When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love. Adyashanti More Quotes by Adyashanti More Quotes From Adyashanti You will only lose when you resist reality; you will only struggle when you disagree with what is. Adyashanti loses struggle reality Life sustains itself. Let go of the ego and life takes care of itself through you. Adyashanti ego letting-go life The question of being is everything. Nothing could be more important or consequential-n othing where the stakes run so high. To remain unconscious of being is to remain asleep to our own reality and therefore asleep to reality at large. The choice is simple: awaken to being or sleep an endless sleep. Adyashanti simple sleep running We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world. Adyashanti sacred community world Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being. Adyashanti pursuit pure awareness The door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of that uncertainty and all wisdom will be yours. Adyashanti knowing spiritual doors At first it seems as if begoing follows becoming. But look even closer and you will see that there are only flashes of lightning illuminating the empty sky. Adyashanti becoming journey sky What am I, really? The beautiful thing...is nobody can tell us what we are. Nobody can really tell us. Not in a way that's going to be satisfactory to us. Our true nature is self-authenticating. When we bump into our true nature, it authenticates itself. Something inside us knows. This...is what has been sought for, longed for, looked for. This is it. Usually, it's not what we expected. Adyashanti self beautiful beauty If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once. Adyashanti chosen leap self A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom. Adyashanti mind heart integrity When someone says, 'I love you,' he is telling you about himself, not you. When someone says, 'I hate you,' she is telling you about herself, not you. World views are self views-literally. Adyashanti hate self love What would happen if you were to allow everything to be exactly as it is? If you gave up the need for control, and instead embraced the whole of your experience in each moment that arose? Adyashanti moments meditation needs Space and stillness is the light that illuminates the beauty of our soul's being. Adyashanti space light soul Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive. Adyashanti resistance helping needs Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being. Adyashanti enlightenment ends natural Have you noticed, with whatever quality of love you have experienced, that when true love arises, it opens up both your mind and emotions? It's an openness to whatever is happening. Adyashanti quality mind love When you begin to become conscious, more aware, when your eyes begin to open, the first thing you see is how deluded you are and how much you're holding onto that which makes you suffer. This is, in many ways, the most important step: Are you willing to be aware? Adyashanti important eye suffering Doubt is always accompanied by a pervasive cynicism that unconsciously puts a negative spin on whatever it touches. Adyashanti cynicism doubt negative Self-inquiry is a spiritually induced form of wintertime. It's not about looking for a right answer so much as stripping away and letting you see what is not necessary, what you can do without, what you are without your leaves. Adyashanti inquiry self answers The mind wants to land, to fixate, to hold a concept, but the only way you can be really free is by not fixating. That's part of true maturity, and it's one of the hardest things for spiritual people who have had true and powerful revelations to go through - to accept the degree of surrender needed to literally let go of all experience and all self-reference. Even in great revelations, there is almost always something that wants to claim, "I am this." Every time you claim, "I am this", you just claimed another sense perception, thought, emotion, or feeling. Adyashanti powerful spiritual letting-go
