Do not allow your thoughts to become greater than you. No matter what your thoughts tell you, don’t listen. Remember your thoughts are not your friend. Your thoughts try to confound you, confuse you. And they will tell you all kinds of things. Do not listen to your thoughts, even your good thoughts. Transcend everything, go beyond your thoughts to your bliss, to your joy and to your happiness.

Only you can make yourself free. And it is simply by letting go. Letting go of everything mentally. Remember I’m not saying you have to leave your family or leave your job or leave your house or leave anything. I am saying that you mentally have to become disattached to these things. You may say, “How can I love my family if I become disattached?” What becomes disattached is your ego, the mind. When the ego and mind become weaker, love becomes stronger. Therefore you can love your enemies. Love everything in this world, in this universe and yet not be attached to anything.

This love comes by itself. You do not have to develop it. It only comes when you let go of the other. As you let go of everything else. Things like love, bliss, joy, peace come by themselves.

You have to become totally honest with yourself. You cannot have a secret life and on top of this want freedom and liberation. There are no secrets in the Self. It’s an open book. As long as you’re leading two lives then this teaching becomes entertainment for you.

Robert Adams

All of the things that you are interested in, all of your fears, all of your frustrations, goods and bads, all of your happy and sads, it’s all a dream. And the more you get attached to it, the more human you become. It’s like getting attached to a dream and never waking up and you keep living the dream.

Robert Adams

What is the purpose of water in the mirage? Does it have a purpose? You see a pool of water in the desert and you think it’s real. And then you go for it and you’re picking up sand. And so it is with existence. Existence seems so valid, so real, so true. Yet who exists? Have you ever existed? Will you ever exist, what exists? Nothing.

Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

Working on your sadhana, spiritual exercises, spiritual practices [gives you] a sense of peacefulness. You begin to be totally peaceful. Things that used to disturb you [don’t] disturb you any longer. People that used to disturb you, used to give you trouble, they can no longer make you feel angry or upset. You feel an innate peace, the peace that passeth all understanding.

You feel very peaceful in whatever you do. It’s a beautiful peace. It’s a wonderful feeling. You are at peace with the world and at peace with the universe. You have reconciled yourself with the entire universe. With the mineral kingdom, with the vegetable kingdom, with the animal kingdom, with the human kingdom and you feel good about yourself.

Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

Be aware of yourself, always. The world goes through its own karma. It has absolutely nothing to do with you. You belong to God. Everything you see is God. This is why you should be nonjudgemental. Leave everything alone. By practising these things, you become radiantly happy. Everyone wants something. If your mind stops thinking, what happens? Some of you believe you will not have anything, that you will have more problems. But it’s in reverse. You experience bliss, joy and happiness when you don’t want anything. From what we know, people want something and when they get it, they become more miserable than ever before.

Robert Adams, Silence of the Heart

If you know the true reason you are coming here it will make a tremendous difference in your life. You are coming here to awaken, to awaken from the dream of maya and of a personal I. You are coming here to find peace and happiness. Therefore just being here is a meditation in itself.

The modality I use to help you is silence, not words. There are no weekend seminars. There are no special mantras. There is no initiation. There is nothing. Yet the nothing is everything. You believe you are the doer, and everything you accomplish is your deed. That is a lie. You don’t even exist! You were not even born! How can you be the doer? There is no one who does anything. Yet everything gets done. It is a paradox.

When you realize you are not the doer everything gets done in a better way. You stop identifying with object and subject. You become free of all attachments. As long as you believe that you are responsible for anything that takes place, you have a problem. You will have to repeat that experience over and over, until you realize that you have absolutely nothing to do with that experience, or anything else for that matter! You are pure consciousness. Your real self is absolute reality. You have nothing to do with this world.

Robert Adams, Excerpt from Satsang 14

Give thanks and love Thyself
You must always have gratitude for the way you are. Do not feel sorry for yourself. Love yourself just the way you are. By loving yourself just the way you are, you will transcend those things that have appeared to annoy you, to bother you, to cause you pain. They will all go. You will no longer be aware of them. Let go of everything. Have no desires whatsoever, dive deep within the SELF. Do not react to the outside world or your body. ALL IS WELL. When you are without thoughts, without needs, without wants, desires, then YOU are God. ‘YOU’ are the universe. You are Divine Love. YOU Are Beautiful.

Robert Adams

I couldn’t find where this quote originated…Satsang or Collection.

[When you awaken] you’ll understand that you are pure awareness, effortless, choice-less, pure awareness. You are consciousness, the absolute reality, the Brahman, the ultimate reality, the I am that I am, bliss. You will feel an ineffable bliss that is beyond description, an unalloyed happiness that you can’t even imagine exists.

Yet all the words that I’m using will not really come into your mind, because you’ll have no mind. There will be no words. You will just be these things that I am talking about, and you will be that forever.

Robert Adams

Awakening isn’t something that someone can give you.
Awakening is your true nature.
It’s your real self.

You are already awake but you believe you are asleep. You believe you are human, that you are the doer. You believe all of your experiences are real. And then, if you go a
little higher, you think all of your experiences are karmic. But I say to you there is no karma, and there are no experiences. You are bright and shining just the way you are.
But if you want to play the game of karma, you can. It’s a game. Now where did it come from? You created it out of your mind.

There are those people who teach courses on karma and reincarnation and they believe that’s it. So naturally you are creating your own destiny. And the joke is you keep coming back again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, having all sorts of experiences, until one century from now, or one billion years from now, you get tired of playing the game. And you say, “Wait a minute. I seem to be going around in a circle. Does it never end?” And then you finally ask the question, “For whom is the game? Who believes in their humanity? Who believes in their experiences? Who is it that seems to suffer? or Who is it that seems to be happy?”

Remember that human happiness and human suffering are two sides of the same coin. There is no difference. You get tired of the whole thing. So you pose the question to yourself, “For whom is this karma? For whom is this world?
For whom is this game? Who has to go through these things?”
But instead of doing this most people go to a psychiatrist, a psychologist, a preacher, to ministers and so forth. They never get the right answer, because those aforementioned people tell you how to deal with effects.

You go to a doctor and you say, “My arm hurts when I hold it like this.” So he says, “Don’t hold it like that.” And that’s what we all do. We are looking for answers for an external means, and you can never get an answer to your problems or to anything from the world, because the world changes continuously. One time the answer may be this way and another time the answer may be that way, depending on circumstances, depending on the time.

As an example, fifty years ago if you had a cold and you went to a doctor they would draw blood. They would give you all kinds of antibiotics and they would give you everything that was in style in those days. Today if you have a cold they do something else. Everything changes. There are people who are going to do what’s in vogue at the time, but the real answer is within yourself. The solution is within you. Yet you go about it in the wrong way when you’re looking to solve a problem with another problem, which is your mind. You cannot use your mind to solve a problem, because your mind is the cause of the problem to begin with. And you cannot ask anyone else for the
solution, because they are using their minds to give you the solution, which they think is right.

The answer of course is to know yourself. When you focus the attention on your Self with a capital ‘S’ the problem becomes resolved automatically.
How do you focus your attention on yourself? By asking, “What am I?” or, “Who
am I?” Simply ask, “Who am I?” when anything takes place in your life that you wish to change. Do not try to change the thing that is disturbing you. Even if you do it’ll pop up somewhere else. Go right to the source. “What is the source of my depression? I am. I am depressed. Who is the I that is depressed? Where does it come from?” You never answer. You just have a listening attitude when you ask the question. Then the answer comes back to you saying, “The depression comes to me. I feel it. I have it.” Then you have to realize that it is the I that has it, because you just said, “I have it.” So the I has the problem, not you.

It is always your personal I that has the problem. It has absolutely nothing to do with you. Just understanding this, awakens you. I is not the self. The personal I is the ego. So when you say, “I don’t feel good, I don’t feel happy, I am worried,” or anything else in life, even when you say, “I feel good, I feel wonderful,” you’re still talking about your personal I. And your personal I is part of the world of duality.

Therefore when you say, “I feel good in the morning,” the first thing that comes along that you don’t like you say, “I feel bad.”
You do not want to use that method. What you want to say is to yourself, “This has nothing to do with me. I feels bad. I feels good.” That’s not bad English, just showing you how to talk to yourself. I is separate from you. You have nothing to do with I.

Just being able to see that resolves your problem. If you will try it you will see I’m right. When you get depressed, when you feel out of sorts, when you feel something is wrong, when you feel angry, or whatever,
ask yourself, “Who feels this? I do.” And then realize, “I have nothing to do with myself.”

Your perfection is always shining. You are pure consciousness. You are not the personal I. Let the personal I have all the problems it chooses. It has nothing to do with you. But observe for yourself. Become the witness to the fact that the personal I has the problem, and not you. That’s all you have to do. Just watch it and look, intelligently, and see where the problem comes from.

The Collected Works of Robert Adams.
The Fourth State of Consciousness.