Divine Utterances:
Spiritual Life




This page includes a small selection from the many Divine Utterances (which Adi Da sometimes humorously called "Holy Mutterances") that Adi Da spoke or wrote from 1972 to 2008, on the topic of Spiritual Life. For more on Adi Da's Divine Utterances, click here.


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  • sacred


    Spiritual life is about Realizing utter Love-Bliss, greater Bliss than is realized through sex or any other conditional experience.

    "This Liberating Impulse" (February 1, 1985)
    Easy Death

    tags:   Enlightenment,   Happiness,   Sexuality,   Spiritual Life



    To live a truly spiritual life, you need the Realizer, the Teaching, and the Community. You need all three.

    tags:   Spiritual Life





    Spiritual life is a crisis. Therefore, Spiritual life involves discomfort at times. . . The individual who is really using this process can be enduring this crisis almost continually, with great frequency and intensity — and, yet, like a soldier on the march, the person never misses a step, never becomes outwardly reactive. Such a person continues to function, and apparently only enjoys life.

    My "Bright" Word

    tags:   Heat,   Spiritual Life



    If we are truly serious about the matter of religion and spiritual practice, we must also be consistently self-critical. Religion and spirituality without self-criticism are merely forms of self-protecting enthusiasm, founded on uninspected fear.

    "Ego Death and the Chaos of Experience"
    Scientific Proof of the Existence of God
    Will Soon Be Announced By The White House!

    tags:   Religion,   Right Life / Discipline,   Spiritual Life



    If the Adepts do not speak, the only voice that will be heard is that of ordinary people who are not God-Realized. The Adepts are the Sources of Spiritual life. Such individuals must therefore enter into the stream of society, to purify the culture and reestablish the process of God-Realization. If they do not speak and become influential, there is no hope at all for humanity.

    The Enlightenment of the Whole Body

    tags:   Enlightenment,   Spiritual Life,   Spiritual Masters



    You may fantasize that Spiritual life is about living in caves, wearing your robes, and renouncing everything. Such a notion is just a dream. It is nonsense. True renunciation is here, in the body, suffering it, becoming Illumined by submitting to be a human being. The practice of such true renunciation is the agony of self-knowledge and knowledge of another.

    "The Heart Is in Bondage Until Love Is Incarnated in the World" (October, 1993)
    The Incarnation of Love

    tags:   Renunciation,   Self-Understanding,   Spiritual Life



    Everything in the sacred domain is about ecstasy. Everything in the social (or secular) domain is about control of ecstasy and using the human faculties (of body, emotion, mind, and breath) for other (generally, non-ecstatic—or ego-based) business in the moment.

    "My Call for the Universal Restoration of the Sacred (or Central) Domain of Human Life"
    Eleutherios

    tags:   Control,   Happiness,   Spiritual Life



    Exercise the flower.

    "A Mastered Life" (December 29, 1995)
    The "Brightening" Way Talk Series

    tags:   Spiritual Life



    Though there are many historical traditions of religion and Spirituality, in Truth, there is one Great Tradition. . . . The Great Tradition of humankind is a universal tradition, because it is based on the One Reality — not only the Great, Indivisible Non-conditional Reality, but also the unity of conditional existence and the commonality and unity of human beings themselves.

    The Ancient Walk-About Way (September 8, 2004)

    tags:   Great Tradition,   Religion,   Spiritual Life



    Real life, then, the higher evolutionary process, is a basic matter of surrendering from the heart in every moment and feeling to the point of dissolution or ecstasy.

    tags:   Feeling,   Happiness,   Heart,   Spiritual Life,   Surrender,   Way of Adidam



    Spiritual life is like having sex with a gorilla. You're not finished until the gorilla is.

    tags:   Spiritual Life



    An Infinite Degree of Yes! Is All 'It' Takes.

    tags:   Enlightenment,   Spiritual Life,   Surrender






    Da


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