"Truth or Reality cannot be stored, cannot be amassed - it does not accumulate. The value of any insight, understanding, or realization can only be in the ever-fresh presence of the moment. Yesterday's realization is not a bit of good - now it is dead, now it has lost it's vitality. It is useless to try and cling to or hold onto an insight, an understanding, or a realization, for only in it's movement can there be the enabling of ever-fresh and new insights of Truth or Reality to appear. The idea of enlightenment or self-realization as a onetime event or a lasting and permanent state or experience is an erroneous concept. Understand-ING or know-ING is alive in the immediacy which can never be negated. The emphasis is on the activity of know-ING which is going on as the immediacy now - not the dead concept 'I understand' or 'I know'."
- Sailor Bob Adamson's life of alcoholic suffering gave way to nondual spiritual enlightenment. The turning point in Bob's Life was the final quitting of drinking and a question that arose out of that. I won’t say what the question was... Nisargadatta Maharaj was Bob’s primary teacher.
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