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 More Quotes by Adyashanti More Quotes From Adyashanti Love moves without an agenda. It just moves because that is its nature to move. Adyashanti agendas love moving 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. Adyashanti what-matters spiritual discovery When you get out of the driver's seat, you find that life can drive itself, that actually life has always been driving itself. When you get out of the driver's seat, it can drive itself so much easier-it can flow in ways you never imagined. Life becomes almost magical. The illusion of the “me” is no longer in the way. Life begins to flow, and you never know where it will take you. Adyashanti driving flow way 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. Adyashanti mind may way The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I? Adyashanti intimate self spiritual One Zen master said, The whole universe is my true personality. This is a very wonderful saying... If you want to see what you truly are, open the window, and everything you see is in fact the expression of your inner reality. Can you embrace all of it? Adyashanti personality expression reality 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 realizing self want To be here, all you have to do is let go of who you think you are. That's all! And then you realize, "I'm here." Here is where thoughts aren't believed. Every time you come here, you are nothing. Radiantly nothing. Absolutely and eternally zero. Emptiness that is awake. Emptiness that is full. Emptiness that is everything. Adyashanti zero letting-go thinking 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. Adyashanti powerful real heart 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. Adyashanti mind life needs Awakening to the truth is a deep realization of what you are as an experience. What is it that is listening? What is it that is feeling? Feel it. Sense it. Welcome it. Adyashanti awakening listening feelings Whatever you can become will ultimately be destroyed. Only what you already are can't be taken away. Adyashanti destroyed taken Love causes us to be deeply connected in an unspoken way. It happens when we're really available, really open. Adyashanti causes connected way The world's problems are, by and large, human problems-the unavoidable consequence of egoic sleepwalking. If we care to look, all the signs are present to suggest that we are not only sleepwalking, but at times borderline insane as well. Adyashanti insane looks world 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. Adyashanti leashes dog running When we really start to take a look at who we think we are... we start to see that while we may have various thoughts, beliefs, and identities, they do not individually or collectively tell us who we are. [And yet] it is astounding how completely we humans define ourselves by the content of our minds, feelings, and history. Adyashanti mind feelings thinking Refuse to disconnect from love and every relationship will be totally transformed; even the relationship with yourself. Adyashanti transformed refuse To be free of fear is to be full of Love. Adyashanti love As you peel it back, in the heart of nothing, that is love. You are what you are seeking. Life is a set up so that each of us can actually see in ourselves the truth for ourselves. What gets taken away are all the exterior means we thought we wanted love to come to us. You have the choice to notice the perfect set up to see love is exactly what you are. Adyashanti taken love-you heart The silence inside of you is the sound of your knowledge collapsing. Remember, it is you who said, 'I want to be free.' Adyashanti silence sound want
