Robert Adams

 "You were born to be happy, so-to-speak. You were born to have peace and love and joy in your life, but you're seeing something else. All of the power is within you. You have the choice to see whatever you like. Whatever you see you become. Whatever you believe you become. Whatever you think you become. Look back in retrospect on your life and see if what I am saying is not true.

There are no mistakes. No mistakes have ever been made, none are being made and none will ever be made. Everything is in its right place right now, everything. You are in your right place. You may hate the place you're in. You may hate your job. You may hate your environment. You may hate lots of things. But you're in your right place because you put yourself there. How else would you get there? Life is not chance.

You didn't get there by chance. You got there by your actions, your belief systems, your thoughts, your vision. This is what put you where you are today. If you don't like where you are, change your mind. That's all you have to do, is change your mind. When you change your mind you then get rid of your mind. It begins by taking a good look at yourself. You have to be totally honest with yourself.

If you're not totally honest with yourself you're defeating your whole purpose. You have to inquire within yourself, 'How did I get into this position? What caused me to be the way I am?' Accept yourself as being responsible for being where you are and what you are. Once you accept yourself as being responsible for your actions and responsible for who you are, then you make an about face and know the truth about yourself.

Once you accept yourself as being responsible for your actions and responsible for who you are, then you make an about face and know the truth about yourself. I-am parabrahman. I-am the absolute reality. Never was I born. Never can I die. I-am not the body nor the mind nor the doer. I-am pure consciousness, all-pervading. Fire cannot burn me. Water cannot drown me. No harm can ever come to me. For I am not what I appear to be.

How wonderful this is. You should spend all of your spare time thinking of these things. Most of us do not like to be alone without people around us, without the radio playing, without the TV playing, yet you have to face yourself someday. Why not do it now? Sit by yourself for a half hour and see if you can do it. When you're getting depressed or feeling bad, sit by yourself, no noise just yourself. And watch the thoughts that come to you.

You will see how uncontrolled your mind really is. Some of us believe we've got it together. Yet we're afraid to sit by ourselves with nothing to do. Try staying up all night sometimes, just sitting, doing nothing, watching your thoughts, watching your emotions, observing yourself. This will explain to you how disciplined you are, how spiritual you are, by what happens."