Monthly Archives: September 2020

If you investigate … -RAdams

“It is your self, with a small ‘s’ that sees a problem. But if you try to resolve the problem outside of you, it will never be resolved. It’s resolving yourself, knowing the truth, understanding who you are, that brings you peace and realization.

What you see, what you think, what you smell, what you taste, what you hear, this is all false imagination! It appears real. It appears very real, as the world appears real, as your body appears real. But if you investigate you will find there’s no reality to it.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

Until there’s nothing left -rjs

As fallen human beings
We believe that
Guns have power,
Bombs have power,
Floods have power,
Hate & fear have power,
Ghosts and goblins have power,
Jealousy and envy have power,
Poverty has power,
Selfishness & sickness have power.
As Spiritual beings we do not.
We know that miracles are
Divinely natural.
We lift up our thinking
And our Loving
Until there’s nothing left to behold.

Robin Starbuck 2017

Not there yet? -rjs

Are you not there yet?
Not where you yearn to be?
Trying, trying, trying?
Quit!!
The only thing that’s
Ever in the way
Is our incessant
Unrelenting
Idiotic
“Need” to pull God down
To our littleness.
How ridiculous – really!
Can’t we see that
We – not God –
Need to lift ourselves
To the spiritual
Realm of the real.

Robin Starbuck 2017