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"What you are in essence is self-shining, pure intelligence. The very idea of shining implies a movement. Movement is energy. So, I call it 'pure intelligence-energy'. It is shining through your eyes. You cannot say what it is, and you cannot negate it either. It is 'no thing'. It cannot be objectified. It ever expresses as that living, vibrant sense of presence, which translates through the mind as the thought 'I am'. The primary thought 'I am' is not the reality. It is the closest the mind or thought can ever get to reality, for reality to the mind is inconceivable. It is no thing. Without the thought 'I am', is it stillness? Is it silence? Or is there a vibrancy about it, a livingness, a self-shining-ness? All these expressions are mental concepts or pointers towards it, but the bottom line is that you know that you are. You cannot negate that knowing that you are. It is not a dead, empty, silent stillness. It is not about keeping the mind silent, but seeing that what is prior to the mind is the very livingness itself. It is very subtle."

"When you see that that is what you are, then the very subtleness expresses itself. That is the uncaused joy. Nisargadatta puts it beautifully. He puts it in the negative. 'There is nothing wrong any more.' We think that we have to attain something and then stay there. Realize that you have never left it at any time. It is effortless. You don't have to try or strive or grasp or hold. You are That."

- Bob Adamson, from the Preface to What's Wrong With Right Now Unless You Think About It?

An excerpt from Presence-Awareness: Just This and Nothing Else:

Question: (in response to a prior statement) "Yes. That can be tested with the course of time when one faces life. You have faced it. You have seen that, which I appreciate. But I don't know it very well."

Bob: "If you are thinking along those lines, you will never get there. You have got to start with the immediacy of right now and live right now, constantly. Then you will watch it unfold for you. But as soon as you are going into time, which is a mental concept, you will not find the answer in the mind. Because the mind is time."

"The ancients say it is omnipresence. And they mean exactly that. That has come from people down through the ages that have gone into this and have had all sorts of experiences and all sorts of dramas and traumas. But they have lived this, written the scriptures about it, and passed it down from one to another. It worked for them. It has worked for me."

"I saw Nisargadatta. He told me the only way I can help anyone is to take them beyond the need for further help. A simple sentence like that. He pointed out what I am trying to point out to you. I was able to see it, and I haven't needed help from that day to this. I could have said, 'Oh, yeah, that is all right, but what if this happens or what if that happens...'. He would have said to me, 'Full stop!!'"

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