“You do not have to be with a group of enlightened beings to become self-realized. You do not have to be in a monastery, on a mountain top in a cave or anywhere else to become self-realized. Due to the fact that you’re already self-realized. You are already free. You are already bright and shining. What you do have to do is leave everything alone.

You have to stop being concerned about person, place or thing, about who is right or wrong and what is going on in your life. As far as your life is concerned these things have absolutely nothing to do with it. In other words you may be a thief and be self-realized. It’s a very strange understanding but it’s true. To be self-realized all you have to do is to wake up, no matter what position you’re in.”

Robert Adams