Adyashanti
Take one step backward into the unknown.Collection: Steps
Enlightenment is a destructive process.Collection: Enlightenment
We must become expressions of, not consumers of, realization.Collection: Expression
Completion comes when we not just wake up from all form, from all identification, but when love causes us to re-embrace it all.Collection: Causes
Fear is very often a part of the spiritual path. When people sit down and meditate it's not at all uncommon for fear to arise at some point.Collection: Spiritual
In True Meditation, we're in the body as a means to transcend it. It is paradoxical that the greatest doorway to the transcendence of form is through form itself.Collection: Yoga
What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.Collection: Appreciation
Our yearning for truth actually comes from truth.Collection: Awakening
If you have any image of what the Truth is, slay it immediately because that's not it.Collection: Truth Is
Inherent in the impulse to be free, is insecurity. The impulse to be free comes from outside of the mind, and because of this, it makes the mind feel very insecure. Most spiritual seekers move away from this insecurity by seeking and striving for a distant spiritual goal. That's how they avoid feeling insecure.Collection: Spiritual
Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.Collection: Creativity
Retreat is a response to the call of the heart-that call which beckons us toward reality, to the truth of our being, to that which is truly sane, really real and liberating ... When a group of people come together as a response to that kind of inward call, it creates a very powerful environment, where truth is held in the highest esteem and the reality of our being responds to that deepest intention.Collection: Powerful
As soon as the mind pulls out an agenda and decides what needs to change, that's unreality. Life doesn't need to decide who's right and who's wrong. Life doesn't need to know the "right" way to go because it's going there anyway.Collection: Life
The beautiful thing about the truth of being is that it's so unimaginably immediate.Collection: Beautiful
Serving the Truth becomes our life instead of just an isolated event. It takes the abstractness out of spirituality. That's the opportunity of real spirituality: to be in service to the silence of the heart.Collection: Real
Go ahead, climb up onto the velvet top of the highest stakes table. Place yourself as the bet. Look God in the eyes and finally, for once in your life, lose.Collection: Eye
There is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.Collection: Consciousness
When you inquire 'Who am I?' if you are honest, you'll notice that it takes you right back to silence instantly. The brain doesn't have an answer, so all of a sudden there is silence.Collection: Silence
At any moment, we are either giving humanity the gift of our clarity or our confusion. And that clarity or confusion is affecting the humanity around us, the world around us. It is manifesting. It is taking form.Collection: Giving
The mind may accept or deny that you are awareness, but either way it can’t really understand. It cannot comprehend. Thought cannot comprehend what is beyond thought.Collection: Mind
There's a great space in which this moment takes place. There's a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.Collection: Space
Space and stillness is the light that illuminates the beauty of our soul's being.Collection: Light
No matter what identity we cling to, it takes great courage to step out of the old masks we wear and the old scripts that we live by, and open ourselves to the mysterious inner core of our being.Collection: Identity
If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.Collection: Attachment
The truth is that you already are what you are seeking. You are looking for God with his eyes. I suggest you ask, "What's ultimately behind this set of eyes?" Turn around to see what is looking.Collection: Eye
Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.Collection: Love Is
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.Collection: Running
As you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind's compulsive control, contractions, and identifications. Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.Collection: Knowing
What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make through personal investigation.Collection: Spiritual
The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?Collection: Spiritual
We must leave the entire collection of conditioned thought behind and let ourselves be led by the inner thread of silence into the unknown, beyond where all paths end, to that place where we go innocently or not at all, not once but continually.Collection: Silence
Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.Collection: Compassion
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.Collection: Letting Go
This world is not my concern; it is myself.Collection: World
You are the doorway to the infinite.Collection: Doorways
The realization of Truth and Reality can never be created by the mind ... it always comes as a gift of grace. Inquiry clears away misperceptions and illusions, making one available to the movements of grace.Collection: Reality