self

There Are No Mistakes

Most people are home watching the presidential debates. We ought to have Jnani debates, where all the Jnanis in the 

world show up. Whoever shows up loses, of course. (laughter)

If only people understood the first principle of Self-realization, which is simply this. Whatever is destined to happen is 

going to happen, no matter how you try to stop it. And whatever is destined not to happen will never happen, no matter 

how much you try to make it happen. Wouldn't it be wonderful if the politicians understood this truth? There would be 

absolutely nothing to worry about, nothing to fear, nothing to conquer, nothing to win, nothing to lose. Everything is 

unfolding the way it should. Everything is in its right place. There are no mistakes. Everything is lovely and beautiful just

the way it is.

If you can only understand this in your own personal life. What you're supposed to go through in this experience, in 

this in carnation, has already been planned for you before you came into this body. Yet you have absolutely nothing to do 

with it, because you are not the body. As long as you think you are a body, you think you're somebody, somebody 

important. Or you think you are a failure, whatever you think about yourself. If you would only turn within and see the 

one Self, then you would never worry about what is going to happen to you at all. For you would realize, there is no you 

for anything to happen to. You are total freedom right now, total liberation, complete Awareness. Yet, you do not believe 

me. You still feel inclined to be a body, a doer. Think of the experiences you went through today, and see if you do not 

believe that you are a doer. How many times did you become angry today? How many times did you feel slighted today? 

How many times did you feel fear, or something is wrong somewhere, or you're not in your right place? This shows you 

that you believe that you are a body. And as long as you believe that you are a body, why not just let go and stop fretting 

and worrying about your body.

The Power that knows the way will take care of you. The One who makes the sun shine, the grass grow, the apples 

grow perfectly on apple trees. The food that sustains us, nourishes us, everything has been lovingly provided for us. 

Have faith.

Trust the Power that knows the way. This is a first step. To have total faith and total trust in the Infinite, the One. You 

may call this God if you want to. Makes no difference what you call it. It is within you. It is without you. It is everywhere.

T. 191 @ Just Be - October 15, 1992

~ SILENCE OF THE HEART

1999 edition

Dialogue with Robert Adams