.”

— Adyashanti

129. “All delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we’re talking to ourselves and then believing what we are saying.”

— Adyashanti

130. “Whatever you can become will ultimately be destroyed. Only what you already are can’t be taken away.”

— Adyashanti

131. “Self-inquiry is a spiritually induced form of wintertime. It’s not about looking for a right answer so much as stripping away and letting you see what is not necessary, what you can do without, what you are without your leaves.”

— Adyashanti

132. “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.”

— Adyashanti

133. “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 moment, and dare to consider that you can be free now.”

— Adyashanti

134. “Whatever you think you are, that’s not it.”

— Adyashanti

135. “Because of an innocent misunderstanding you think that you are a human being in the relative world seeking the experience of oneness, but actually you are the One expressing itself as the experience of being a human being.”

— Adyashanti

136. “Jesus said, “I have cast fire upon the world, and see, I am guarding it until it blazes.” GOSPEL OF THOMAS.”

— Adyashanti

137. “Grace is something that comes to us when we somehow find ourselves completely available, when we become openhearted and open-minded, and are willing to entertain the possibility that we may not know what we think we know.”

— Adyashanti

138. “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.”

— Adyashanti

139. “I often describe the Absolute as Pure Infinite Potential, prior to being or becoming anything. It is forever unborn, yet gives birth to all of existence. About our ultimate nature nothing can be said; it must be revealed.”

— Adyashanti

140. “You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.”

— Adyashanti

141. “The proof of the depth and embodiment of your realization will be seen in your love relationship. That’s where the proof is in the pudding. If it all collapses in your relationship, you have some work to do. And people do have a lot of difficulties in their relationships.”

— Adyashanti

142. “The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.”

— Adyashanti

143. “Ultimate Reality is not a certain state of consciousness, no matter how wonderful or blissful. Reality is the ground of all being, unborn and undying eternity. It is as present in one experience or state of consciousness as in any other. Reality, or Truth, is that which is ultimately true in all states, at all times, in all locations.”

— Adyashanti

144. “It is one thing to touch a flame and know it is hot, but quite another to jump into that flame and be consumed by it.”

— Adyashanti

145. “When you realize what you are now, the issue of death will solve itself.”

— Adyashanti

146. “As I often tell my students, the person you’ll have the hardest time opening to and truly loving without reserve is yourself. Once you can do that, you can love the whole universe unconditionally.”

— Adyashanti

147. “Freedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom.”

— Adyashanti

148. “There’s only one guarantee that Jesus gave: if you can receive and awaken and embody what he is speaking about, then your life will never be the same again. Then you will realize that you’re already living in the Kingdom of Heaven.”

— Adyashanti

149. “Imagine if you took it on in yourself to reorient your life trajectory toward your divinity. Your divinity: I so loved the world, that I gave it all of myself. Imagine your birth as an act of pouring yourself forth into life as a loving means of redemption. Imagine your human life as what you have come to redeem. And when you’ve fully awakened to all of it, then you’ve fully redeemed your human incarnation.”

— Adyashanti

150. “Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?”

— Adyashanti