Robert Adams
American advaita teacher and direct disciple of Ramana Maharshi. Born in New York City with the spontaneous capacity for samadhi, he traveled to India at seventeen and spent the last three years of Ramana's life with him. After decades of wandering, he settled in Los Angeles in the 1980s and held quiet satsangs with a small circle until his death from Parkinson's in 1997. His teachings — gathered in Silence of the Heart — point relentlessly to the Self as the only reality, and to self-inquiry as the most direct path home.
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Quotes by Robert Adams
97 quotes“Be quiet. Awareness reveals all.”
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“You are the sky. Thoughts are clouds. Don't mistake one for the other.”
awarenessSatsang Transcripts
“Truth is silent. Mind is loud. Choose where to live.”
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“The Self is the only reality. Everything else is a dream.”
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“Stay in I-am. The I-am dissolves into pure I.”
I-amSatsang Transcripts
“You cannot become what you already are. You can only stop pretending.”
identitySilence of the Heart
“In stillness, the Self is. In motion, the Self is. Always, the Self is.”
selfSilence of the Heart
“The mind is a tool. Don't let it be the master.”
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“Nothing real can be threatened. The real is what you are.”
realSatsang Transcripts
“Awareness is the witness of all states. Awareness is not a state.”
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“The whole search is to find the searcher.”
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“Even sleep is awareness. Even dreaming is awareness.”
awarenessSatsang Transcripts
“Silence is not the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of God.”
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“You are the I before the thought 'I'.”
selfSilence of the Heart
“In the heart-cave, the Self shines as the I-am.”
heartSatsang Transcripts
“Don't seek experiences. Seek the experiencer.”
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“What does not change in any experience? That is the Self.”
selfSilence of the Heart
“Liberation is not for someone. Liberation is from the someone.”
liberationSatsang Transcripts
“Awareness has no qualities. Awareness is the qualityless.”
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