It’s only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.
RAM DASSFree yourself from the illusion of good and bad days. Labeling time makes us nostalgic of the past and demanding of the future. There is only here and now. Let it be.
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You base your faith on experience, your faith is
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Let’s trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let’s lay down our righteousness and just be together.
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Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
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We’re here to awaken from the illusion of separateness
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The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.
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Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?
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Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.
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A moment comes when other is no longer other.
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Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
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I didn’t arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.
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Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.
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I’m not interested in being a lover. I’m interested in only being love.
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If you want to be surrounded by Souls, become identified with your Soul. It takes one to know!
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The game is not about becoming somebody, it’s about becoming nobody.
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Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.
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