Robert Adams - Everything that appears is an image

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Everything that appears is an image. An image that appears on the Reality of life. There's Reality, Consciousness, and all of the vicissitudes of the world that go on all the time are superimposed on this Consciousness, like a chalkboard.

 

Images are drawn on the chalkboard. It never affects the chalkboard. They are erased. New images are drawn. The new images never affect the chalkboard. No thing affects the chalkboard. The chalkboard remains the same, whether you decide to draw a fire, a hurricane, a murder, a famine, death, or whatever you decide to draw. Wholeness, health, peace, birth, anything. They are all imposters. The chalkboard never changes.

 

Always think of yourself as the chalkboard. And all the things that go on in this world, try to feel them as images on the chalkboard that change. Change continuously. This will help you. It will help you to understand that you are not the conditioning that goes on in your mind. You are not what your eyes show you in this world. You are not the feelings you feel. You are not the things that you hear. The things that you taste. Those are all the images.

 

You are totally absolute freedom. Total harmony and joy. This is your true nature. Abide in this truth and become free.

 

~ taken from SILENCE OF THE HEART - Dialogues with Robert Adams