black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Adyashanti

You don’t awaken, what has eternally been awake realizes itself. That which is eternally awake is what you are.
ADYASHANTI

Aggrandizing Awaken Confident Feel Puffed React Story
We need to see each moment of apparent bondage as an invitation to freedom. Then it becomes an act of love, an act of compassion, to stop running away.
ADYASHANTI

Apparent Bondage Compassion Freedom Invitation Need Running Stop
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
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

Bird Decide Different Outside Really Sound Thought
A spiritual teaching is a finger pointing toward Reality; it is not Reality itself. To be in a true and mature relationship with a spiritual teaching requires you to apply it, not simply believe in it.
ADYASHANTI

Believe Finger Mature Pointing Relationship Spiritual Teaching True
Whatever you resist, persists.
ADYASHANTI

Persist Resist Whatever
Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.
ADYASHANTI

Belief Concept Few Freedom Idea People Truly
In liberation, you stand alone. You stand alone because you need no supports of any kind. You need no supports because you have realized that the very notion of a separate you no longer exists.
ADYASHANTI

Ego Liberation Lonely Stand Support
We don’t come to nirvana by avoiding samsara. We don’t come to clarity by avoiding confusion.
ADYASHANTI

Avoid Avoiding Confusion Nirvana Samsara
Deep down we all suspect that something is very wrong with the way we perceive life but we try very, very hard not to notice it. And the way we remain blind to our frightful condition is through an obsessive and pathological denial of being.
ADYASHANTI

Door Fate God Hard Light Perceive Something Try Trying Wrong
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
Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.
ADYASHANTI

Death Dress Dresses Meditation Rehearsal
To remain unconscious of being is to remain asleep to our own reality and therefore asleep to reality at large. The choice is simple: awaken to being or sleep an endless sleep.
ADYASHANTI

Asleep Choice Endless Large Reality Remain Sleep Unconcious
As you peel it back, in the heart of nothing, that is love. You are what you are seeking. Life is a set up so that each of us can actually see in ourselves the truth for ourselves.
ADYASHANTI

Each Heart Life Love Nothing Peel Seeking Taken You
Gratitude is the appreciation of what is, of life, of existence, of anybody and anything, for just the way it is.
ADYASHANTI

Anybody Appreciate Appreciation Existence Gratitude Way
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

Concept Delay Encounters Idea Instant Down Stop

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Adyashanti Quotes