You are in your right place right now. Going through those experiences that are necessary for you. The worst thing you can do is to condemn yourself and your lot. This just pulls you deeper into maya [illusion]. Be happy where you are. Never compare yourself with anyone.

Be yourself just the way you are. Be thankful for what you are and where you are. It is only by being thankful, by acceptance that you begin to let go of your humanity. Every time you resist you’re accruing greater karma to you. Every time you try to stick up for your rights you are accruing greater karma to you.

And you will always have rights to stick up for. Only the nature of them will change. But you will be sticking up for your rights all of your life. And then you will take up another body and continue doing the same thing. It’ll never end.

Robert Adams

That’s how you conquer your mind. By being aware of it, and no longer responding to it, no longer to react to the mind. Something that usually makes you angry, before you’d respond, and you’d want to win the argument, but now your reaction is no reaction. You simply smile and you watch. When your mind sees there’s no response it will become weaker and weaker, until it disappears.

It’s just like arguing with a person. What happens if you stop arguing? The person goes away. They don’t know what to think. They just won’t have anything to do with you. They just leave. So when you stop responding to your thoughts your mind will go away, and become weaker, and weaker, and weaker, until there is no mind.

Robert Adams

The ‘I’ in itself is pure harmony, joy, happiness. But when you identify the ‘I’ with your body-mind, it becomes the personal I which doesn’t even exist. But you’re making it exist. You’re identifying with it. Why do you want to identify with your personal I? Your personal I never existed. Why have you befriended it? Why do you keep giving it power? Why do you make it grow?

Robert Adams

It is only when we grow up and we become babbling idiots. And we start judging, choosing, coming to conclusions about good and bad, right or wrong, this or that. We start comparing and go through the whole nonsense. This is what keeps us back. This is what prevents us from waking up, our thoughts. If only we were like the tree, like a flower, it grows wherever you plant it, it doesn’t say to you, “I’d rather be planted across the street. Somebody else’s garden.” It accepts whatever is done to it and grows into a beautiful flower.

Take a look at yourself, all of your prejudices, all of your dislikes, all of the things you believe are wrong with the world. Who are you to believe anything is wrong with this world? Did you create this world? You had absolutely nothing to do with it. You find yourself as a guest. We have to co-habit with the trees, with the flowers, with the animals, with the minerals, with the people. We’re not here to change anything one iota. It is because of man changing things that he suffers. You have to learn to leave things alone, to leave ourselves alone. Do not be harsh with yourself. Start practicing this, being calm, peaceful, relaxed.” Robert Adams

Don’t you see?
If the personal I is gone there is no body, there’s no mind, there’s only consciousness.
But as long as you believe there is a body, there’s a personal I. Therefore you cannot say, “I am consciousness appearing as a body.” That’s wrong. Consciousness does not appear as any body. It doesn’t have to.

Consciousness is always self-contained pure awareness. It is something we cannot even discuss, for there are no words to describe it. It’s something you have to find out for yourself. But I can tell you for sure, it has nothing to do with your body.
It has nothing to do with your experiences. It has nothing to do with karma.
It has nothing to do with your god.
It has nothing to do with the universe.
It has nothing to do with self-realization or liberation.
It just is.

And it is beyond our finite thinking. There are no words to describe the infinite.

~ Robert Adams

…from TS, ‘The Fourth State of Consciousness’ February 7, 1991

NOTE: Personal “I” = Physical “I”. Robert Adams is clearly emphasizing we are NOT that “I”. (Rupert Spira drops the personal & physical distinction and likens “I” to God, Awareness, Oneself.) DrRobinStarbuck

The best course for you is silence. There’s absolutely nothing to debate. There’s really nothing to think about. There’s nothing to argue about. In the silence everything will be revealed to you. All you really have to do is to keep still. I know that’s hard for some of you, for you keep chatting away all your life. Yet if you would learn to keep still, you would make tremendous spiritual progress.

Robert Adams

All is well. There are no mistakes. You’re in your right place, right now. When I say you are in your right place, do not think about where you appear to be, whether rich or poor, sick or healthy, sad or happy. This is not your right place. Your right place is devoid of all these things. Your right place is boundless space, choice-less awareness.

You are the God that you’ve always been looking for. You and you alone are the Sage, and the saint, and the awakened being, that you’ve been striving to attain. You are that right now. This is your right place, and there is no other place.

Robert Adams

Surrender yourself totally. How do you surrender yourself? By letting go, letting go of all the concepts, letting go of all the ideas, letting go of the beliefs, letting go of all your prejudices, all of your emotions. Just drop it. If you can do this, all of your sadhana, all of your meditations, all of your prayers, are no longer necessary.

Robert Adams

Do not believe what the world tells you, what the newspapers tell you, what the TV tells you. Separate yourself from all these things. Become free from attachments. The world in itself is neither good nor bad. It is an appearance. You can play in the universe, you can suffer in the universe. It’s all how you see it.

Do not react to it, whether you’re going through good times or bad times. They’re both impostors. Look to your Self. You are the one. … You are beyond words and thoughts, beyond gods and goddesses, beyond everything and anything that you can ever think about.

Robert Adams

Silence is another way of saying to keep your mind stayed on God all the time. God is the silence and you are that. Feel the silence right now. You can feel it. It’s a thing of beauty. You know when you’re getting into the true silence, you begin to become happier, and happier and happier for no reason. It makes no difference what’s going on in the world.

The world is in one place and you’re in another place. In the deep silence you are identifying with the substratum of creation. Always remember to go into the silence. A Sage is always in the silence. A Sage may be talking, listening, partaking of activities, but to the Sage there’s only silence.

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)