Adyashanti Quotes About Consciousness

Quotes about: Consciousness

• This one question-'What do I know for certain?'-is tremendously powerful. When you look deeply into this question, it actually destroys your world. It destroys your whole sense of self, and it's meant to. You come to see that everything you think you know about yourself, everything you think you know about the world, is based on assumptions, beliefs, and opinions-things that you believe because you were taught or told they were true. Until we start to see these false perceptions for what they really are, consciousness will be imprisoned within the dream state.

  Adyashanti

  Inspiring, Dream, Powerful

  Adyashanti (2010). “The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment”, p.16, Sounds True

• The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but it does change.

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  Light, Mind, Needs

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing”, p.47, ReadHowYouWant.com

• The body is a sensing instrument of consciousness. Without the body and mind,
  the trees could not see themselves. Usually we think that we are looking at a tree, but the tree is looking at itself through us. Without this instrument, the tree does not get to see itself. We are sensing instruments of the Divine.

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  Thinking, Tree, Mind

• If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.

  Adyashanti

  Attachment, Want, Consciousness

• Enlightenment is the natural state of consciousness, the innocent state of consciousness, that state which is uncontaminated by the movement of thought, uncontaminated by control or manipulation of mind.

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  Mind, Enlightenment, Movement

  Adyashanti (2012). “True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness”, p.15, Sounds True

• There is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.

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  Consciousness, Individual, Conscious

• The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. When you start to see the light that you really are, the light waking up in you, the radiance, you realize it has no intention to change you. It has no intention to harmonize. It has no agenda. It just happens. The Truth is the only thing you'll ever run into that has no agenda. Everything else will have an agenda.

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  Running, Light, Mind

• Thoughts are just moving through consciousness. They have no power. Nothing has reality until you reach it, grab it, and somehow impregnate it with the power of belief.

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  Moving, Reality, Belief

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.70, ReadHowYouWant.com

• We think there’s someplace other than here to get to—that’s what drives the whole pursuit. Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being, pure consciousness. This is actually the very substance of your own self and being.

  Adyashanti

  Truth, Thinking, Self

• Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness

  Adyashanti

  Enlightenment, Consciousness, States

• 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

  Teaching, Meditation, Realization

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