Be a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don’t expect it to be easy or even noticed.
ADYASHANTIMeditation is not something restricted to times of formal seated meditation; it is most fundamentally an attitude of being-a resting in and as being. Once you get the feel of it, you will be able to tune into it more and more often during your daily life.
More Adyashanti Quotes
-
-
If we know who and what we are very thoroughly, we will express and manifest that in what we do. It is all very simple.
ADYASHANTI -
Refuse to disconnect from love and every relationship will be totally transformed; even the relationship with yourself.
ADYASHANTI -
If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.
ADYASHANTI -
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 -
Nobody can give us what we really already are. Wouldn’t it be terrible if somebody could give you what you really are? …’cause if they could give it to you, they could take it away.
ADYASHANTI -
Embrace suffering, and you transform your relationship with what causes you to suffer, as well as your relationship with suffering itself.
ADYASHANTI -
The Way of Liberation is not a belief system; it is something to be put into practice.
ADYASHANTI -
Feel your way into what I am saying rather than thinking about it. Only a self-concept looks and longs for God. Drop your self-concept and there is only God meeting God. Enlightenment is the restoration of cosmic humor.
ADYASHANTI -
Right now you can allow yourself to experience a very simple sense of not knowing – not knowing what or who you are, not knowing what this moment is, not knowing anything.
ADYASHANTI -
Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.
ADYASHANTI -
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.
ADYASHANTI -
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 -
There is nothing wrong with thought and it can be used whenever necessary. But in every moment you can choose to follow your thoughts or you can recognize that which is not thinking. Don’t try to stop thinking, let it happen. Just recognize that which is not thinking.
ADYASHANTI -
You think that enlightenment is something other than what is happening right now. This is your primary mistake.
ADYASHANTI -
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.
ADYASHANTI