Robert Adams on what is real and what is not.
You believe the world to be real. You believe your body, your mind to be real. You believe that everything your senses show you and tell you is real. That's a lie. And you believe ultimate reality, perfection, infinite love, absolute awareness doesn't exist or if it exists you don't know anything about it. The truth is it's just in reverse. What you cannot comprehend. What you cannot see, touch, feel, smell, taste is the reality. And what you've been worshipping all these years, a home, a couch, a chair, a car, money, the body, is false. It's false because you have to leave it in the end. That which is not true all of the time cannot be real. And everything in this universe changes to something else. No thing lasts forever. Therefore no thing is real. This is the reason we have this world in the precarious condition it's in today. For people have been believing in things that change, things that come to an end and you're always disappointed. The life that appears to you today can only lead to disappointment due to the fact it has to change.
Yet there is something that is unchangeable, unmutable. Something you can rely upon. Something that will always take care of you and save you and watch over you. And that something is your Self. You are the one. Your Self is not your body or your mind or your thoughts or your opinions. Your Self is absolute reality. Your Self is existence, knowledge, bliss. You are that Self.