Nothing is coming from outside

''When your mind begins to think, catch it, put an end to it by shifting
consciously to your breath or go for a walk or do something that redirect your
attention.

Many of you are still under the impression that you come to hear lectures,
talks. Let me ask you, how many lectures, how many talks have you been to all
of your life? And what has it done for you? 
It may have simply added more confusion. 

Always remember what you are trying to do. 
You 're not trying to add more knowledge to your ignorance. 
You 're trying to empty yourself of all your knowledge, 
all of your ignorance, everything that you have accumulated.
You want to become empty. 

Yet most people seem to go to different teachers, read many books, and they
add on. They keep adding, adding, adding, adding, adding. 
Yet the day must come in your life, when you stand naked before God, so-to-
speak, when you have no crutches to hold onto. 
All the books are gone, there are no more teachers for you, there is no one to
ask for help, there is no one to ask if you're on the right path. 
It is then that your sadhana actually begins. Ponder this very well. 
Your sadhana, your spiritual practice does not begin when you've gone to many
teachers and you've read many books. 
It actually begins when you give up everything. 

Thats when real sadhana begins, when you have surrendered everything, when
you've emptied yourself of all knowledge, all desires for liberation. 
When you have become an empty shell, then your spiritual life begins. 
Until that time you're only playing games with yourself.''

~Robert Adams~

Robert Adams (January 21, 1928 – March 2, 1997) was an American Advaita teacher. In later life, Adams held
satsang with a small group of devotees in California, US