Quotes from Adyashanti

Take the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you.

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.

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

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.

A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom.

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.

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

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

Space and stillness is the light that illuminates the beauty of our soul's being.

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.

Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.

True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.

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?

If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.

True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.

Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.

What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.

This moment in which you experience stillness is every moment. Don't let the mind seduce you into the past or future. Stay in the moment, and dare to consider that you can be free now.

The goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.