Quotes from Adyashanti

Once again, eternity is peering through the latticework of time and space, and this sense of eternal stillness and deep freedom is what the iconic image of the seated Buddha conveys. What this image doesn't convey is a sense of humanity, of a real flesh-and-blood human being. But in the Jesus story, it's as if the still point that the image of the Buddha evokes within us becomes

The Gospel of Thomas presents the Kingdom of Heaven as something that exists right here and right now. In fact, it's all about what's right here and right now. In it, we find Jesus saying, "The Kingdom of the Father is spread out upon the earth, and men do not see it.

Forgive them, for they know not what they do.

But in the Gospel of Thomas, the whole point of Jesus' teaching is to discover your true identity, to realize who and what you really and truly are here and now.

The very root of sin, to use Jesus' language, is something that can be forgiven. It's forgivable because it's an unconscious act, a result of being spiritually asleep. We can't be blamed for being unconscious, for acting out our unconsciousness, even for feeling the effects of our unconsciousness within our psychology.

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.

Love moves without an agenda. It just moves because that is its nature to move.

You must choose between your attachments and happiness.

Has it ever occurred to you that you are seeking God with His eyes?

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.

The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?

True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.

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

Life itself is nothing but relationship.

True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.

The silence inside of you is the sound of your knowledge collapsing. Remember, it is you who said, 'I want to be free.'

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.

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

Gratitude is the appreciation of what is, of life, of existence, of anybody and anything, for just the way it is.

Life sustains itself. Let go of the ego and life takes care of itself through you.

The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.

The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.

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.

Fear is very often a part of the spiritual path. When people sit down and meditate it's not at all uncommon for fear to arise at some point.