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. Adyashanti More Quotes by Adyashanti More Quotes From Adyashanti True sincerity reveals a powerful form of clarity and discernment that is necessary in order to perceive yourself honestly without flinching or being held captive by your conditioned mind's judgments and defensiveness. Adyashanti powerful mind order Whenever you aren’t manipulating your experience, you’re meditating. As soon as you meditate because you think you should, you’re controlling your experience again, and you’ve squeezed all the value out of your meditation. Adyashanti meditation should thinking 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. Adyashanti real suffering way 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. The truth lies beyond all forms of conceptual fundamentalism. What you are is the beyond—awake and present, here and now already. I am simply helping you to realize that. Adyashanti missing mind lying Freedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom. Adyashanti disappearance soul-searching soul 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. Adyashanti insecure spiritual moving If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life. Adyashanti splits realizing moments To find out that you are empty of emptiness is to die into an aware mystery, which is the source of all existence. Adyashanti empty emptiness mystery There is profound responsibility in being Love... more than the mind could imagine or hold up under. If most human beings truly realized the impact that they have on the whole, they'd be crushed by the realization of it. Adyashanti impact responsibility profound Thoughts are just moving through consciousness. They have no power. Nothing has reality until you reach it, grab it, and somehow impregnate it with the power of belief. Adyashanti belief reality moving Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself. Adyashanti yield creativity expression Nothingness is an absolute infinite potential, not an empty box. Adyashanti boxes empty infinite Take one step backward into the unknown. Adyashanti steps The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. When you start to see the light that you really are, the light waking up in you, the radiance, you realize it has no intention to change you. It has no intention to harmonize. It has no agenda. It just happens. The Truth is the only thing you'll ever run into that has no agenda. Everything else will have an agenda. Adyashanti light mind running When we really start to take a look at who we think we are, we become very grace prone. Adyashanti grace self thinking 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. Adyashanti velvet eye winning 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. Adyashanti real heart opportunity If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume your mind's clothing with more sooty knowledge. Adyashanti burning fire mind The perspective of Love doesn't leave anybody out. Until your vision and compassion is big enough to include those who oppose you, you are simply contributing to the continuation of destructiveness . The end of separation is the salvation for all. Adyashanti perspective vision compassion Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness Adyashanti enlightenment consciousness states
