All we really want in the end is to be connected once again with the Truth of our being, to realize what it is that wears this mask of self. Adyashanti More Quotes by Adyashanti More Quotes From Adyashanti You can't lose what you serve. That's the secret. What you serve, you can't lose. What you don't serve and what you try to hold onto, you can't hold onto. It's always slipping out of your fingers. Adyashanti slippingsecrettrying When you let go of the egoic self what you're getting in exchange is the whole universe. Adyashanti wholeselfletting-go The joke of it all is that you are looking from your true nature right now without knowing it. If you would stop being fascinated with the contents of your mind, you would experience what I am saying. Feel your way into what I am saying rather than thinking about it. Only a self-concept looks and longs for God. Drop your self-concept and there is only God meeting God. Enlightenment is the restoration of cosmic humor. Adyashanti knowingselfthinking A spiritual teaching is a finger pointing toward Reality; it is not Reality itself. To be in a true and mature relationship with a spiritual teaching requires you to apply it, not simply believe in it. Adyashanti teachingspiritualbelieve Be a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don't expect it to be easy or even noticed. Adyashanti goodnesseasyheart If we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn't that what silence is? It's a listening, a deep wordless listening. Adyashanti silencelisteninglooks A meditative mind is at ease because it's not trying to acquire anything. Adyashanti mindeasetrying 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. Adyashanti gracemindreality As long as you perceive that anyone is holding you back, you have not taken full responsibility for your own liberation. Liberation means that you stand free of making demands on others and life to make you happy. 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. 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 takenresponsibilitymean When the eternal and the human meet, that's where love is born -- not through escaping our humanity or trying to disappear into transcendence, but through finding that place where they come into union. Adyashanti escapinghumanitylove-is The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare. Adyashanti barriersawakeningbelief 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. Adyashanti returnknowingmind 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 rotteninsanetree 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. Once again, we find ourselves back in the unknown - not in the idea of the unknown, but in the lived reality of it. It's the mind humbled, on its knees, with bare feet and free of the known. Adyashanti realitypastideas It is easy to imagine that the Buddha, the awakened one, is something or somewhere other than here or that awakening to reality will happen sometime other than now. But as long as we continue to think in terms of time we will deceive ourselves. The you who is chasing enlightenment will never become enlightened. Adyashanti timerealitythinking True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience. Adyashanti experiencemeditationletting-go Our illusions-the beliefs we hold on to-are the very doorways to our freedom. We simply have to enter through them without grasping or pushing away. We must not believe them, but we must not run away from them either. We need to see each moment of apparent bondage as an invitation to freedom. Then it becomes an act of love, an act of compassion, to stop running away. Adyashanti compassionrunningbelieve Has it ever occurred to you that you are seeking God with His eyes? Adyashanti seeking-godhis-eyeseye This awake silence is available to anyone in this moment. Adyashanti silencemindlooks This world is not my concern; it is myself. Adyashanti concernthis-worldworld
