black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The you who is chasing enlightenment will never become enlightened. Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach,

Adyashanti

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

Biggest Completely Embrace Love Realize Realizing Universe
Every time you claim, “I am this”, you just claimed another sense perception, thought, emotion, or feeling.
ADYASHANTI

Claim Claimed Emotion Feeling Perception Sense Time
Human beings have a drive for security and safety, which is often what fuels the spiritual search. This very drive for security and safety is what causes so much misery and confusion.
ADYASHANTI

Distance Fuel Human Often Search Security Spiritual Thinking
True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.
ADYASHANTI

Direction Goal Meditation Prayer Pure Silent Surrender Wordless
It simply means that if this desire to feel good is stronger than the yearning to see, know, and experience Truth, then this desire will always be distorting the perception of what is Real, while corrupting one’s deepest integrity.
ADYASHANTI

Desire Experience Feel Perception Simply Stronger Yeaning
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

Allow Anything Control Exactly Meditation Moment Need
The moment that you are willing to step outside of tomorrow, outside of needing more time, or having more time, everything becomes possible. And you may finally notice where the Buddha has always been.
ADYASHANTI

Having May Moment More Needing Outside Step Time Tomorrow Willing
The realization of Truth and Reality can never be created by the mind … it always comes as a gift of grace. Inquiry clears away misperceptions and illusions, making one available to the movements of grace.
ADYASHANTI

Come Gift Grace Mind Reality Realization Truth
It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the rabid dissatisfaction with living anything less than a fully authentic life.
ADYASHANTI

Bliss Enlightenment Grantor Happiness Pursuit Reality State Yearning
Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.
ADYASHANTI

Only Silence Teacher Teaching Time
So most of us human beings have a very deep underlying conditioning that says that just to be who we are is not OK…….
ADYASHANTI

Conditioning Deep Human Most OK Underlying
Take the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you.
ADYASHANTI

Armor Arrow Penetrate Truth
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

Aware Begin Conscious Eye First Important Suffering Thing
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

Answer Inquiry Looking Right Self Spirituality Stripping Wintertime
You lose your separateness, you lose your specialness, you lose the dream you have lived all your life. Eventually you lose everything that your mind has created and awaken to who you truly are: the fullness of freedom, unbound by any identifications, identities, or boundaries.
ADYASHANTI

Awaken Boundaries Dream Everything Life Lose Seeker Separateness Spiritual
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

Difficulties Giving Hide Hiding Lavishing Nirvana State

The you who is chasing enlightenment will never become enlightened. Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach,

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The you who is chasing enlightenment will never become enlightened. Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach,

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Adyashanti Quotes