“Learn to be still. When I say, ‘Learn to be still’ I’m not [saying] to meditate. Remember when you meditate there has to be a subject and an object. When I say, ‘To be still,’ just be still. Be still, do not think of anything special. Just be still, quiet. …

Think of all the noise that some of you made this morning as you got out of bed, the talking, the arguing, the mind chattering. That is what I’m referring to, be still. You can talk to your mind this way, tell your mind to ‘be still!’ When your mind begins to chatter say, ‘Be still!’

When the mind starts telling you all kind of things about somebody else say, ‘Be still!’ When the mind brings things of the past say, ‘Be still!’ That’s all you have to do. You are the power. You can still the mind if you really want to, just by telling it to be still.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

“If you’re running around looking for material gain you’re wasting your time. If you’re looking to make yourself happy physically you’re wasting your energy. I can assure you, you will be wonderfully happy if you go within the Self and try to understand who you are. Then you will really be happy. You will have … happiness that you never believed existed.

You are the one and there is no other. You are the one that has always been and will always be. See yourself that way. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. The reason you feel sorry for yourself is because you think of the past and the future. If you will only stop thinking, all of your sorrows would end. … Everything will come to a screeching halt if you shut your mind.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

Abide in the Now

Why should you have to do anything to awaken, when your Divine nature is already awake?

Why should you have to strive or overcome conditions or straighten out your life?

In the dream that you are dreaming, you give importance to your humanhood. That’s the only problem you really have. Giving importance to your humanhood. And once you do that, every other lie comes into experience.
That you’ve got to straighten conditions out, you’ve got to do this and you’ve got to do that, but they’re all lies.
Consciousness has nothing to do.

Absolute Reality is Absolute Reality just the way it is.
It doesn’t have to practice any sadhanas, chant any mantras, or do anything.

Why not awaken now?
What are you waiting for?

Make up your mind that you’re going to awaken right now, and allow your mind to turn into your Heart, which is Pure Awareness.
Do it!

Some of you are still asking, how do you do it?
Through Silence.
Experiencing the Moment, the Now, the Reality. Nothing is happening Now.
No one is suffering.
Now is the only moment you’ve got.

Abide in the Now.
Everything is perfect right now.
Feel it.
Don’t think about it.
Feel it.

There are no yesterdays, there are no tomorrows. All of your so-called senses have been transcended. No past and no
future. You are fully alive now. Right now. Enjoy.

Remember, as your mind starts thinking, grab hold of it by observing it, and go back to the Now. Whenever you fall away in thoughts, keep remembering to catch yourself. There are many of you allowing your minds to run away.
Stay in the moment.
There is no thing happening in the moment.
The moment is eternity.
If you’re doing this correctly, you should start to feel a joy welling up within you. A joy, a bliss, a peace that you never felt before.
Feel it.

Nothing else exists except for this Peace, this Love, this Awareness.
Call it by any name you like; doesn’t matter. You are That.

~ SILENCE OF THE HEART
1999 edition
Dialogue with Robert Adams

T. 068 @ Happiness – June 9, 1991

“There is absolutely nothing in this world to be excited about, nothing. For everything must change. Therefore if you become excited about something in this world you become confused, disillusioned, upset, for all things are subject to the law of change. Rather go within. If you can really go within you will feel a peace which passeth all understanding.

Divine joy and this peace and joy will become your world. You will see it wherever you look, wherever you go. Remember the only thing you see in this world is yourself, nothing else. Wherever you look you see yourself. If you don’t like what you see change yourself. Nothing wants to hurt you. Nothing wants to cause you pain.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

“Expect nothing, do nothing, be nothing and you will discover that you are everything.
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Nothing exists. The only reason the world exist is because you think you are the body.
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You have created God in your own image and you worship that God. The truth is that God should worship you.
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The universe is a big lie. And if you believe in the universe then you’re a bigger liar.
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There is absolutely nothing for you to do to become self-realized, except shut up!
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There is no one who can do anything for you and you can do nothing for yourself. It is better therefore to keep quiet and do nothing.
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There is no teacher that can set you free and there is no teaching that can set you free. Just knowing this, you will already be free.
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No one can save and you cannot save yourself. Knowing this, be still!.”
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“If you only knew who you were then all the Gods and Goddesses that you have been praying to would fall at your feet.”
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~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)