Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness Adyashanti More Quotes by Adyashanti More Quotes From Adyashanti My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better. Adyashanti awake awakening dream Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully. Adyashanti love-is life knowledge Truth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is discovered minute to minute or not at all. Adyashanti finality truth-is minutes If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen. Adyashanti consciousness attachment want You must choose between your attachments and happiness. Adyashanti positive-thinking attachment thinking It is good to remember that the goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians. In the same vein, my teachings are not meant to acquire followers or imitators, but to awaken beings to eternal truth and thus to awakened life and living. Adyashanti buddhist teaching christian You are the doorway to the infinite. Adyashanti infinite doorways When we're in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose. Adyashanti moments purpose life-is Life itself is nothing but relationship. Adyashanti inspirational-life There is, quite literally, nothing to understand. Adyashanti Take the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you. Adyashanti penetrate armor arrows The Way of Liberation is not a belief system; it is something to be put into practice. Adyashanti belief practice way The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness. Adyashanti truth spiritual love In liberation, you stand alone. You stand alone because you need no supports of any kind. You need no supports because you have realized that the very notion of a separate you no longer exists, that there is nothing to support, that the whole ego experience was a flimsy illusion. So you stand alone but are never, never lonely because everywhere you look, all you see is That, and you are That. Adyashanti support ego lonely Reality is always true to itself. When you're in harmony with it, you experience bliss. As soon as you are not in harmony with it, you experience pain. This is the law of the universe; it is the way things are. Nobody gets out of this law. Adyashanti stress pain reality The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda. Adyashanti agendas running reality We realize--often quite suddenly--that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who we are. It doesn't define us, it has no center. Adyashanti who-we-are self ideas Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth. Adyashanti frantic compassion life-is It is one thing to touch a flame and know it is hot, but quite another to jump into that flame and be consumed by it. Adyashanti burning flames hot 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. Adyashanti flames destruction love-is
