Adyashanti Meditation Quotes & Sayings

Humanity could share a common insanity and be immersed in a common illusion while living in a common chaos. — Isaac Asimov

Silence and stillness are not states and therefore cannot be produced or created. Silence is the non-state in which all states arise and subside. Silence, stillness and awareness are not states and can never be perceived in their totality as objects. Silence is itself the eternal witness without form or attributes. As you rest more profoundly as the witness, all objects take on their natural functionality, and awareness becomes free of the mind's compulsive contractions and identifications. It returns to its natural non-state of Presence. — Adyashanti

Women of vanquished races are usually very prone to wed with the men who have slaughtered their kindred in battle. — Arthur Desmond

LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure. — Ambrose Bierce

He's a rather brilliant defensive tactician," Grimm said. "I agree," Bayard said. "The problem is that he's an inept defensive strategist. — Jim Butcher

Silence is a beautiful fresh water tank to raise the trout of thought. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it's about letting go of control. This is meditation. Anything else is actually a form of concentration. Meditation and concentration are two different things. Concentration is a discipline; concentration is a way in which we are actually directing or guiding or controlling our experience. Meditation is letting go of control, letting go of guiding our experience in any way whatsoever. The foundation of True Meditation is that we are letting go of control. — Adyashanti

Meditation is not something restricted to times of formal seated meditation; it is most fundamentally an attitude of being-a resting in and as being. Once you get the feel of it, you will be able to tune into it more and more often during your daily life. Eventually, in the state of liberation, meditation will simply become your natural condition. — Adyashanti

In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself. Primordial awareness is the source in which all objects arise and subside. As you gently relax into awareness, into listening, the mind's compulsive contraction around objects will fade. Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing. — Adyashanti

I do not share the belief in indefinite progress for society as a whole; I believe in man's improvement in himself. — Honore De Balzac

Meditation is neither a means to an end nor something to perfect. Meditation done correctly is an expression of Reality, not a path to it. Meditation done incorrectly is a perfect mirror of how you are resisting the present moment, judging it, or attaching to it. — Adyashanti

True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience. — Adyashanti

True Meditation is the space in which everything gets revealed, everything gets seen, everything gets experienced. And as such, it lets go of itself. We don't even let go. It lets go of itself. — Adyashanti

I helped lift a sixty-five-year-old woman out of the bloody machine that had just torn four fingers off her hand, and I still hear her cries - "Jesus and Mary, I won't be able to work again!"
The factory. Long live the factory! Today, even as new factories are being built, the civilization that made the factory into a cathedral is dying. And somewhere, right now, other young men and women are driving through the night into the heart of the emergent Third Wave civilization. Our task from here on will be to join, as it were, their quest for tomorrow. — Alvin Toffler

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

379True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer. All methods aiming at achieving a certain state of mind are limited, impermanent, and conditioned. Fascination with states lead only to bondage and dependency. True meditation is abidance as primordial awareness. — Adyashanti

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? — Adyashanti

Nothing is more favorable to the rise of politeness and learning, than a number of neighboring and independent states, connected together by commerce and policy. — David Hume

Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death. — Adyashanti

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

The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back. — Dorothy Parker

In True Meditation, we're in the body as a means to transcend it. It is paradoxical that the greatest doorway to the transcendence of form is through form itself. — Adyashanti

I reached out a hand, and touched her. Her body was hard, and slim, and lithe, and her breasts felt like breasts that Gauguin might have painted. Her mouth, in the darkness, was soft and warm against mine.
People come into your life for a reason. — Neil Gaiman

The ball of rumor and criticism, once it starts rolling, is difficult to stop. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Whenever you aren't manipulating your experience, you're meditating. As soon as you meditate because you think you should, you're controlling your experience again, and you've squeezed all the value out of your meditation. — Adyashanti

The single best and easiest thing you can do for your health is to recalibrate your taste buds and learn to enjoy pure clean water. — Rick Warren

Meditation is a teaching which offers you the possibility of breaking free of this egoic state of consciousness and coming into a whole new realization of who and what you truly are. And all this starts with the willingness to question. To pause for just a moment and realize that maybe you aren't who you imagine yourself to be. — Adyashanti

Meditation is like an oven that forces the truth out. — Adyashanti

I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space. — Michael Faraday

I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up. — Shane Carruth