The most exquisite paradox, as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can’t have it. The minute you don’t want power, you’ll have more than you ever dreamed possible.
RAM DASSIn most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.
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By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another.
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The secret isn’t that you’re not being told. The secret is that you’re not able to hear.
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Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts, if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way.
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Meditation raises the question: Who are we really?
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Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.
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We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
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We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.
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I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion–and where it isn’t, that’s where my work lies.
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Just relax and trust the process.
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Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act.
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Early in the journey you wonder how long the journey will take and whether you will make it in this lifetime. Later you will see that where you are going is here, and you will arrive now, so you stop asking.
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My life is a creative act–like a painting, or a concerto.
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The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it-just don’t get lost in it.
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The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.
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Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.
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