Adyashanti Quotes

When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable. It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we are not relating from the truth. It’s a beautiful pointer. It never fails.

To find out that you are empty of emptiness is to die into an aware mystery, which is the source of all existence.

My teacher used to say ‘all love is bittersweet’. All things experienced fully, reveal their opposite.

Imagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.

We can’t have an idea of what life should look like, about how spirit should be manifesting as our very life, because all of those ideas would just be products of the past – something we learned, imagined, or desired.

If you filter my words through any tradition or ‘-ism’, you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is not static; it is alive. It cannot be put into concepts and be understood by the mind.

Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier.

To pause for just a moment and realize that maybe you aren’t who you imagine yourself to be.

The body is a sensing instrument of consciousness. Without the body and mind, the trees could not see themselves.

There is, quite literally, nothing to understand.