Things are not supposed to be any way. Things just are.

Things are not supposed to be any way. Things just are. 

They have no substance, they have no reality. 

As you respond to conditions you are simply wasting your energy,
when you can be using that energy to uncover your Self, 

to discover your own reality.

What are you doing with your life?
How do you spend your days? 

The appearance is that your body is getting older and older,
and if you're still judging by appearances
you try to look younger and younger by putting creams on your face,
by exercising day and night, by buying the finest clothes.
It's like beating a dead horse. 

The so-called body is not meant to last.
As soon as you were born you began to die.

Therefore find out. 

Who was born? Who dies? 

Who has experiences? 

Who is going through this entire mess? 

Who needs it? Who wants it? 

Wake up!

~Robert Adams - T34: One Self, One Consciousness