What is going on in your mind right now? What kind of thoughts are you allowing to come through you? Notice that most of you cannot sit still for even a minute without thoughts going through your mind. … There are thoughts that are constantly going through your mind. These thoughts never leave you. They are there all the time. As long as you have these thoughts, you can never have peace or happiness.

It makes no difference if they are good thoughts or bad thoughts. It doesn’t make any difference whatsoever. They’re all thoughts. They come from the same source and all thoughts are part of delusion, part of the maya, part of the experience. If you can only remember this: To find true happiness, real peace, you simply have to get rid of your thoughts. Stop the thoughts from coming to you.

You cannot stop the thoughts by being in conflict with them, remember this also. No conflict. Again by conflict I mean, do not try to work on your thoughts to stop them forcibly. As an example, by changing your mind by trying to think good thoughts. By trying to think good thoughts to replace bad thoughts you are in conflict with your mind.

But when you observe your thoughts, when you watch your thoughts, without reacting to them, then you are on the right track. When you become angry, do not fall into the trap of identifying with anger. Do not identify with the anger but watch yourself becoming angry. Take a step backwards if you can and observe yourself becoming angry. Watch yourself, always watch yourself. Observe yourself constantly. That’s the way to work with yourself.

Robert Adams