“If you’re running around looking for material gain you’re wasting your time. If you’re looking to make yourself happy physically you’re wasting your energy. I can assure you, you will be wonderfully happy if you go within the Self and try to understand who you are. Then you will really be happy. You will have … happiness that you never believed existed.

You are the one and there is no other. You are the one that has always been and will always be. See yourself that way. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. The reason you feel sorry for yourself is because you think of the past and the future. If you will only stop thinking, all of your sorrows would end. … Everything will come to a screeching halt if you shut your mind.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

Abide in the Now

Why should you have to do anything to awaken, when your Divine nature is already awake?

Why should you have to strive or overcome conditions or straighten out your life?

In the dream that you are dreaming, you give importance to your humanhood. That’s the only problem you really have. Giving importance to your humanhood. And once you do that, every other lie comes into experience.
That you’ve got to straighten conditions out, you’ve got to do this and you’ve got to do that, but they’re all lies.
Consciousness has nothing to do.

Absolute Reality is Absolute Reality just the way it is.
It doesn’t have to practice any sadhanas, chant any mantras, or do anything.

Why not awaken now?
What are you waiting for?

Make up your mind that you’re going to awaken right now, and allow your mind to turn into your Heart, which is Pure Awareness.
Do it!

Some of you are still asking, how do you do it?
Through Silence.
Experiencing the Moment, the Now, the Reality. Nothing is happening Now.
No one is suffering.
Now is the only moment you’ve got.

Abide in the Now.
Everything is perfect right now.
Feel it.
Don’t think about it.
Feel it.

There are no yesterdays, there are no tomorrows. All of your so-called senses have been transcended. No past and no
future. You are fully alive now. Right now. Enjoy.

Remember, as your mind starts thinking, grab hold of it by observing it, and go back to the Now. Whenever you fall away in thoughts, keep remembering to catch yourself. There are many of you allowing your minds to run away.
Stay in the moment.
There is no thing happening in the moment.
The moment is eternity.
If you’re doing this correctly, you should start to feel a joy welling up within you. A joy, a bliss, a peace that you never felt before.
Feel it.

Nothing else exists except for this Peace, this Love, this Awareness.
Call it by any name you like; doesn’t matter. You are That.

~ SILENCE OF THE HEART
1999 edition
Dialogue with Robert Adams

T. 068 @ Happiness – June 9, 1991

“There is absolutely nothing in this world to be excited about, nothing. For everything must change. Therefore if you become excited about something in this world you become confused, disillusioned, upset, for all things are subject to the law of change. Rather go within. If you can really go within you will feel a peace which passeth all understanding.

Divine joy and this peace and joy will become your world. You will see it wherever you look, wherever you go. Remember the only thing you see in this world is yourself, nothing else. Wherever you look you see yourself. If you don’t like what you see change yourself. Nothing wants to hurt you. Nothing wants to cause you pain.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

“Expect nothing, do nothing, be nothing and you will discover that you are everything.
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Nothing exists. The only reason the world exist is because you think you are the body.
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You have created God in your own image and you worship that God. The truth is that God should worship you.
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The universe is a big lie. And if you believe in the universe then you’re a bigger liar.
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There is absolutely nothing for you to do to become self-realized, except shut up!
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There is no one who can do anything for you and you can do nothing for yourself. It is better therefore to keep quiet and do nothing.
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There is no teacher that can set you free and there is no teaching that can set you free. Just knowing this, you will already be free.
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No one can save and you cannot save yourself. Knowing this, be still!.”
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“If you only knew who you were then all the Gods and Goddesses that you have been praying to would fall at your feet.”
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~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

“You are Brahman, nothing but Brahman. Brahman is consciousness, pure awareness. Consequently does Brahman have to become something or think about something or do something or worry about something? Your life is Brahman’s life.

And when you let go and stop worrying about something, stop thinking about something, then Brahman starts to express itself, as harmony, as bliss, as peace and you will find yourself in your right place going through those experiences and those situations that you have to go through, and all is well. You have absolutely nothing to do with it. It’s none of your business what happens to you.

If you can only do this and try it and practice it, you will see what I am talking about is real and true. Give it a chance, practice it for one day only and watch what happens. Instead of watching television, reading a newspaper, being concerned about the world and man’s inhumanity to man, for one day practice self-inquiry or just being still and watch what happens to you.

Watch the direction that you take. You will be moved by the unmovable. You will be carried along by the stream of blessedness to your highest good, by the current that knows the way. What I’m trying to say is that everything will take care of itself. Everything will always take care of itself. And Brahman is the Self!”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

“How can God [you] be afraid of anything? Does God have to pray to somebody? Does God have to meditate? Does God have to perform rituals, appease the gods and goddesses? Only so-called human beings do these things. But God is absolute freedom and you are that.

You are the absolute freedom yourself. Why do you insist on believing something else? Even while I’m talking to you some of you are thinking about something else. Let go of the thoughts, let go of the mind, let go of everything. Let go! Drop it! Drop everything. Hold onto nothing.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

As you rest in the silence when you inquire, “Who am I?” one day something will happen. One day you will all of a sudden feel a sort of explosion within yourself. You will feel your body melting. You will feel yourself becoming nothing. And the Self […] which is the heart centre will become everything, you will be free, you will be liberated.

— Robert Adams, T121: You Have To Desire Freedom

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Art: […]

“It’s virtually impossible for you to be hurt. What you see cannot hurt you. For what you see is an illusion. What you feel cannot hurt you for the feelings are illusory. So what can hurt you? Nothing. When did you first believe that you’re hurtable? That some-thing can hurt you, make you upset? Where do these feelings come from? They’re not the truth. They’re not the ultimate reality. But yet they appear so strong in most people.

When these things happen to you and you feel upset, when you feel something is wrong think about the snake in the rope. When a rope looks like a snake and you become frightened but you see that it’s a rope not a snake at all. Or the water in the mirage. When you see water in a desert and try to grab it, it’s sand. It never was water. So it is with everything that happens in your life, everything. You want to grab onto this, you want to hold onto that.

You’re afraid somebody is hurting you, somebody is doing something to you, somebody wants something from you. What can possibly happen to you? What? Nothing. Stop being afraid. Stand up tall, be counted, know who you are. When you know who you are the whole universe comes before you and bows to you. When you understand your true reality all the Gods and Goddesses will bow to you, pay homage to you. Awaken! Awaken! Awaken!”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

The good thing about all this, is that anybody can become liberated, at any moment. But this is because you are already liberated. If you were not liberated, you would never be able to become liberated. But because you’re already liberated, all you’re really doing is taking off the stuff that makes you think you’re not liberated, dark clouds, the layers, and layers of nonsense, garbage, that you covered yourself with all of these years. The thought “I am important, I am somebody”. This is what keeps you in bondage. ~Robert Adams

Art Laurel Burch

“Advaita means non-duality and there is only one power, and there is no power, in effect. There is only one. That one is you. It is not your body or your mind or your affairs or the world or the universe. It is one reality, one consciousness, one truth. That one is divine grace. The ultimate reality. The bliss consciousness, the love. It is all in oneness and you are that.

If you can only accept this you would be the happiest person in this universe. For you will realize that you have no responsibilities to mold your life in any direction, to shape your life or do anything with your life. For you have no life.Only the ultimate truth has a life, has its own life. It has nothing to do with you whatsoever.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)