EVERYTHING IS CHANGING
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“You will find out as you keep [watching your thoughts] everything begins to change all around you. Yet everything is the same all around you. You see things that other people do not see. You become things that other people can never become. For instance, you become all-pervading. You begin to feel your presence, your essence in the leaves, in the trees, in the sky, in the animals, in the insects. You begin to see that all this is the Self, and ‘I am that.’

This is when you have total reverence for all of life. Everything becomes God. Everything becomes consciousness. You’re no longer saying, ‘I, I, me, me, I need this, I want that, I feel this way, I feel that way.’ You have grown out of this. [You continue using the term I with people because otherwise] they do not understand what you are talking about, so you use the term I with them. But you yourself know that I does not exist. There is no longer an I to keep you in bondage. The I has given way to omnipresence.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)