Adyashanti
Steven Gray
1962-present • American
ZenNon-Dual / Advaita
American spiritual teacher with roots in Zen. Known for direct teachings on enlightenment and post-awakening integration.
Key Works
- The End of Your World
- Emptiness Dancing
- Talks
114
quotes in library
Quotes by Adyashanti
114 quotes“Be willing to know nothing.”
unknowingTrue Meditation
“Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier.”
awakeningThe End of Your World
“Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth.”
awakeningThe End of Your World
“Notice that everything you have ever lost or gained has been within yourself.”
interiorityFalling Into Grace
“True meditation has no direction or goal. It is simply pure wordless surrender.”
meditationTrue Meditation
“Don't seek the truth. Just cease to cherish opinions.”
non-clingingTrue Meditation
“Awakening is not a destination. It is a way of being.”
awakeningFalling Into Grace
“The deepest realization comes from the place where you are stuck.”
realizationFalling Into Grace
“Grace is the heart of everything.”
graceFalling Into Grace
“You can never get away from yourself, no matter how far you travel.”
selfThe End of Your World
“To love is to let go of fear.”
loveFalling Into Grace
“What you are looking for is what is looking.”
awarenessFalling Into Grace
“True silence is not the absence of sound. It is the presence of being.”
silenceTrue Meditation
“Suffering is the resistance to what is.”
sufferingFalling Into Grace
“Liberation is not what you think it is.”
liberationThe End of Your World
“Awareness is what you are.”
awarenessTrue Meditation
“To rest as awareness is the highest meditation.”
meditationTrue Meditation
“There is no self to liberate. Only the recognition of what was never bound.”
liberationThe End of Your World
“The spiritual path is not a path of achievement but of relinquishment.”
surrenderFalling into Grace
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