“You appear to come into this world alone and you appear as if you’re gong to leave this world alone. All the things that have upset you or made you happy, you can’t take those things with you. All the things you’ve accumulated, your furniture, your houses, your cars. Everything has to be left behind. You hopes, your dreams, all left behind. And where you go is determined by what you’re doing right now. What’s important to you?

Be honest with yourself. For some people it’s important to worry, to fear, become upset. To look at the shady side of life and believe something terrible is always happening. Everybody is different, but you make your own life by what you allow yourself to think and believe. Thoughts are things. Whatever you ponder, whatever you identify with becomes your reality sooner or later.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)