“As you continue to work on yourself, … the day comes when all this is gone, and you are gone. You become nothing, a good-for-nothing. You go beyond nothingness, which is ineffable, something that can’t be explained, for there are no words or thoughts to understand this. Yet, you’ve got it all within you. Everything you need is within you. You are the one.

All the tools that you need are within yourself. But you have to make the move to do something. As I said, leave the realization to me. Work on yourself. Get rid of all the stuff that’s kept you bound for so many years. You know what it is, the fears, preconceived ideas, all these things that have kept you in bondage all these years. Let go of them. Give them up. Surrender everything.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)