There is profound responsibility in being Love… more than the mind could imagine or hold up under. If most human beings truly realized the impact that they have on the whole, they’d be crushed by the realization of it.
ADYASHANTIAs if some dreadful fate would overcome us if we were to face the pure light of truth and lay bare our fearful clinging to illusion.
More Adyashanti Quotes
-
-
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 -
Radiantly nothing. Absolutely and eternally zero. Emptiness that is awake. Emptiness that is full. Emptiness that is everything.
ADYASHANTI -
To find out that you are empty of emptiness is to die into an aware mystery, which is the source of all existence.
ADYASHANTI -
It is easy to imagine that the Buddha, the awakened one, is something or somewhere other than here or that awakening to reality will happen sometime other than now. But as long as we continue to think in terms of time we will deceive ourselves.
ADYASHANTI -
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 -
Eventually, in the state of liberation, meditation will simply become your natural condition.
ADYASHANTI -
Silence and stillness are not states and therefore cannot be produced or created. Silence is the non-state in which all states arise and subside. Silence, stillness and awareness are not states and can never be perceived in their totality as objects.
ADYASHANTI -
The perspective of Love doesn’t leave anybody out. Until your vision and compassion is big enough to include those who oppose you, you are simply contributing to the continuation of destructiveness . The end of separation is the salvation for all.
ADYASHANTI -
Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering.
ADYASHANTI -
So the biggest act of compassion starts within. And when the self is no longer seen as a problem, this is called “the peace that passes all understanding.
ADYASHANTI -
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 -
Embrace suffering, and you transform your relationship with what causes you to suffer, as well as your relationship with suffering itself.
ADYASHANTI -
The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?
ADYASHANTI -
The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.
ADYASHANTI -
Whatever you can become will ultimately be destroyed. Only what you already are can’t be taken away.
ADYASHANTI