Top 250 Adyashanti Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Ego is nothing more than the beliefs, ideas, and images we have about ourselves – and so it is actually.”

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152. “What is really important you can’t understand with your mind.”

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153. “The first stage of the awakening journey is the calling. The calling arrives when we first feel that spiritual impulse that galvanizes our attention. All of a sudden we sense a greater mystery to life that we seek to experience more deeply; it literally calls us.”

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154. “All we really want in the end is to be connected once again with the Truth of our being, to realize what it is that wears this mask of self.”

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155. “You will only lose when you resist reality; you will only struggle when you disagree with what is.”

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156. “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.”

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157. “When we believe what we think, when we take our thinking to be reality, we will suffer.”

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158. “What you run away from owns you. You are the dog on a leash. The most you can do is to tug against the leash.”

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159. “Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.”

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160. “Our yearning for truth actually comes from truth.”

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161. “All of these are labels. All of them are fine. There is nothing wrong with any one of them, until you actually believe they’re true. 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 more than a thought.”

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162. “The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?”

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163. “Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable, it is true. THOMAS MERTON.”

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164. “Love moves without an agenda. It just moves because that is its nature to move.”

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165. “Those who are free don’t want anything. They don’t want anything from their mind, they don’t want anything from their emotions, they don’t want anything from anyone, and they don’t want anything from life. They don’t want anything. If you don’t want, all that’s left is an incredible sense of being free.”

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166. “In silence a question has great power, because in silence a question will always lead you deeper into your experience. If there is no grounding in silence, a spiritual question is going to lead you into your mind.”

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167. “Spirituality does not require that you work hard toward achieving a result in the future as much as it requires you to be fully present, sincere and committed now, with absolute honesty and willingness to uncover and let go of any illusions that come between you and the realization of Reality.”

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168. “Aspiration is not so much a matter of the mind as of the heart, in that it is a reflection of what you cherish, love, and value most. You do not need to be reminded of what you truly love, only of what you do not love. And what you actually love is most truly reflected in your actions, not in what you feel, think, or say.”

— Adyashanti

169. “Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.”

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

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171. “As long as you are trying to become, trying to get somewhere, trying to attain something, you are quite literally moving away from the Truth itself.”

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172. “The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being...”

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173. “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.”

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174. “Absolute Truth is not a belief, not a religion, not a philosophy, not a momentary experience, and not a transient spiritual experience either. It is neither static nor in motion, neither good nor bad. It is other than all of that, more other than you can ever imagine. Truth cannot be touched by thought or imagined by the mind. It can only be found in the heart of universal being. To know thy self is the key. To bring forth your being is The Way.”

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175. “One of my favorite definitions of enlightenment comes from a Jesuit priest named Anthony de Mello, who passed away some years ago. Someone asked him to define his experience of enlightenment. He said, “Enlightenment is absolute cooperation with the inevitable.” I love that, because it defines enlightenment not just as a realization, but as an activity. Enlightenment is when everything within us is in cooperation with the flow of life itself, with the inevitable.”

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176. “We have to realize that spirit is an infinite potential that includes everything. And all of our lives are proof that our spiritual nature contains everything at once – that we can become clear or confused, that we can act loving or cruel. How we act and feel depends on how awake we are, and how much we experience that silence, that peace, within.”

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

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178. “The beautiful thing about the truth of being is that it’s so unimaginably immediate.”

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179. “What is required after a glimpse of awakening is radical honesty, a willingness to look at how we unenlighten ourselves, how we bring ourselves back into the gravitational force of the dream state, how we allow ourselves to be divided.”

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180. “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.”

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181. “The Truth doesn’t answer anything. The Truth IS everything!”

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182. “When our minds start to open, we’re no longer in a constant state of evaluation and judgment. Naturally, then, our senses open – and we can really see what is before us. Our eyes open in a different way, our hearing opens in a different way, our emotions open, our hearts open to all of existence. We see how judging and condemning actually close our hearts and harden us to our experience of life and others.”

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183. “Awareness isn’t something we own; awareness isn’t something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.”

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184. “Jesus is saying, “Come, come into the Kingdom of Heaven. The Kingdom of Heaven exists on the face of the earth, and men and women do not understand it.”

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185. “The primary task of any good spiritual teaching is not to answer your questions, but to question your answers.”

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186. “To be intimate is to feel the silence, the space that everything is happening in.”

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187. “It’s easy to use meditative techniques to suppress our human experiences, to suppress things that we don’t want to feel. But what is called for is just the opposite. True Meditation is the space in which everything is revealed, everything is seen, everything is experienced.”

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188. “Religion’s primary function is to awaken within us the experience of the sublime and to connect us with the mystery of existence.”

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189. “There is more truth and sacredness in a blade of grass than in all the shrines, scriptures and stories created to honor an idea of God.”

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190. “We must become expressions of, not consumers of, realization.”

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191. “Awakeness is not moving back from, trying to explain, trying to fix, or get rid of. Awakeness, when it’s allowed to be experienced, is a deep love and caring for what is. Love is always throwing itself into the moment, here and now, fully abandoning itself into now. To be in relationship in this way is simple. It is humble. It is very intimate. Then you can meet another person in a whole different way.”

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192. “Of course, there are those churches today that are inspired by the real living presence of Christ, but as a whole, Christianity needs new life breathed into it. It needs to be challenged to awaken from the old structures that confine spirit, so that the perennial spirit of awakening can flourish once again.”

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193. “Life itself is nothing but relationship.”

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194. “Our minds may believe that we need subtle and complex spiritual teachings to guide us to Reality, but we do not. In fact, the more complex the teaching is, the easier it is for the mind to hide from itself amidst the complexity while imagining that it is advancing toward enlightenment. But it is often only advancing in creating more and more intricate circles to walk around and around in.”

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195. “Everyone around us sees themselves as essentially different from others, and from life in general. So we move in a world where almost everyone we meet will be reflecting back to us this egoic sense of consciousness. To find liberation, we must wake up from this dream that our mind creates, that we’re something separate than everything around us.”

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196. “This world is not my concern; it is myself.”

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197. “Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.”

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198. “The greatest dream that we can have is to forget that we are dreaming.”

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199. “You can’t look at what’s looking. You can’t think about that which is prior to thought.”

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200. “Everything, in its way, is a gift – even the painful things. In reality, all of life – every moment, every experience – is an expression of spirit.”

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