One Zen master said, The whole universe is my true personality. This is a very wonderful saying… If you want to see what you truly are, open the window, and everything you see is in fact the expression of your inner reality. Can you embrace all of it?
ADYASHANTISincere and committed now, with absolute honesty and willingness to uncover and let go of any illusions that come between you and the realization of Reality.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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In order to be truly free, you must desire to know the truth more than you want to feel good. Because, if feeling good is your goal, then as soon as you feel better you will lose interest in what is true.
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As if it were their job to be nice to you, you put yourself at odds with what is, and suffering will surely follow.
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Life becomes almost magical. The illusion of the “me” is no longer in the way. Life begins to flow, and you never know where it will take you.
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To pause for just a moment and realize that maybe you aren’t who you imagine yourself to be.
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Enlightenment is the natural state of consciousness, the innocent state of consciousness, that state which is uncontaminated by the movement of thought, uncontaminated by control or manipulation of mind.
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To awaken to the absolute view is profound and transformative, but to awaken from all fixed points of view is the birth of true non-duality. If emptiness cannot dance, it is not true emptiness.
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Awareness isn’t something we own; awareness isn’t something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.
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All you have to do is say “yes.” Don’t make some big project out of it. Don’t make some big deal out of it. Just say “yes.” You don’t even know what it means to say “yes,” but you say it anyway. You’ll never know what it means to say “yes,” but you do it anyway.
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When you realize what you are now, the issue of death will solve itself.
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When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are.
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There’s a fierceness about life that calls for a fierceness to not anxiously solve it but to allow it to transform you.
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Love moves without an agenda. It just moves because that is its nature to move.
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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.
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As if some dreadful fate would overcome us if we were to face the pure light of truth and lay bare our fearful clinging to illusion.
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All is always well even when it seems unbelievably unwell.
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