The secret to peace-of-mind is to not identify with anything other than your true self.
Robert AdamsWhen you abide in the I you're abiding in the ego. The I is really the ego, the small I. It turns into the Self eventually.
Robert AdamsHow can we hope, after all, to see a tree or rock or clear north sky if we do not adopt a little of their mode of life, a little of their time? if the time it takes to cross space is a way by which we define it, then to arrive at a view of space โin no timeโ is to have denied its reality
Robert AdamsAmong the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence.
Robert AdamsAll these years you've been searching and looking and trying to change things, trying to add thing onto yourself, trying to acquire things when you have been the source of everything to begin with. Everything you've been looking for has been within yourself you have been that. You then begin to surrender everything to yourself. You surrender all of your thoughts, all of your feelings, you surrender all of your desires, all of your wants to the Self. You pull it in all inwardly.
Robert Adams