black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

When you stand in your own authority, based in your own direct experience, you meet that ultimate mystery that you are. Even though it may be at first unsettling to look into your own no-thingness.

Adyashanti

That there is nothing to support, that the whole ego experience was a flimsy illusion. So you stand alone but are never, never lonely because everywhere you look, all you see is That, and you are That.
ADYASHANTI

Alone Ego Everywhere Experience Flimsy Illusion Lonely never Support Whole
Everybody is free to be as they are. Until the whole world is free to agree with you or disagree with you, until you have given the freedom to everyone to like you or not like you, to love you or hate you,
ADYASHANTI

Agree Disagree Everybody Freedom Given Like Until
Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true. It is the way Life suggests that you are not in harmony with what is.
ADYASHANTI

Misperceiving Real Resisting Suffering Tell True Way
No matter what spiritual path you’ve walked or what teachings you’ve followed, they must lead you back to no path and no teaching. A true teaching is like a blazing fire that consumes itself.
ADYASHANTI

Fire Happen Lead Path Spiritual Spirituality Teaching Walked
There is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.
ADYASHANTI

Apart Conscious Consciousness Individual
When someone says, ‘I love you,’ he is telling you about himself, not you. When someone says, ‘I hate you,’ she is telling you about herself, not you. World views are self views-literally.
ADYASHANTI

Elsewhere Hate Love Self Someone Wanted
Nothingness is an absolute infinite potential, not an empty box.
ADYASHANTI

Absolute Boxes Empty Infinite Nothingness Potential
The middle way is an invitation to leap beyond nirvana and samsara and to realize the unborn Buddha mind right in the middle of everywhere.
ADYASHANTI

Beyond Buddha Everywhere Invitation Middle Unborn
To pause for just a moment and realize that maybe you aren’t who you imagine yourself to be.
ADYASHANTI

Imagine Moment Pause Realize Yourself
You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.
ADYASHANTI

Consciously Figure Greatest Incredible Joy Mystery
True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.
ADYASHANTI

Derive Doe Intelligence Thinking Thought Use Uses
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

Choose Moment Necessary Nothing Thinking Thought Trying Whenever Wrong
Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.
ADYASHANTI

Death Dress Dresses Meditation Rehearsal
Life itself is nothing but relationship.
ADYASHANTI

Inspirational Life Itself Nothing
You are not your story. They are not your story about them. The world is not your story about the world.
ADYASHANTI

Stories Story Them World
In the same vein, my teachings are not meant to acquire followers or imitators, but to awaken beings to eternal truth and thus to awakened life and living.
ADYASHANTI

Acquire Awakened Eternal Follower Initiator Living Teaching

When you stand in your own authority, based in your own direct experience, you meet that ultimate mystery that you are. Even though it may be at first unsettling to look into your own no-thingness.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

When you stand in your own authority, based in your own direct experience, you meet that ultimate mystery that you are. Even though it may be at first unsettling to look into your own no-thingness.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Adyashanti Quotes