Everything is Consciousness – everything. I don’t know what Consciousness is, but I am That. Consciousness is a no-thing. It is nothing you can pin down. Consciousness is Silence. Consciousness is Ultimate Oneness, Pure Intelligence.

Robert Adams

“This world can never make you happy, it’s impossible. It may appear to make you happy for a while because you’re gaining something that you want. But it will only last a short time. True happy…true happiness comes from nothing. When your happiness arises from nothingness then you’re really happy, because nothing made you happy and nothing can take it away.

If something makes you happy then if something take it away you will be miserable. But if you learn to achieve happiness from nothing this is everlasting. It will never leave you because there is nothing to change.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

THERE IS NOTHING WRONG

There are no accidents. Everything is right just the way it Is. There are no mistakes. You are in your right place going through those experiences that are necessary for you. There is nothing wrong.

When you begin to appreciate this you will realize that the universe does not punish you, there is no God that punishes you, there is no world that is against you.

Things appear to happen in your lives because it’s necessary for your spiritual unfoldment at this time. What appears to be bad is really a blessing in disguise. What appears to be good may be a hindrance to you. This is why you should never judge yourself. You have to have faith in the powers that be. As you have faith enough you will become happy, just by being yourself.

To the extent that you see everything wrong in your life, to that extent do you perpetuate the condition, and it becomes difficult for you not to react. It becomes most difficult for you to practice self-inquiry, for you are letting the world show you how things are, and you are responding to the world. This is a great mistake.

The secret is to allow the world to show you what it will, and for you not to react to anything. Have no opinion for or against. Just by doing this alone, you come to the state where you can see and feel that the whole world, the whole universe, is simply an emanation of your own mind.

Forget what you read in the papers, what you watch on TV. Do not take the world too seriously. And above all do not take your life too seriously. There is nothing that wants to hurt you. You can never know your self as the self if you keep reacting to your world. Absolute reality is only revealed to you when you begin to see that the world is an image. Thoughts become things. They have no reality of their own, but through your thinking process you have
given them life, and then you begin to feel the pressure of the life form that you have created.

Compare yourself to no one. You are unique in your own right. Everyone appears on this earth because of karmic conditions, and you can never know that karma does not exist until you stop reacting to it. What’s the use of my telling you that nothing exists, that karma does not exist, that the world does not exist, that the universe does not exist, if you continue to react to conditions. You never know how much time you’ve got left in your body, so to speak. You may drop your body tomorrow, next week, next year. And if you do not realize the truth about yourself, you will continue to come back again and again, you will appear to come back again and again. You will be stuck on the wheel, until the time comes when you give up your reaction.

Think how many times today you were disappointed over something, or despondent, or angry, or upset, and you
believe that you have the right to be that way. It was because of this or because of that, or because of someone, because of something. Yet you are forgetting that everything is your friend. The mineral kingdom, the vegetable kingdom, the animal kingdom, the human kingdom, everything is your friend. Especially your so-called enemies, for that’s the motivation for you to see yourself in action. Your so-called enemy is really your best friend. The person you don’t get along with is doing you a favor, for he or she is teaching you not to react.

There are many lessons to learn, but for whom? For you? Who are you? As long as you believe you are a human being and you are part of the earth, then you do have many lessons to learn. But as soon as you give up the idea of your humanhood and start investigating the truth, that you are never born and you never die, until that time you will appear to suffer. You will appear to go through predicaments, through situations, through rebirth, through different experiences.

But I say to you tonight that you do not have to do this. You merely have to recognize that your personal I is the
culprit. It is not you. It is your idea of I. It is the I-thought that causes every problem in your life. It is the I-thought that causes you misery, unhappiness, misunderstanding and whatever. You merely have to destroy, annihilate, the I-thought.

This is the reason you came back to this planet, so it appears, to find the I and destroy it. This is what you should have been concentrating on all the time. This is your purpose. There is no other purpose.

~ The Collected Works of Robert Adams.
There is nothing wrong.

“The substratum of all existence is bliss. You come from bliss and you go to bliss. It is your real nature.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)