Adyashanti Quotes

Enlightenment is nothing more than the complete absence of resistance to what is. End of story.

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• Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Thought
  • Loved
  • Brazil

• I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.

  

  J Mascis
  • Couple
  • Gold
  • Year

• If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Women
  • Done
  • Bridges

• The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Up
  • Path
  • Wind

• That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Up
  • Real
  • Action

• It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.

  

  Gabriele Nanni
  • God
  • Men
  • Power

• Corporations that are formed for the purpose of earning profits do not have the constitutionally protected rights that natural citizens have. They should not spend their corporate dollars, Treasury dollars, to influence outcome of elections.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Purpose
  • Influence
  • Natural

• Strip away the usual hot air, and bin Laden's audiotape is the sign of a seriously weakened man.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Air

• Filtering can be a very good thing when it comes to human relationships and familial harmony. Yeah, filtering is often an absolute necessity.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Good

• At least once a week, I try to have one day where I have nothing planned so I can get up and just go back to bed and lay around and recharge my batteries.

  

  Dolph Lundgren
  • Up

• The next day the two sisters went to the ball, and so did Cinderella, but dressed more magnificently than before. The King's son was always by her side, and his pretty speeches to her never ceased.

  

  Charles Perrault
  • Pretty
  • Son
  • King

• The black experience for me has been very interesting. Some days, I wake up, and I feel really black. Some days, I'm like, 'This is me. I'm black. Black Lives Matter. Black pride. Look at my cocoa skin.' I just feel it's my being.

  

  Jessica Williams
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Black

• My focus is to grow, have fun, and work with people who inspire me, like Philip Seymour Hoffman.

  

  Jesse Plemons
  • People
  • Work
  • Fun

• If we launch a new product, we have to time it right. It's not about how soon you can do it but how well we can do it.

  

  Bhavish Aggarwal
  • Time

• I know that you are a stone, you do not cause benefit or harm; and if it were not that I had seen Allâh’s Messenger (Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam) kiss you, I would never have kissed you.

  

  Umar
  • Kiss
  • Benefits
  • Kissing

• Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it.

  

  Lady Hester Stanhope
  • Nature

• I feel 100% a Yamaha rider in my heart. I had a long career and raced with several factory bikes, but the highlight of my career is undoubtedly with Yamaha.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Long
  • Heart
  • Career

• Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Reason
  • Desert
  • Driven

• The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Trouble
  • Enlightenment
  • Witness

• The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Future
  • Goals
  • Lives

• Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always comes out of our own mind.

  

  William James
  • Mind
  • May
  • Objects

• Enlightenment is nothing more than the complete absence of resistance to what is. End of story.

  

  Adyashanti
  • Enlightenment
  • Resistance
  • Absence