Awakening isn’t something that someone can give you.
Awakening is your true nature.
It’s your real self.

You are already awake but you believe you are asleep. You believe you are human, that you are the doer. You believe all of your experiences are real. And then, if you go a
little higher, you think all of your experiences are karmic. But I say to you there is no karma, and there are no experiences. You are bright and shining just the way you are.
But if you want to play the game of karma, you can. It’s a game. Now where did it come from? You created it out of your mind.

There are those people who teach courses on karma and reincarnation and they believe that’s it. So naturally you are creating your own destiny. And the joke is you keep coming back again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, having all sorts of experiences, until one century from now, or one billion years from now, you get tired of playing the game. And you say, “Wait a minute. I seem to be going around in a circle. Does it never end?” And then you finally ask the question, “For whom is the game? Who believes in their humanity? Who believes in their experiences? Who is it that seems to suffer? or Who is it that seems to be happy?”

Remember that human happiness and human suffering are two sides of the same coin. There is no difference. You get tired of the whole thing. So you pose the question to yourself, “For whom is this karma? For whom is this world?
For whom is this game? Who has to go through these things?”
But instead of doing this most people go to a psychiatrist, a psychologist, a preacher, to ministers and so forth. They never get the right answer, because those aforementioned people tell you how to deal with effects.

You go to a doctor and you say, “My arm hurts when I hold it like this.” So he says, “Don’t hold it like that.” And that’s what we all do. We are looking for answers for an external means, and you can never get an answer to your problems or to anything from the world, because the world changes continuously. One time the answer may be this way and another time the answer may be that way, depending on circumstances, depending on the time.

As an example, fifty years ago if you had a cold and you went to a doctor they would draw blood. They would give you all kinds of antibiotics and they would give you everything that was in style in those days. Today if you have a cold they do something else. Everything changes. There are people who are going to do what’s in vogue at the time, but the real answer is within yourself. The solution is within you. Yet you go about it in the wrong way when you’re looking to solve a problem with another problem, which is your mind. You cannot use your mind to solve a problem, because your mind is the cause of the problem to begin with. And you cannot ask anyone else for the
solution, because they are using their minds to give you the solution, which they think is right.

The answer of course is to know yourself. When you focus the attention on your Self with a capital ‘S’ the problem becomes resolved automatically.
How do you focus your attention on yourself? By asking, “What am I?” or, “Who
am I?” Simply ask, “Who am I?” when anything takes place in your life that you wish to change. Do not try to change the thing that is disturbing you. Even if you do it’ll pop up somewhere else. Go right to the source. “What is the source of my depression? I am. I am depressed. Who is the I that is depressed? Where does it come from?” You never answer. You just have a listening attitude when you ask the question. Then the answer comes back to you saying, “The depression comes to me. I feel it. I have it.” Then you have to realize that it is the I that has it, because you just said, “I have it.” So the I has the problem, not you.

It is always your personal I that has the problem. It has absolutely nothing to do with you. Just understanding this, awakens you. I is not the self. The personal I is the ego. So when you say, “I don’t feel good, I don’t feel happy, I am worried,” or anything else in life, even when you say, “I feel good, I feel wonderful,” you’re still talking about your personal I. And your personal I is part of the world of duality.

Therefore when you say, “I feel good in the morning,” the first thing that comes along that you don’t like you say, “I feel bad.”
You do not want to use that method. What you want to say is to yourself, “This has nothing to do with me. I feels bad. I feels good.” That’s not bad English, just showing you how to talk to yourself. I is separate from you. You have nothing to do with I.

Just being able to see that resolves your problem. If you will try it you will see I’m right. When you get depressed, when you feel out of sorts, when you feel something is wrong, when you feel angry, or whatever,
ask yourself, “Who feels this? I do.” And then realize, “I have nothing to do with myself.”

Your perfection is always shining. You are pure consciousness. You are not the personal I. Let the personal I have all the problems it chooses. It has nothing to do with you. But observe for yourself. Become the witness to the fact that the personal I has the problem, and not you. That’s all you have to do. Just watch it and look, intelligently, and see where the problem comes from.

The Collected Works of Robert Adams.
The Fourth State of Consciousness.