Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.
RAM DASSIt 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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Trust the messages coming from your heart and intuition.
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Just relax and trust the process.
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The dance goes from realizing that you’re separate (which is the awakening) to then trying to find your way back into the totality of which you are not only a part, but which you are.
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I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.
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If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.
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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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Once you have drunk from the water of unconditional love, no other well can satisfy your thirst. The pangs of separation may become so intense that seeking the affection of the Beloved becomes an obsession.
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Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.
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Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor 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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Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.
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Most of us are so caught in righteousness, we’re afraid of truth.
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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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The game is not about becoming somebody, it’s about becoming nobody.
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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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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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A moment comes when other is no longer other.
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As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can’t see how it is.
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You two are together in the stars, but not in this world, in this life.
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Knowledge all by itself, without deep wisdom, ends up becoming despair.
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Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.
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I can do nothing for you but work on myself, you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!
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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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It’s very hard to grow because it’s difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we’ve invested so heavily.
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You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.
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Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.
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