“Think of the experiences you’ve been having in your life from the moment you open your eyes in the morning until you go to sleep at night. What goes through your mind? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you believe in? What is happening to you everyday?

The worst thing you can do in the morning is turn on the TV and read the newspaper. That is the worst thing you can do.

The best thing you can do in the morning when you wake up is to ask yourself, ‘Who am I?’ and ‘What am I doing here?’

The worst thing you can do at night before you go to sleep is to think about your job or your family or your finances or your sicknesses or … all the other things that have been going on in your life.

The best thing you can do before you go to sleep … is to inquire, ‘To whom do these activities come? To whom has the days activities come? Who has experienced these days activities.’ “

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)