“A question that I’m most often asked, ‘How can I tell if I’m making spiritual progress? Is there a sign? How can I know if I’m making spiritual progress on this path?’ The answer is very simple. When you look at the world what do you see? Do you see the same world you saw five years ago? If so your habits haven’t changed.

[If] your judgmental-ism hasn’t changed, your ego hasn’t changed, your anger hasn’t changed, this really means you’re not doing anything … and you will see the things that you are, outside of yourself. But, if you’re feeling more peace, more harmony, when there is strife going on, so-to-speak, you look right through it and you see harmony.

You no longer are judgmental towards anybody or anything. Right and wrong, good and bad, up and down, forward and backward are all illusory to you, then you know you’re making progress, things are happening.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)