who i am

So what is the purpose of everything? 

Why do you exist? 

To die? Find out. 

Find out for yourself. 

Find the truth for  yourself, for no one can really give it to you. 

You are the power. 

You are the glory. 

You are the universe. 

You are not what you appear to be, but will you not find out? 

Ask yourself. 

When you truly ask yourself, 

“Who am  I?" 

the answer will eventually come. 

You will know. 

But yet most of you are concerned with your material life, and this is what keeps you back from finding yourself. You are concerned with your humanhood. You're concerned with the clothes you are going to wear. You're concerned with the people in your life. You're concerned with your job. 

You're concerned with the world situation. You're concerned with politics, and I could go on, and on and on. 

It is written in the scriptures, “Take no thought of what ye shall eat, what ye shall wear, or anything at all, but think  ye first of the kingdom of God, and all of these things shall be added unto you." 

That is a very wise statement. 

First find yourself. 

First awaken to yourself. 

Then see if you'll be concerned with your body. When you understand who  you are you will see if you'll be concerned with politics, or with the universe, or with anything else. 

Find out who you are first. 

Find yourself. 

Do not go around trying to straighten out your life. You can never straighten your life out, for that's the way life is. 

All of the things that are happening in the world today, have happened before, and before that, and before that, for millions of years. There have been many civilizations on this earth. They came and they went. And now you are here believing that you can make a difference. 

You hear that so much on TV. "I can make a difference.” What about you can make a difference? You are dust in the wind. We like to attach so much importance to ourselves. Our ego is so enlarged. We want to think we're somebody. Remember, after you die, within twenty years or so everybody will forget everything about you. You won't even be remembered. Your children will have children and they will have children, and you will not even be a 

memory. 

Therefore I ask you to find out, 

“Who am I? 

Who am I, really? 

What is my real nature? 

I couldn't possibly be this  body that changes, changes, changes all the time, and then dies. And if I look at the world, the same thing is  happening to the world. It keeps changing, changing, changing, never the same." And we go along with it. Never 

realizing what is happening, we become befuddled, confused. We're trying to make some kind of sense out of  livingness, but it has no sense, for you are not whom you appear to be. 

Consequently, you have to find out who you are by following the I-thought to the source. You have to inquire within 

yourself, 

“To whom do all the thoughts come? 

To whom does the world come? 

To whom does my ego come? 

To  whom does the universe come? 

To whom does God come? 

To whom does everything in this whole universe come?"

And you will realize very soon, 

“It comes to me. I feel it. I think it. I perceive it. I enjoy it sometimes. I fear it. But I  see and feel and think all these things." 

This now gives you an idea of what is going on. You begin to understand that the I is experiencing this world. Not you, but the I. You are not going through these experiences, but the I is. 

Who is this elusive I? 

Where did this I come from? 

Who gave it birth? 

How did it arrive? 

You ponder all these questions, and you finally ask, “But who am I? 

Where did the I come from?" 

Yet you never answer that question. You sit in the silence inquiring, “Where did the I 

come from?" And as thoughts keep coming to you, you inquire, “To whom do they come? Who is thinking these  thoughts? 

I am? Who am I?" This is really the highest way to remove all doubt and set you free. 

Let me remind you again. Do not try to change your thoughts, or to change your life style, or to work on your bad  habits, or to try to remove fear, and the rest of it. Rather you lift your vision high, to the highest, by following the I- thought to its source. And one day you will discover something interesting. Your body will appear to melt, to  dissolve. The world, the universe will appear to dissolve. Your God will appear to dissolve. Everything you stood up  for, everything you have believed in, all of your thoughts, your feelings, your emotions, will dissolve. And you will 

find yourself as omnipresence, all-pervading consciousness. You will discover that you've always been the ultimate  reality, ultimate oneness. You are the I am. You are free. 

You will appear the same. You will look the same. You will not be able to explain this to your friends or family, but  you will become one of the few that have transcended the world. There will no longer be an ego or mind or a thinker  left. You will know and experience unalloyed happiness, total bliss. No thing will ever disturb you again. 

Yet you will not sit still. The body will appear to move and do things. Yet you will know beyond a shadow of a doubt that 

you are not the body. You have awakened. You have become free. 

~ The Collected Works of Robert Adams Volume 1