“The reason why so many people are in negative experiences and not become self-realized is due to the fact that they accept their negative experiences. They accept what the senses show them and tell them. They accept the world as it appears as real. They accept their body, whatever it’s going through to be real. How can you become self-realized if you’re doing this?

It is up to each one of you to drop the world from your mind, mentally. Not to make any changes. Some people still believe that if they make positive changes they will be happier. They’ll have more of an opportunity to study, to meditate, to think. Again ●●remember self-realization has absolutely nothing to do with all of these things. It has nothing to do with meditation, nothing to do with thinking, nothing to do with changing to a positive atmosphere. “

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)