“For some reason you have been hypnotized to believe that you’re separate. So you’ve got to take action, you’ve got to work, you’ve got to stick up for your rights. You have to do all sorts of things. It’s just like when you’re dreaming you believe you have to do all kinds of things also. And then you find out your dream was just a bubble.

It came from nowhere and ends in nowhere. This world is exactly the same. What you think is the world is only an extension of your consciousness. The whole universe emanates out of your mind. You are dreaming the mortal dream right now, right this minute. Because you’re thinking there is you and me.

There are the trees outside, the flowers, there is furniture and you believe it’s all external to yourself. This is what keeps you back from your freedom, from your unalloyed happiness, from your total bliss. By thinking that the things of this world are apart from you.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)