black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

As long as you perceive that anyone is holding you back, you have not taken full responsibility for your own liberation. Liberation means that you stand free of making demands on others and life to make you happy.

Adyashanti

Many spiritual people are involved in a radical denial of what is happening. They want to transcend it, get rid of it, get out of it, get away from it. There’s nothing wrong with that feeling, but the approach doesn’t work because it’s escapism in spiritual clothing.
ADYASHANTI

Happening Involved Pain People Radical Spiritual
There’s something more to life than what we see on the surface.
ADYASHANTI

Life More See Something Surface
If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.
ADYASHANTI

Attachment Consciousness Elsewhere Listen Sit Something Want
Life itself is nothing but relationship.
ADYASHANTI

Inspirational Life Itself Nothing
When you discover yourself to be nothing but Freedom, you stop setting up conditions and requirements that need to be satisfied in order for you to be happy.
ADYASHANTI

Anyone Condition Discover Freedom Happy Holding Requirement Satisfied Setting Yourself
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

Clarity Confusion Gift Giving Humanity Moment
You must choose between your attachments and happiness.
ADYASHANTI

Attachment Happiness Must Choose Positive Selected Thinking
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
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
Nothingness is an absolute infinite potential, not an empty box.
ADYASHANTI

Absolute Boxes Empty Infinite Nothingness Potential
Whatever you want, be it. If you want connection, it’s because you are connection. Be what you want, and then it happens all around you. If you want love, be it.
ADYASHANTI

Connect Connections Love Want Wanted Whatever
What if you let go of every bit of control and every urge that you have, right down to the most infinitesimal urge to control anything, anywhere, including anything that may be happening with you at this moment?
ADYASHANTI

Control Down Giving Up Go Infinitesimal Letting Light Most Right
True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.
ADYASHANTI

Direction Goal Meditation Prayer Pure Silent Surrender Wordless
What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make through personal investigation.
ADYASHANTI

Able Discovery Matter Mimic People Practice Spiritual Spirituality
If you think that people should be nice to one another, then by all means be nice. But when you project that belief onto the people and the world around you as if it were an objective reality, or worse still.
ADYASHANTI

Another Belief Job Mean Nice One Project Think
This movement of grasping and aversion gives rise to a sense of a separate ‘me,’ and in turn the sense of ‘me’ strengthens itself this way.
ADYASHANTI

Aversion Grasping Movement Rise Sense Separate Strengthens

As long as you perceive that anyone is holding you back, you have not taken full responsibility for your own liberation. Liberation means that you stand free of making demands on others and life to make you happy.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

As long as you perceive that anyone is holding you back, you have not taken full responsibility for your own liberation. Liberation means that you stand free of making demands on others and life to make you happy.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Adyashanti Quotes