black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Freedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom.

Adyashanti

When you rest deeply in the Unknown without trying to escape, your experience becomes very vast. As the experience of the Unknown deepens, your boundaries begin to dissolve. You realize, not just intellectually but on a deep level, that you have no idea who or what you are.
ADYASHANTI

Deeply Escape Experience Ideas Knowing Personality
Most people don’t get out of childhood, or adolescence, without being wounded for telling the truth. Someone says ‘you can’t say that’ or ‘you shouldn’t say that’ or ‘that wasn’t appropriate’.
ADYASHANTI

Adolescence Behind Childhood Inner Ourselves People Real Thread
The Way of Liberation is not a belief system; it is something to be put into practice.
ADYASHANTI

Belief Liberation Practice Put Something System Way
It is one thing to touch a flame and know it is hot, but quite another to jump into that flame and be consumed by it.
ADYASHANTI

Another Burning Consumed Flame Hot Jump Quite Touch
The goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.
ADYASHANTI

Buddhism Buddhist Christian Christianity Create Created
In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself. Primordial awareness is the source in which all objects arise and subside.
ADYASHANTI

Awareness Knowing Listening Meditate Meditation Object Primordial Resting
At each moment we are expressing what we know ourselves to be. If we know ourselves very little we will express and manifest that unconsciousness of our true nature.
ADYASHANTI

Each Express Expressing Little Moment Ourselves Simple
Whatever you resist, persists.
ADYASHANTI

Persist Resist Whatever
The joke of it all is that you are looking from your true nature right now without knowing it. If you would stop being fascinated with the contents of your mind, you would experience what I am saying.
ADYASHANTI

Being Joke Knowing Nature Self Stop Thinking
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

Ask Avoiding Enlightenment Invite Moment Present
Feel your way into what I am saying rather than thinking about it. Only a self-concept looks and longs for God. Drop your self-concept and there is only God meeting God. Enlightenment is the restoration of cosmic humor.
ADYASHANTI

Concept Enlightenment Fascinated God Looking Rather Self
The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?
ADYASHANTI

Ask Intimate Most Power Question Self Spiritual
The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.
ADYASHANTI

Awakening Barrier Belief Biggest Rare Something
The mind may accept or deny that you are awareness, but either way it can’t really understand. It cannot comprehend. Thought cannot comprehend what is beyond thought.
ADYASHANTI

Accept Awareness Comprehensive May Mind Understand Way
My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.
ADYASHANTI

Awake Awakening Better Dream Meant Shake Speaking
True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.
ADYASHANTI

Desire True Freedom

Freedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Freedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Adyashanti Quotes