“If you’re running around looking for material gain you’re wasting your time. If you’re looking to make yourself happy physically you’re wasting your energy. I can assure you, you will be wonderfully happy if you go within the Self and try to understand who you are. Then you will really be happy. You will have … happiness that you never believed existed.

You are the one and there is no other. You are the one that has always been and will always be. See yourself that way. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. The reason you feel sorry for yourself is because you think of the past and the future. If you will only stop thinking, all of your sorrows would end. … Everything will come to a screeching halt if you shut your mind.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)