What you run away from owns you. You are the dog on a leash. The most you can do is to tug against the leash.
ADYASHANTISpirituality does not require that you work hard toward achieving a result in the future as much as it requires you to be fully present.
More Adyashanti Quotes
-
-
Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.
ADYASHANTI -
Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.
ADYASHANTI -
Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.
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 -
With this love you can feel the walls of opposition come down naturally in the acknowledgement of deep connection. Not only do the walls of opposition fall, but love is felt for every human being and for life itself.
ADYASHANTI -
You think that enlightenment is something other than what is happening right now. This is your primary mistake.
ADYASHANTI -
Many Sages have said, “Your world is a dream. You’re living in an illusion.” They’re referring to this world of the mind and the way we believe our thoughts about reality.
ADYASHANTI -
Whatever you can become will ultimately be destroyed. Only what you already are can’t be taken away.
ADYASHANTI -
The truth is you can’t try to let go. Trying is the opposite of letting go. To let go is to relinquish trying. To let go is much more like to let be.
ADYASHANTI -
Awareness isn’t something we own; awareness isn’t something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.
ADYASHANTI -
It is in the absolute surrender of all conditions and requirements that Liberation is discovered to be who and what you are. Then the love and wisdom that flows out of you has a liberating effect on others.
ADYASHANTI -
The world’s problems are, by and large, human problems-the unavoidable consequence of egoic sleepwalking. If we care to look, all the signs are present to suggest that we are not only sleepwalking, but at times borderline insane as well.
ADYASHANTI -
A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom.
ADYASHANTI -
The Truth doesn’t answer anything. The Truth IS everything!
ADYASHANTI -
Our own intuition of what we’re called to is reality speaking to us individually and perfectly. We have to listen to how the Infinite talks to us and leads us. Reality, Life the Infinite, God, has a way of leading us in just the perfect way, if we will only just listen to it.
ADYASHANTI