Best of best quote that only should be read if needed at all.. guru showed me the path

When you stop searching and you calm down and you put your books away, and you confront yourself and see what you are all about, that will bring about bliss faster than anything you can ever imagine or ever do. ~ Robert Adams




Don't hold onto the point that you have something to overcome, because you'll always have something to overcome if you do that. When your mind seems to resist, don't feed it any more power by thinking its resisting. Its a drawback. But simply inquire: "to whom does it resist?" And don't think about it but just inquire. Remember, do not believe that there's anything that you have to overcome for you'll spend eternity overcoming. There is nothing that exists that you have to overcome. ~ Robert Adams



How do you make progress? By practicing the methods I share with you. By practicing Self-Inquiry. By watching as you go through life's experiences and not reacting. Watching yourself become depressed. Watching yourself become angry. Do not deny it, but observe it. And if you observe yourself correctly in that calm way, you can ask yourself: "Who becomes angry? Who is feeling depressed?" And follow it through. Do this over and over and over again, as many times as you have to. One day, the anger will leave you, the depressions will leave you, your thoughts 

Think of the problems you're thinking about right now. Think. Who has a problem? Your real self can't have a problem, because that's bliss consciousness. The problem comes to the ego. Only the ego has a problem, nothing else. Everything is free, happy, no problems. Find out who you are. Discover yourself. Jump within yourself. Be yourself. Become free. Nothing exists as it appears, nothing. Everything is consciousness, and everything is an image superimposed in consciousness. All of your thoughts, whatever is going through your mind, has no basis, no case, no ego. Everything you see is a projection of your own mind. You can put a stop to it by finding the source of your thoughts. Where do your thoughts come from? Find out. Go within. Ask yourself. ~ Robert Adams


The only way you will ever awaken is through silence, not through analyzation of facts. Not by sorting out good and bad, but through simple silence, letting go. Letting go of all thoughts, all the hurts, all the dogmas and concepts. Letting go of these things daily. Whichever method suits you use it. But by all means do something. Do not allow a day to go by where you do not give up your identification with the world. Either through surrender, or through Self-Inquiry, or through mindfulness, or through observation. Do whatever you have to do. But do not let a day go by when the world has a hold of you and you do nothing. If you can take the time to sit down in a chair and practice these methods. If you have no time to sit down in a chair, do them while you are working or whatever you are doing. There is always something you can do. There is no such thing as I don't have any time. You have enough time to do all the foolish things you do. (laughter) So take the time to do this also. ~ Robert Adams

Still the mind. You still the mind by not reacting. By watching, by looking, by seeing but not reacting. You sit in the silence observing your mind thinking. Observing your thoughts. Observing your feelings. And you leave them alone. You no longer try to change anything. You stop following your thought patterns. As we discussed before you "Drop it!" Whatever comes to you, you simply drop it! You no longer go along with your thoughts. You catch yourself every time the thoughts start thinking. You keep remembering to catch yourself. To catch yourself thinking. ~ Robert Adams

There is no one called 'you'. You don't exist. No thing that you can imagine exists. Realization doesn't exist. Liberation doesn't exist. It doesn't exist because you've got to think about it. And of course everything you think about is false imagination. You can only confirm this truth in the silence. ~ Robert Adams



The first thing to understand is that everything that has transpired in your life has been necessary. No matter how it looks, no matter what has happened, everything has been necessary. The second thing to understand is, everything has been preordained. In other words, everything was supposed to happen the way it happened. There were no mistakes. The third thing to understand is that the first two things are all a pack of lies, for these things do not even exist in Reality. ~ Robert Adams


It's so easy to become peaceful. It's so easy to become loving, blissful, happy. You just have to reject all those thoughts that come to you — all those thoughts, all those feelings, all the emotions. Just reject them. You reject them by not giving them power. You give them power every time you let them feel something inside of you. When your thoughts take on a feeling nature you give them power. But when you refuse to take on that feeling nature, the thoughts will disappear. In other words, you are the one that gives them power. You are the one that creates your condition, be it good or bad. You are the one who sees the world the way you see it. See only yourself, see only reality. See only emptiness. It's really very simple to do this. Just sit the way you're sitting now and observe. Do not analyze, don't try to change your thoughts, do not fight your thoughts, just observe them, watch them, look at them, and when you're ready you can ask the question, "To whom do these thoughts come?" ~ Robert Adams


Even when you think, "What is the right method for me to use to become free?", that keeps you back, that spoils it. Keep your mind empty. The method will come to you by its




There's only one way to become liberated, and that is to awaken, just to awaken, just wake up, just as you do in the morning when you wake up from sleep. You were in a dream world and you woke up. In the same way you awaken to your Self. The way to do this is to be at satsang, to surrender to the Self. When you surrender to the Self you're surrendering to life. You're no longer thinking "This has to work out this way. This has to work out that way. This has to be improved. I've got to read this book. I've got to go see this teacher." True surrender is allowing your heart, your spiritual heart, to take over and you have nothing to do and nothing to say. All of the practices are incidental. Sadhana is important to make you come to the realization that you have to wake up. That's all sadhana is for. It's for no other reason. Sadhana, spiritual practices, do not wake you up by themselves. They have no awakening powers. But they put your mind to rest. When your mind is at rest you awaken.~ Robert Adams
There are a bunch of geniuses doing what they're supposed to be doing on this earth like everybody else is doing. There are people suffering, there are people creating, that is all part of maya, the grand illusion. We are to get beyond this. Maya exists for words to be spoken to explain it. Otherwise there would be just plain silence. Maya never existed. It doesn't exist. The self which you speak of doesn't exist. Limitation doesn't exist. Liberation doesn't exist. Bondage doesn't exist. All these things are just words, words, words. Because the silence makes the words seem like words. It's all a dream. The words are a dream, everything is a dream. How I talk like this is a dream, it appears to be real but it's not. There are no appearances. What you are seeking for an experience of an appearance, they have an appearance but I can assure you that the appearance doesn't exist. There never was an appearance. There is absolute void! Absolute reality and consciousness. Pure awareness. Which is absolutely nothing. So nothing exists and you are that. Everything else comes out of your mind that doesn't exist. When you realize that the mind doesn't exist all this will stop. ~ Robert Adams

Most of us believe that we have to stop the mind from thinking and when we stop the mind from thinking liberation comes. This is false. This is false because by trying to stop the mind from thinking you're causing conflicts within yourself and we want to avoid conflict. What we want to do is to observe ourselves thinking. To watch intelligently, the mind thinking thoughts, about the past, about the future and remove the barrier between the thoughts and the Self. See the difference? You never try to stop the mind from thinking. Your mind appears to be stronger than you are and it will always win and you become disgusted and discouraged. Allow the mind to do what it wants. Never try to stop it. Just realize within yourself that there is a barrier like a wall between you and your thoughts, between you and your mind and allow the wall to disappear. Then there will be no conflict. The thoughts will actually merge into the Self and you will become free. Always try to avoid conflict. ~ Robert Adams

Notice when I stop talking, how quiet it becomes, in your mind. This is the state I'm referring to, that state in between thoughts, where there is nothing going on, in that second, in that moment, when the mind is total quiet, the thoughts are not moving any longer. This is your true Self, in that moment in between thoughts. Stay in that moment. Learn to put yourself in that state, whether you are in the market place or you are in a temple, wherever you are, learn to be still. It makes no difference what is going on around you. It makes no difference what other people are doing. You be still. When you are still, then there's peace. When you are still, there's happiness. Can you ever imagine a person who is being happy all the time, for no reason whatsoever. Most of us have been taught that to be happy we have to receive something good. We have to have something nice happen to us to be happy, otherwise we are miserable. Yet the truth is, happiness is your very nature, unalloyed happiness, eternal happiness, forever happiness. ~ Robert Adams


Trying to become something is the first mistake you make. Trying to overcome your problems is the second mistake you make. Even trying to understand reality is a mistake. The only thing left to do is to let go of everything else you've got, your fears, your frustrations, your concepts, your ideas, your ego. Everything must be given up. There is absolutely nothing to gain. There is absolutely nothing to gain due to the fact that you are that already. Yet you may ask, and rightly so "You mean I shouldn't care about my job, my family, my love for flowers or for mountains or for rivers? I shouldn't care for any of these things?" Mentally, you shouldn't. Your body will continue to do what it does, and will feel better doing it. Everything is given up mentally. When everything is given up mentally, your vasanas, your habits, the things that have held onto you for so long, will automatically break loose, and you will find freedom. ~ Robert A
I always suggest, work on yourself. Don't worry about the words. Transcend the words. Have the experience for yourself, and then there will be nothing to say. But as long as you are a book reader, you never stop reading. There is a time to read, but there is a time to stop also. There's a time to put the books aside and to intensely practice, and give your life up to the practice. ~ Robert Adams


Do not be in conflict with your thoughts and the self. When there is no conflict there are no thoughts. Thoughts only appear because there's conflict. By conflict I mean, you're worrying about getting rid of your thoughts, you're doing sadhana, meditation, pranayamas, japa. All of these things cause conflict. For aren't you saying "I'm doing these things to become liberated. I'm doing these things to become free"? The reason there's a the conflict is because you're already free and liberated. Therefore when you give yourself the information that you have to do something to become liberated, there is immediately conflict. This is the only problem you have. It is your conflict. And this conflict comes from programming when you were a child, from samskaras, from previous existence, things that you took with you, the habits that are inside of you, that you believe you are. This is where the conflict comes from. For it tells you "I'm just a human being, I'm just a frail body. I have to suffer sometimes, sometimes I have to be happy". This is all a lie. There never was a you that has to suffer. There never was a you that has to be happy. There is no one in you who needs to be happy. There is no one in you who needs to be miserable. They are both impostors. So every time you try to exchange negative conditioning to positive conditioning, you're causing conflict. ~ Robert Adams

Catch yourself. What are you thinking about? It's those very thoughts that keep you from awakening. Always catch yourself thinking. And ask yourself: "To whom do these thoughts come?" even if they're good thoughts. It makes no difference. There's something within you that knows what to do. There is a power greater than you that knows how to take care of you without your help. All you've got to do is to surrender to it. Surrender your thoughts, your mind, your ego, to the current that knows the way. It will take care of you. It will take better care of you than you can ever imagine. ~ Robert Adams

When you begin to sit still and you look upon the mind, the thoughts, you witness the thoughts, you watch the thoughts the mind slows down. As you continue witnessing the thoughts, watching the thoughts the mind becomes weaker and weaker and weaker and you become happier and happier and happier. Bliss comes when the mind is at rest. Unalloyed happiness comes when the mind is inactive. As long as the mind is active there will always be problems. For an active mind lives in a world of duality. Good and bad, right and wrong, up and down. Only when the mind is totally transcended will you find real peace. Yet you are already real peace. You are already pure awareness. You are already total joy and harmony. Yet you keep seeking, seeking, seeking, seeking, seeking for something that you already are. ~ Robert Adams

You and I know many people who have been searching for many, many years, twenty years, thirty years, forty years, for the answers to life, for reality, yet they're still in the same place they started twenty years ago. They have gone through all kinds of things. They've been to many places. They met certain teacher, but they're still the same. For they've never really investigated themselves. They say they do. They say they've been working on themselves for years, nothing has happened. But have they really been working on themselves? What they've been doing is sort of just thinking about it a little bit, reading books. But they've never dived deep enough in the Self to find the answers. And this is exactly what you have to do. You have to dive deep, deep, deep within yourself, deeper than you can ever imagine. And the only way you can do this is by giving up the external world, mentally, not physically. In other words, by not reacting to things. To observe things, watch the world go by, leave it alone. It's neither good nor bad. It has nothing to offer you. ~ Robert Adams

Every time you say to yourself: "Who am I?" you are moving a step ahead on the spiritual path. That is all you have to do. "Who am I?" and you will soon discover that the 'I' is not you. The 'I' that you are referring to is not you, it's not anything. It is merely a thought. It has absolutely nothing to do with you. When you think to yourself: "Who am I?" you keep saying I-I to yourself and the 'I' begins to separate from your body. The 'I' begins to become a different type of entity whatsoever, the 'I' begins to disappear. And you keep thinking about the 'I', following the 'I'. You follow the 'I' to the heart. Once the 'I' disappears you are totally free and liberated. So it all begins with you. You are the one. You can either free yourself or put yourself in bondage depending on what you're doing with your life. ~ Robert AdamsWhen your mind begins to think, stop it, catch it, put an end to it. Many of you are still under the impression that you come to hear lectures, talks. Let me ask you, how many lectures, how many talks have you been to all of your life? And what has it done for you? It simply adds more confusion. Always remember what you are trying to do. You're not trying to add more knowledge to your ignorance. You're trying to empty yourself of all your knowledge, all of your ignorance, everything that you have accumulated. You want to become empty. Yet most people seem to go to different teachers, read many books, and they add on. They keep adding, adding, adding, adding, adding. Yet the day must come in your life, when you stand naked before God, so-to-speak, when you have no crutches to hold onto. All the books are gone, there are no more teachers for you, there's no one to ask for help, there's no one to ask if you're on the right path. It is then that your sadhana actually begins. Ponder this very well. Your sadhana, your spiritual practice does not begin when you've gone to many teachers, and you've read many books. It actually begins when you give up everything. That's when real sadhana begins, when you have surrendered everything, when you've emptied yourself of all knowledge, all desires for liberation. When you have become an empty shell, then your spiritual life begins. Until that time you're only playing games with yourself. ~ Robert Adams