67 Adyashanti Quotes (On Fear, Love, Enlightenment)

By Maxime Lagacé

Maxime is the founder of WisdomQuotes. He has been collecting quotes since 2004. His goal? To help you develop a calm and peaceful mind. Learn more about him on his about page.

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Here are 67 of the best Adyashanti quotes I’ve collected over the years.

And you will not be disappointed.

You’ll learn:

How to embrace suffering
The importance of stillness
The path to self-realization

But who is Adyashanti (Born Stephen Gray in 1962)?

He is the author of several books, including The End Of Your World
He is a speaker and gives retreats
He is a spiritual teacher

He even appeared on Oprah in 2014.

I guarantee you’ll love his quotes on fear, love, spirituality, and more.

Enjoy!

Top 10 Adyashanti Quotes

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

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

Enlightenment is being able to simultaneously experience unity and individuality without experiencing any conflict. Adyashanti

The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda. Adyashanti

True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience. Adyashanti

The experience of oneness — really feeling it, really realizing it — is the absence of fear. Adyashanti

Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control. Adyashanti

When we believe what we think, when we take our thinking to be reality, we will suffer. Adyashanti

It couldn’t be simpler. Sit down; let everything be as it already is. Adyashanti

Adyashanti Quotes Quotes About Fear, Suffering

To be free of fear is to be full of love. Adyashanti

You must choose between your attachments and happiness. Adyashanti

The main force of separation is fear … Fear is an incredible driving force for humanity. Adyashanti

A lot of people experience that separateness, and they find that it’s inherently unsatisfactory — not only for oneself, but very unsatisfactory and unhealthy for the world. Adyashanti

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. Adyashanti

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

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

Instead of being a destroyer of the world, now we’re a savior of the world. But, if we’re a savior of the world that’s motivated by fear then we’re actually in the same consciousness. That’s just heads and tails on a coin. Adyashanti

Our own divided state of consciousness is what’s destroying everything. Adyashanti

Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death. Adyashanti

Adyashanti Quotes About Love, Letting Go

Love is indiscriminate. Love loves what is. Everything. Nothing is left out. Adyashanti

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. Adyashanti

We’re very unique, and we’re very different, and there’s a beautiful, individualized manifestation of the one — but the whole substance of that is all one. Adyashanti

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. Adyashanti

The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes. Things line up in ways you could never imagine. Adyashanti

When you let go of the egoic self what you’re getting in exchange is the whole universe. Adyashanti

Love always arises from that sense of unity of what we really truly actually are — from the experience of unity rather than the idea of unity. Adyashanti

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

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

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

Related

Adyashanti Quotes About Spirituality, Silence

A lot of spirituality is often trying to dismantle our attachment to that psychological self. Adyashanti

Any spirituality that’s separated from this existence is a fantasy. Adyashanti

Moving beyond the separate self is a death of an identity. Adyashanti

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

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

I see all spiritual teachings as strategies for awakening. Otherwise, we think that they are statements of truth or that the teaching itself contains the reality — which it really can’t, it’s all a pointer. Adyashanti

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

When you inquire ‘Who am I?’ if you are honest, you’ll notice that it takes you right back to silence instantly. The brain doesn’t have an answer, so all of a sudden there is silence. Adyashanti

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. Adyashanti

Even though spirituality is so often associated with escaping human suffering, that’s not what it’s really about at all — it’s a byproduct of being conscious that you don’t suffer as much. Adyashanti

Stop all doing and be still. Let the fire of stillness burn everything and reveal That which is Openness. Adyashanti

A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself. Adyashanti

Adyashanti Quotes About Enlightenment, Awakening

Enlightenment is nothing more than the complete absence of resistance to what is. End of story. Adyashanti

One of life’s movements is to become self-aware — to know itself, to be aware of itself. Adyashanti

To have a shift in our identity is so important because it shifts everything … When your identity shifts, you realize everything shifts along with it—your entire worldview shifts, your thought and view on everything shifts. Adyashanti

Awakening is a fundamental shift in the way we perceive and feel about ourself — what and who we take ourselves to be. Adyashanti

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

Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn’t exist? Adyashanti

The irony is we have to come to true existence through the doorway of our own separate nonexistence. Adyashanti

You think that enlightenment is something other than what is happening right now. This is your primary mistake. Adyashanti

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. Adyashanti

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. Adyashanti

It takes whatever time it takes. Our lives are tailor-made for our own awakening. Adyashanti

If there’s a defining characteristic, the unknowability is the defining characteristic. Adyashanti

My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better. Adyashanti

More Quotes By Adyashanti

Whatever you are inside, you receive a thousandfold on the outside. Adyashanti

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

When we make a purchase and/or get what we want, we are temporarily happy and fulfilled. But the reason for happiness is not because we got what we wanted, but because for a brief period of time, we stopped wanting, and thus we experience peace and happiness. Adyashanti

Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully. Adyashanti

The process of finding the truth may not be a process by which we feel increasingly better and better. It may be a process by which we look at things honestly, sincerely, truthfully, and that may or may not be an easy thing to do. Adyashanti

The Truth I point to is not confined within any religious point of view, belief system, or doctrine, but is open to all and found within all. Adyashanti

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

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

There is, quite literally, nothing to understand. Adyashanti

You are the doorway to the infinite. Adyashanti

Key Takeaways

Be free. Stop desiring too many things. Stop expecting things to be a certain way. Just live your life, centered on what’s happening right now. “be free from the desire to be free from anything”
Let go. When you resist, you create suffering. So stop clinging to ideas and things. Stop being attached to people and material. Stop trying to control everything. Let things be. “true meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience”
Go beyond your limits. And go beyond your conditioned mind. Remember: there are no external limits. Only the ones you create. “all limitations are self-imposed and chosen out of fear”
Dissolve your ego. Stop identifying with your thoughts and your emotions. Observe them. This way, your ego will lose its grip. “when you let go of the egoic self what you’re getting in exchange is the whole universe”
Accept. There are many things you must accept (if you want a better life):
- What is
- Your self
- The impermanence of things
- “when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears”