Adyashanti

Fear is very often a part of the spiritual path. When people sit down and meditate it's not at all uncommon for fear to arise at some point.

Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.

Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it's about letting go of control.

The mind may accept or deny that you are awareness, but either way it can't really understand. It cannot comprehend. Thought cannot comprehend what is beyond thought.

The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?

When we really start to take a look at who we think we are, we become very grace prone.

The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.

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.

The Truth is the only thing you'll ever run into that has no agenda.

The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.