"The main purpose of the illusion of me is to keep you at all costs from realizing your own nothingness."

"The unknown, our own true nature, has the capacity to wake itself up when you start to fall in love with letting go o…"

"It is the basics that are most important. Never leave this foundation. From this, an incredible depth is to be found …"

"Perhaps the most important element of any spiritual teaching is what we bring to it, because this dictates what the t…"

"Sy Safransky: Didn’t taking the name “Adyashanti” reinforce a certain sense that you are an enlightened holy man? Ady…"

"True love is not all bliss. As my teacher said, true love is bittersweet, like dark chocolate. It almost hurts a litt…"

"Luc Saunders: What do you think happens to individual consciousness after the death of a body? Adyashanti: The questi…"

"Over time I found that one of the most important things in any spiritual teaching for anybody is to have a really bas…"

"Suffering is caused by identification with egoic consciousness. When we identify with egoic consciousness, we go unco…"

"I often tell people to make no mistake about it—enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with bec…"