black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but it does change.

Adyashanti

You are the doorway to the infinite.
ADYASHANTI

Doorway Infinite Set
You can’t look at what’s looking. You can’t think about that which is prior to thought.
ADYASHANTI

Look Looking Prior Think Thinking Thought
What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.
ADYASHANTI

Appreciate Appreciation Attention Freedom Holding Living Meditation
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

Alone Authority Humility Innocence Past Reference Stand Unknown
Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control. This is meditation. Anything else is actually a form of concentration. Meditation and concentration are two different things. Concentration is a discipline.
ADYASHANTI

Anything Control Go Letting Mastering Meditation Real Technique Two
Most human beings spend their lives battling with opposing inner forces: what they think they should do versus what they are doing; how they feel about themselves versus how they are; whether they think they’re right and worthy or wrong and unworthy.
ADYASHANTI

Batting Division Force Human Opposing Self Thinking Versus
There is, quite literally, nothing to understand.
ADYASHANTI

Literally Nothing Quite Understand
We need to see each moment of apparent bondage as an invitation to freedom. Then it becomes an act of love, an act of compassion, to stop running away.
ADYASHANTI

Apparent Bondage Compassion Freedom Invitation Need Running Stop
Whenever you aren’t manipulating your experience, you’re meditating. As soon as you meditate because you think you should, you’re controlling your experience again, and you’ve squeezed all the value out of your meditation.
ADYASHANTI

Experience Manipulating Meditating Meditation Think Thinking
We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world.
ADYASHANTI

Birthed Community Sacred Sangha World
You do it anyway. Why? Because you no longer want to suffer. Because you’re willing to be disturbed. You’re willing to be amazed. You’re willing to be surprised.
ADYASHANTI

Anyway Disturbed Longer Suffer Surprised Willing
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
When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what’s left? A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are.
ADYASHANTI

Awakening Brightness Fade Idea Image Imagination Quietness
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

Asking Distant Enlightenment Goal Invite Reach Separation Stop Striving
Eventually, in the state of liberation, meditation will simply become your natural condition.
ADYASHANTI

Condition Eventuality Liberation Meditation Natural
When you see that everything is a momentary display of reality, then you stop resisting it. Resistance hurts, only every single time. Love is the state of nonresistance.
ADYASHANTI

Love Maintain Sorrow State Trying Unpleasant

The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but it does change.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but it does change.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Adyashanti Quotes