Adyashanti Quotes

You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.

Deep down we all suspect that something is very wrong with the way we perceive life but we try very, very hard not to notice it. And the way we remain blind to our frightful condition is through an obsessive and pathological denial of being.

What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.

Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true. It is the way Life suggests that you are not in harmony with what is.

There’s something more to life than what we see on the surface.

We must become expressions of, not consumers of, realization.

It authenticates itself. Something inside us knows. This…is what has been sought for, longed for, looked for. This is it. Usually, it’s not what we expected.

We think there’s someplace other than here to get to—that’s what drives the whole pursuit.

Embrace suffering, and you transform your relationship with what causes you to suffer, as well as your relationship with suffering itself.

True Meditation is the space in which everything gets revealed, everything gets seen, everything gets experienced. And as such, it lets go of itself. We don’t even let go. It lets go of itself.