“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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“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

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“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)