No matter what spiritual path you’ve walked or what teachings you’ve followed, they must lead you back to no path and no teaching. A true teaching is like a blazing fire that consumes itself.
ADYASHANTIIt’s wearing spiritual clothing and spiritual concepts, but it is really no different than a drunk in the gutter who doesn’t want to feel the pain anymore.
More Adyashanti Quotes
-
-
A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.
ADYASHANTI -
Only something as insane as human beings would ever asked themselves if ‘I’m good.’ You don’t find oak trees having existential crisis. ‘I feel so rotten about myself. I don’t produce as much acorns as the one next to me.’
ADYASHANTI -
When we’re in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose.
ADYASHANTI -
When you discover yourself to be nothing but Freedom, you stop setting up conditions and requirements that need to be satisfied in order for you to be happy.
ADYASHANTI -
Most human beings have an imprinting that if they’re real, if they’re honest, somebody’s not gonna like it. And they won’t be able to control their environment if they tell the truth.
ADYASHANTI -
This simply strengthens the ego. In fact, such conclusions arise from the ego itself. Pay no attention to them. Don’t go to war with yourself; simply inquire into who you are.
ADYASHANTI -
Every time you claim, “I am this”, you just claimed another sense perception, thought, emotion, or feeling.
ADYASHANTI -
Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.
ADYASHANTI -
What am I, really? The beautiful thing…is nobody can tell us what we are. Nobody can really tell us. Not in a way that’s going to be satisfactory to us. Our true nature is self-authenticating. When we bump into our true nature,
ADYASHANTI -
To see things as you see them or to see things differently—until you have given the whole world its freedom—you’ll never have your freedom.
ADYASHANTI -
Now don’t think that awakening is the end. Awakening is the end of seeking, the end of the seeker, but it is the beginning of a life lived from your true nature.
ADYASHANTI -
The question of being is everything. Nothing could be more important or consequential-n othing where the stakes run so high.
ADYASHANTI -
You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.
ADYASHANTI -
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 -
In silence a question has great power, because in silence a question will always lead you deeper into your experience. If there is no grounding in silence, a spiritual question is going to lead you into your mind.
ADYASHANTI