This just about covers everything I've ever learned. Thank you, Robert, wherever you are... Oh wait, you're right here!
"Always
remember, the true teacher is in your heart. The real teacher is within
you. A person who has gone within for many years and become silent
within, will be attracted to the same silence without. They will come to
the place that agrees with the within. When you have attained a degree
of spiritual knowledge within, you will meet the Sage or the teacher
without. It's the same difference. There's no difference whatsoever.
But those of you who shop for teachers, who shop for gurus, who go
shopping for spiritual life, will always be disappointed, for you will
find some fault wherever you go. And again, the fault that you find, is
also within yourself...
"So we begin to feel that there's a living Presence within us. As we work with this feeling, that Presence turns out to be us. It turns out that we are not merely the body, or the mind, or the do-er. We are this living Presence. There's no name for it. It's beyond words and thoughts. But it is there, shining in all its glory. You feel the freedom, the love, the joy of it."
~Robert Adams
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