“You have to drop everything you ever learnt. Everything that you’ve learnt in school, in your travels. All of this must be given up if you want to be free, if you want to be liberated. Liberation is your very nature, your swarrupa [true nature]. Absolute reality is what you really are. Pure awareness. But it’s emptiness. These things are totally empty of anything.

Pure awareness, absolute reality, does not carry any knowledge [with] it. It does not contain any bit of knowledge whatsoever. It is emptiness. Total absolute emptiness. Emptiness is what makes the universe comes to pass. It is out of the emptiness that the universe grows. Everything comes from nothing.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)