Adyashanti

"The biggest thing that keeps us from waking up is the belief that we are already awake."

"True freedom is not the absence of structure, but the absence of internal resistance to what is."

"Enlightenment is not an experience to be achieved, but an illusion to be released."

"The spiritual path is simply the journey of living our lives as consciously as possible."

"What you're aware of, you're free from. What you're unaware of, you're enslaved by."

"The mind wants to be free, but it doesn't know how."

"Suffering is optional. Pain is mandatory, but suffering is a choice."

"You cannot get from where you are to where you want to go by thinking about where you are."

"The feeling of 'I' that we have is not as solid as we think it is."

"Most of us live a very narrow spiritual life within a very narrow bandwidth of ourselves."

"Freedom is not something you achieve. It's something you recognize."

"The biggest illusion is that you have something to become."

"There's nothing that can be done to cause awakening. It's not a doing, it's a recognition."

"Love is the absence of judgment."

"When you're truly awake, you find that life is very simple."

"The mind will always try to turn spirituality into another project."

"Happiness comes from a relaxation into what is."

"What you resist persists. What you look at disappears."

"The truth is so simple that the mind rejects it."

"You are already what you're seeking."

"Enlightenment has nothing to do with accumulation."

"The world is not broken. Your image of the world is broken."

"Real love asks nothing in return."

"Peace is not a state to achieve. It's your natural state."

"The mind creates the sense of separation."

"You cannot think your way to enlightenment."

"What if the present moment is exactly what you need?"

"Fear is the last obstacle before freedom."

"Life is not happening to you. Life is what you are."

"The spiritual path is an unraveling, not a becoming."