“You should not believe a word I’m saying to you. Find out for yourself. You are the one with the answers, yet you keep reacting to life outside of yourself. You keep allowing the world to show you how you should feel. If the world shows you something nice and good you become happy.

If it shows you something that is not nice or good you become miserable. Depending on your upbringing, what you believe is good, what you believe is bad. … Nothing is good or bad but thinking makes it so. It is your mind that dictates to you and tells you that this is good or this is bad.

It is your mind that tells you that this is right and this is wrong. Where did you mind get this knowledge? From experience. But is experience the truth? No. The experience is not the truth, it’s just your training, how you grew up.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)