Top 27 Quotes & Sayings by Adi Da

Truth is that which, when fully realized, sets you free from all bondage and all seeking.

Anybody who is not pulling his weight is probably pushing his luck.

Relax. Nothing is under control.

Love does not fail for you when you are rejected, betrayed or apparently not Loved. Love fails for you when you reject, betray and do not love. Therefore .. Love.

The exclusion of true esoteric religion has been the business of the State since ancient times. At first this was done via the establishment of the popular idealism of exoteric religious institutions in league with the State. But in modern times the same process is done by the strategic exclusion of conventional religious cultism, mystical idealism, and higher evolutionary Wisdom from the mechanisms of popular culture.

Death is utterly acceptable to consciousness and life.

Patience often gets the credit that belongs to fatigue.

A bargain is something you don't need at a price you can't resist.

Remembering the Mystery is a way of being everything you always already are.

You cannot become Happy, You can only Be Happy.

Only everybody-all-a t-once can change the current chaos.

There is only the constant knowledge and enjoyment of the Heart, moment to moment, through the instant of all conditions of appearance and disappearance. Of this I am perfectly certain. I am That.

Most perfect self-understanding is the capability to directly (immediately) transcend dilemma, all problems, all seeking.

Real intelligence must be fiercely capable of investigating every aspect of existence, including the very process of knowledge that we call science .

Be Consciousness (Itself)- Contemplate Consciousness (Itself)- Transcend Everything in Consciousness (Itself).

You are all spirits. It is not that you "have" a spirit. To have a spirit implies that you are spirit and that you are also something else. Human beings are spirits. Being a human being is one of the ways of being a spirit.

To seek Truth is to deny Truth to being with. To seek Truth is to avoid Truth, constantly.

We are defined and controlled by all that we have not transcended.

Without true celebration discipline is obnoxious.

Everything eaten is killed. Every meal is a sacrifice.

There is only God. REALITY is God and has never required your belief. This reality no "one" survives. In Ultimate Reality no "one" is saved either - there is simply nothing to save you "from" : you have not emerged from any "other" and there is no place else for "you" to disappear into. Ever.

The nature of the world is inherently obvious, if you remain in a state of total psycho-physical oneness with whatever and all that presently arises.

When you're learning, you're burning - putting out a lot of heat. When you're all burned up, then you become light.

The Truth that is to be Realized may be summarized simply as the Realization that no matter what is arising, no matter how many others are present, there is only One Being. This is precisely different from the childish but common religious notion that even when you are alone there is always Someone Else present, Who will look out for you if you do the right thing. True freedom is not a matter of striking a deal with an All-Powerful Parental Deity; no such God exists. True freedom is in the Realization that there is only God and You are That One.

When happiness gets into your system, it is bound to break out on your face. While money can't buy happiness it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery. You always know, at this very moment, exactly what it would be to look, and feel, and be, and act completely Happy.

Men have only two emotions: hungry and horny. If you see him without an erection, make him a sandwich.A bargain is something you don't need at a price you can't resist.

True religion is a universal and (necessarily) ego-transcending psycho-physical motivation of human beings. However, up to the present stage in human history, only relatively few individuals in any generation have been willing and able to make the gesture that is true religion (or, otherwise, true esotericism). In their great numbers, most people have, up to now, never yet been ready or willing to adapt to the true (and progressive) practical, moral, devotional, Spiritual, and Transcendental Wisdom-culture of right life.