Robert Adams Quotes

I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered that I didn't need to. If the thing is true, why there it is.

To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.

Can you look at a flower without thinking?

If you pay attention to the world, it's an amazing place. If you don't, it's whatever you think it is.

Is it possible to observe without the observer?

I have gone around observing your activities from the outside. Because of this I have also been able to see things to which you have been blind... Every morning you have gone to work, but you have never been fully awake. Of course, you have seen the sun and the moon, the stars in the sky, and everything that moves, but you haven't really seen it at all. It is different for the Joker, because he was put into this world with a flaw: He sees too clearly and too much.

While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see.

You cannot experience what you don't know. And you don't know you are in "heaven" right now because you have not experienced it.

We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.

We are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them.

Don't let your eyes refuse to seeDon't let your ears refuse to hear

I give life to that which I notice. What I don't notice dies.

Mind cannot think without duality. Duality is the way of thinking. In silence, all dualities disappear.

We see only what we have names for.

We have ... dreamed so much and observed so little, that our imaginations have grown larger than the world we live in, and our judgments have dwindled down to a point.

Normally I didn’t see a great deal. I didn’t hear a great deal either. I didn’t pay attention. Strictly speaking I wasn’t there. Strictly speaking I believe I’ve never been anywhere.

Don't think you are looking at me because you are not.

Observe, and in that observation there is neither the "observer" nor the "observed" - there is only observation taking place.

This very rock where we're sitting is a rock because we have been forced to give out attention to it

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.

I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity.

I have definitely had experiences where I can feel the shift from simply living my life to being slightly outside of my life and taking notes.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.