“You have to make the right identification. Are you consciousness or are you the [person]? If you believe you are consciousness then you begin to act like consciousness. You will stop worrying, you will stop fearing, you will stop thinking something is wrong someplace. You will feel all is well. Everything is unfolding as it should.

You will be at peace with yourself and the world. But you will know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you are all-pervading. Your essence is everywhere and you are total freedom. Right now! Right this minute. You are totally free of any problem that has ever been bothering you.

You are totally free right this minute of anything, of everybody. You’re totally free. … Feel it. You are free! You’re no longer in bondage to person, place or thing. You are infinite freedom, infinite bliss, infinite love. This is your real nature. Love the Self. Love the Self always, and you will always be happy.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

“[As you begin to awaken] you become more peaceful, more loving, kinder. You begin to understand that there … is nothing to analyze, nothing to discover, nothing to really do, but to be yourself just the way you are. There is no one around that can tell you anything. There is no book around that can teach you anything. You are the one right now. You are the one you’ve always been looking for. You are that! Right this minute, right now, incomprehensible beauty and joy. That bliss that you hear about is yours. It is yours right this moment.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

“You have to drop everything you ever learnt. Everything that you’ve learnt in school, in your travels. All of this must be given up if you want to be free, if you want to be liberated. Liberation is your very nature, your swarrupa [true nature]. Absolute reality is what you really are. Pure awareness. But it’s emptiness. These things are totally empty of anything.

Pure awareness, absolute reality, does not carry any knowledge [with] it. It does not contain any bit of knowledge whatsoever. It is emptiness. Total absolute emptiness. Emptiness is what makes the universe comes to pass. It is out of the emptiness that the universe grows. Everything comes from nothing.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

Do not be in conflict with yourself
Do not be in conflict with your thoughts and the self. When there is no conflict there are no thoughts. Thoughts only appear because there’s conflict. By conflict I mean, you’re worrying about getting rid of your thoughts, you’re doing sadhana, meditation, pranayamas, japa. All of these things cause conflict.
For aren’t you saying, ‘I’m doing these things to become liberated. I’m doing these things to become free.’ The reason there’s a the conflict is because you’re already free and liberated. Therefore when you give yourself the information that you have to do something to become liberated, there is immediately conflict.
Robert Adams

“Everything I see is love. I see love everywhere. In the clouds in the sky, in the tree, in the birds, in people, in the animals. I am able to see this because I am that myself. Nothing and no one can hurt me any longer. For I have become unhurt-able. No one can show me any evil anywhere because evil is not a power. It has no validity. It is just wrong thinking.

All is well, all is right, all is good. If you truly wish to repent just sit in silent meditation and see that perfect reality within, for all manner of evil merely arise in erroneous thought and like the morning dew before the rising sun can completely be eliminated through the magnificent wisdom and light. You are that light. You are that wisdom. And all is well.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

There is Pure Awareness that is
with you all the time, just awaiting
your recognition, awaiting your
understanding that you are not a
body, that you are a spirit, called
the Atman, Brahman, Absolute
Reality. This is who you really
are. This is your real nature.

“For some reason you have been hypnotized to believe that you’re separate. So you’ve got to take action, you’ve got to work, you’ve got to stick up for your rights. You have to do all sorts of things. It’s just like when you’re dreaming you believe you have to do all kinds of things also. And then you find out your dream was just a bubble.

It came from nowhere and ends in nowhere. This world is exactly the same. What you think is the world is only an extension of your consciousness. The whole universe emanates out of your mind. You are dreaming the mortal dream right now, right this minute. Because you’re thinking there is you and me.

There are the trees outside, the flowers, there is furniture and you believe it’s all external to yourself. This is what keeps you back from your freedom, from your unalloyed happiness, from your total bliss. By thinking that the things of this world are apart from you.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

“You are wonderful, made in the image of God, but what God? The God that you created in your mind. So if your God is a good God then you think of yourself as a good person. If your God is a santa clause God who lives in the sky, with a long beard that you pray for to give you things, the anthropomorphic type of a God saying, ‘God I need this, I want this. Please let me have this,’ whatever God you believe in you become. You become the God that you worship.

Or should you worship a God at all? If you believe that you’re an ego or a human being that is blown around like a leaf, then you should worship a God. For you have to turn to someone, you have to turn somewhere. But if you realize that God is within yourself, if you understand that you are the God that you’ve been worshiping all these years, it’s a whole new ball game. For you stop worshiping and you start meditating. By meditating I mean you keep still. You become quiet. You no longer need use words.

As the mind becomes quiescent, as the thoughts subside, the divine harmony which has always been appears to awaken within you. You become radiantly happy for no reason. You become totally peaceful for no reason. You gravitate to the place that you’re supposed to be. The right people come into your life who are supposed to be in your life. Everything happens by itself. You need not do anything.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

“When you realize and know that your body is a dream, nothing will ever bother you again. Nothing can ever hurt you again. … Just by knowing this, the knowingness goes deeper and deeper and deeper inside of you, until everything is transcended totally and completely and absolutely. And even though you still appear to be walking around in a body, there’s nobody home! Nothing can ever happen to you again!

Do you see what I’m trying to say? If somebody shoots you, hits you over the head, tears your eyes out, and all these other good things, it will not be happening to you! This sounds strange, I know, to some of you, but it’s the absolute truth. All of these things can only happen to a human being.

As long as you believe you’re a human being you’ll experience these things over and over again like all good human beings do. But as soon as you give up the body, I don’t mean dying, I mean giving up the body and you will say, ‘This is not me. This was never me. I am not a being that gets older and older and older and dies. That’s not me at all! I am pure consciousness. I am Brahman.’

Then something very interesting will happen to you. You will see through the dream to reality. The world will never fool you again. The world to you will be like water in the mirage. It will be a hallucination. The world will never hurt you again.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

“[Once you realize that consciousness is everything, it] means the universe is your friend. You have no enemies, nobody’s against you. No one wants to hurt you. You’re free! You’ll develop a great deal of humility, a great peace, lovingkindness towards person, place and thing. All of this happens just by realizing that everything is consciousness. You should do this when you first awaken in the morning.

Do not start thinking about your life and what you have to do during the day. But as soon as you get up in the morning, realize immediately that everything is consciousness. Consciousness means there’s something alive going on, some living thing happening. The very air you breathe, the space that you take up, is consciousness. It is your true nature. You are that Self. Everything is consciousness. Nothing is left out, nothing!”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

Keep silent, do not be judgmental,
and leave the world alone. There
will always be something in
this world to correct, but
you cannot do this.

Robert Adams