“You are wonderful, made in the image of God, but what God? The God that you created in your mind. So if your God is a good God then you think of yourself as a good person. If your God is a santa clause God who lives in the sky, with a long beard that you pray for to give you things, the anthropomorphic type of a God saying, ‘God I need this, I want this. Please let me have this,’ whatever God you believe in you become. You become the God that you worship.

Or should you worship a God at all? If you believe that you’re an ego or a human being that is blown around like a leaf, then you should worship a God. For you have to turn to someone, you have to turn somewhere. But if you realize that God is within yourself, if you understand that you are the God that you’ve been worshiping all these years, it’s a whole new ball game. For you stop worshiping and you start meditating. By meditating I mean you keep still. You become quiet. You no longer need use words.

As the mind becomes quiescent, as the thoughts subside, the divine harmony which has always been appears to awaken within you. You become radiantly happy for no reason. You become totally peaceful for no reason. You gravitate to the place that you’re supposed to be. The right people come into your life who are supposed to be in your life. Everything happens by itself. You need not do anything.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)