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In mystical traditions, it is one’s own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric.

Ram Dass

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.
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Control Growth Yourself
Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.
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Change Identify Story
It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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Experience Important Negative Oneself Path
A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there’s work to be done.
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Attachment Feeling Philosophy Yourself
In 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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Human Identity Ourselves Relationship
Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.
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Attitude Character Ourselves Suffering
Our journey is about being more deeply involved in Life and yet less attached to it.
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Attachment Journey Life Ourselves
There’s much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life.
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Life Moments Ourselves Yourself
We’re all just walking each other home.
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Deep Each Other Home Philosophy Walk
Relationships only work in a spiritual sense when you and I really see that we are one.
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Myself Oneself Relationship See Spiritual Yourself
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.
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Dream Give Up Philosophy Possible Power Yourself
You base your faith on experience, your faith is
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Experience Faith Philosophy Yourself
Just because you are seeing divine light, experiencing waves of bliss, or conversing with Gods and Goddesses is no reason to not know your zip code.
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Experience God Light Reason See Yourself
Meditation raises the question: Who are we really?
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Human Philosophy Spiritual
All acts of healing are ultimately our selves healing our Self.
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Act Healing Ourselves
I can do nothing for you but work on myself, you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!
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Growth Myself Self Love Yourself

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