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When you catch on to your awakening, the world does not change. You just see it differently, that's all. You acquire a feeling of immortality. A feeling of divine bliss, so to speak, when things no longer have the power to affect you.

Robert Adams

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Robert Adams
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 8
Photographer
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New Jersey
Robert Hickman Adams
Robert ii Adams
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