Adyashanti Quotes

Adyashanti is a spiritual teacher who is known for his teachings on non-dual awakening and meditation. His teachings emphasize the direct experience of one’s true nature and the transformation that can occur through the recognition of this nature. Read and Understand the following Adyashanti quotes.

1. The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears.

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2. What the universe will manifest when you are in alignment with it is a lot more interesting than what you try to manifest.

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3. Embrace suffering, and you transform your relationship with what causes you to suffer, as well as your relationship with suffering itself.

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4. Thoughts in your head are really no different than the sound of a bird outside. It is just that you decide that they are more or less relevant.

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5. Now don’t think that awakening is the end. Awakening is the end of seeking, the end of the seeker, but it is the beginning of a life lived from your true nature.

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6. An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.

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7. There is, quite literally, nothing to understand.

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8. The door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of that uncertainty and all wisdom will be yours.

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9. 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.

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10. When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable. It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we are not relating from the truth. It’s a beautiful pointer. It never fails.

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11. The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.

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12. The truth is you can’t try to let go. Trying is the opposite of letting go. To let go is to relinquish trying. To let go is much more like to let be.

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13. 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.

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14. The unknown, our own true nature, has the capacity to wake itself up when you start to fall in love with letting go of all the mental structures you hold onto. Contemplate this: there is no such thing as a true belief.

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15. The substance of everything is the divine. This is not something you believe, it’s something you realize.

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16. Again, the only way to know that we’ve seen into the true nature of something is that the story we’re telling ourselves releases.

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17. The point is for all of us to come back to that primordial state of being, innocence, intelligence, and love, which we can know by being it, but we can’t know it by thinking about it.

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18. Do not seek after what you yearn for: seek the source of the yearning itself.

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19. If we are to find heaven here on earth, we must be willing to open ourselves to the unknown, far beyond where most people will allow themselves to go.

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20. 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.

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21. The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.

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22. Refuse to disconnect from love and every relationship will be totally transformed; even the relationship with yourself.

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23. Whatever you want, be it. If you want connection, it’s because you are connection. Be what you want, and then it happens all around you. If you want love, be it. You’ll have more love than you know what to do with. Whatever you are inside, you receive a thousandfold on the outside.

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24. The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.

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25. 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.

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26. Your life, all of your life, is your path to awakening. By resisting or not dealing with its challenges, you stay asleep to Reality. Pay attention to what life is trying to reveal to you. Say yes to its fierce, ruthless, and loving grace.

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27. Let go of all ideas and images in your mind, they come and go and aren’t even generated by you. So why pay so much attention to your imagination when reality is for the realizing right now?

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28. Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretense. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.

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29. Imagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.

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30. Many Sages have said, “Your world is a dream. You’re living in an illusion.” They’re referring to this world of the mind and the way we believe our thoughts about reality. When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are.

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