“You think the world is personal to you, but the world is going through its own karma, so-to-speak. And people react when new changes come along. How foolish. In other words, they’re not working on themselves, trying to become free and liberated. They’re concerned with the world and what’s happening and trying to change things.

It will appear that things are changing but they will never change, it will always be the same. It will keep changing so that it becomes the same again and again and again—different situations, different people, different conditions— but the same world doing the same things. …

When it’s time to give up this body, to drop it, you can’t take anybody with you—nobody, no possessions, nothing. All the things you’ve been fighting for will have to be left behind. All your beliefs, your politics, everything will all have to be left behind. … Do not spend your life discussing politics or the world or people or places. Save yourself! Save yourself!”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)