All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.
ADYASHANTIWhen you get out of the driver’s seat, you find that life can drive itself, that actually life has always been driving itself. When you get out of the driver’s seat, it can drive itself so much easier-it can flow in ways you never imagined.
More Adyashanti Quotes
-
-
When the eternal and the human meet, that’s where love is born — not through escaping our humanity or trying to disappear into transcendence, but through finding that place where they come into union.
ADYASHANTI -
Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn’t exist?
ADYASHANTI -
The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being.
ADYASHANTI -
With this love you can feel the walls of opposition come down naturally in the acknowledgement of deep connection. Not only do the walls of opposition fall, but love is felt for every human being and for life itself.
ADYASHANTI -
The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.
ADYASHANTI -
Take the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you.
ADYASHANTI -
At any moment, we are either giving humanity the gift of our clarity or our confusion. And that clarity or confusion is affecting the humanity around us, the world around us. It is manifesting. It is taking form.
ADYASHANTI -
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 -
To pause for just a moment and realize that maybe you aren’t who you imagine yourself to be.
ADYASHANTI -
We must become expressions of, not consumers of, realization.
ADYASHANTI -
An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.
ADYASHANTI -
No one can give you the strength of character necessary… Only you can find that passion within that burns with an integrity that will not settle for anything less than the Truth.
ADYASHANTI -
What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.
ADYASHANTI -
One must be willing to stand alone – in the unknown, with no reference to authority or the past or any of one’s conditioning. One must stand where no one has stood before in complete nakedness, innocence, and humility.
ADYASHANTI -
The question of being is everything. Nothing could be more important or consequential-n othing where the stakes run so high.
ADYASHANTI