“It’s not that things will change to your liking [when you realize that everything is consciousness / Self)]. It’s just that your attitude and reactions to things will be quite different. … You will be able to see through the things going on in your life, through the negation, through the depression.

Through all these things that have been bothering you perhaps. You’ll be able to see through these things. And you’ll see bliss. You’ll see peace. You’ll see joy. You’ll be the happiest person that ever lived when you realize and know that consciousness is everything.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

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Self-realization is itself what it is. It has nothing to do with steps. Self-realization is. It is no thing that you can ever imagine. You do not have to look for it. You do not have to try to find it. It is someone in the ocean deciding to give a course on how to find the ocean and everybody comes running to listen when they’re all in the ocean.

You are realization itself. It is your real nature. The reason I’m sharing these five steps with you is because the five steps are part of the personal self, the ego, the I-thought, the five steps are involved in them. When we work on the five steps in the relative world we become ourselves, awakened and free.

Robert Adams