black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Have you noticed, with whatever quality of love you have experienced, that when true love arises, it opens up both your mind and emotions? It’s an openness to whatever is happening.

Adyashanti

Enlightenment is a destructive process.
ADYASHANTI

Destructive Enlightenment Process
Space and stillness is the light that illuminates the beauty of our soul’s being.
ADYASHANTI

Beauty Illuminate Light Soul Space Stillness
The mind wants to land, to fixate, to hold a concept, but the only way you can be really free is by not fixating. That’s part of true maturity, and it’s one of the hardest things for spiritual people who have had true and powerful revelations to go through.
ADYASHANTI

Fixate Fixating Free Go Letting Mind Powerful Spiritual Want
Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier.
ADYASHANTI

Becoming Better Crumbling Destructive Enlightenment Process
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

Born Escaping Eternal Human Humanity Love Meet
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
The biggest embrace of love you’ll ever make is to embrace yourself completely. Then you’ll realize you’ve just embraced the whole universe, and everything and everybody in it.
ADYASHANTI

Biggest Completely Embrace Love Realize Realizing Universe
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

Anybody Compassion Enough Include Leave Perspective Until Vision
There’s a great space in which this moment takes place. There’s a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.
ADYASHANTI

Listening Moment Place Silence Space Thought
A spiritual teaching is a finger pointing toward Reality; it is not Reality itself. To be in a true and mature relationship with a spiritual teaching requires you to apply it, not simply believe in it.
ADYASHANTI

Believe Finger Mature Pointing Relationship Spiritual Teaching True
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.
ADYASHANTI

Meditation Necessity Practice Seeking Silence Yoga
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 ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.
ADYASHANTI

Actually Awakening Ego Freedom Irrelevant Nonexistent Ultimate
The most difficult thing for spiritual seekers to do is to stop struggling, striving, seeking, and searching. Why? Because in the absence of struggle you don’t know who you are; you lose your boundaries.
ADYASHANTI

Difficult Dream Life Searching Seeker Spiritual Struggling
When we’re in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose.
ADYASHANTI

Bring Feel Life Moment Purpose True
As I often tell my students, the person you’ll have the hardest time opening to and truly loving without reserve is yourself. Once you can do that, you can love the whole universe unconditionally.
ADYASHANTI

Hardest Loving Often Opening Person Reserve Student Time

Have you noticed, with whatever quality of love you have experienced, that when true love arises, it opens up both your mind and emotions? It’s an openness to whatever is happening.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Have you noticed, with whatever quality of love you have experienced, that when true love arises, it opens up both your mind and emotions? It’s an openness to whatever is happening.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Adyashanti Quotes