“If you can only learn to love enough, if you can turn within yourself and love yourself with all your heart, with all your might, with all your being, then when you look at the world you will see yourself. For isn’t that what you’re seeing right now? You’re only seeing yourself when you look at this world. You believe you’re seeing something else, but you’re not. You believe you see trees, people, sky, mountains, rain.

You’re only seeing yourself. Whatever you think of certain people, whenever you look at people, whatever conclusion you come to about people it’s your self you’re talking about. This is the first metaphysical principle of Advaita Vedanta. There is only one Self and you are that! So how can you possibly see something else? Ponder this. Think about this.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)