black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.

Adyashanti

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

Disappearance Freedom Searching Soul
A meditative mind is at ease because it’s not trying to acquire anything.
ADYASHANTI

Anything Aquire Ease Meditative Mind Trying
Meditation is a teaching which offers you the possibility of breaking free of this egoic state of consciousness and coming into a whole new realization of who and what you truly are. And all this starts with the willingness to question.
ADYASHANTI

Consciousness Egoic Meditation Offer Possibility Realization Teaching
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
We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world.
ADYASHANTI

Birthed Community Sacred Sangha World
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
You’ll have more love than you know what to do with. Whatever you are inside, you receive a thousandfold on the outside.
ADYASHANTI

Fold Inside Love More Outside Recieve Thousand
At first it seems as if begoing follows becoming. But look even closer and you will see that there are only flashes of lightning illuminating the empty sky.
ADYASHANTI

Becoming Begging Closer First Flashes Follow Journey Seem Sky
The unknown, our own true nature, has the capacity to wake itself up when you start to fall in love with letting go of all the mental structures you hold onto. Contemplate this: there is no such thing as a true belief.
ADYASHANTI

Capasitymitself Fall Go Letting Nature Spiritual True Unknown Wisdom
Human beings have a drive for security and safety, which is often what fuels the spiritual search. This very drive for security and safety is what causes so much misery and confusion.
ADYASHANTI

Distance Fuel Human Often Search Security Spiritual Thinking
We must become expressions of, not consumers of, realization.
ADYASHANTI

Become Consumer Expression Must Realization
Everybody is free to be as they are. Until the whole world is free to agree with you or disagree with you, until you have given the freedom to everyone to like you or not like you, to love you or hate you,
ADYASHANTI

Agree Disagree Everybody Freedom Given Like Until
The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.
ADYASHANTI

Emptiness Intricacies Love Most Spiritual Theologies Thing Truth
As if it were their job to be nice to you, you put yourself at odds with what is, and suffering will surely follow.
ADYASHANTI

Follow Job Od Suffer Surely Yourself
Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering.
ADYASHANTI

Anger Angry Confused Resist Sad Sadness
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

An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Adyashanti Quotes