Quotes from Adyashanti

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

There's something more to life than what we see on the surface.

When we're in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose.

There's a fierceness about life that calls for a fierceness to not anxiously solve it but to allow it to transform you.

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.

The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.

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.

How do I integrate spirituality into my everyday life? Throw out the concept of "spiritual life" and "everyday life." There is only life, undivided and whole.

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.

Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.

The biggest embrace of love you'll ever make is to embrace yourself completely. Then you'll realize you've just embraced the whole universe, and everything and everybody in it.

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.

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.

When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.

Love causes us to be deeply connected in an unspoken way. It happens when we're really available, really open.

To be free of fear is to be full of Love.

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.

As I often tell my students, the person you'll have the hardest time opening to and truly loving without reserve is yourself. Once you can do that, you can love the whole universe unconditionally.

Completion comes when we not just wake up from all form, from all identification, but when love causes us to re-embrace it all.

In the heart of a human being, emptiness becomes love. When we touch that Source, instantly the love is present. Literally, the divine becomes human and the human becomes divine.

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.

Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.

The truth is that you already are what you are seeking. You are looking for God with his eyes. I suggest you ask, "What's ultimately behind this set of eyes?" Turn around to see what is looking.

No one can give you the strength of character necessary... Only you can find that passion within that burns with an integrity that will not settle for anything less than the Truth.