Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying.
RAM DASSIt’s all real and it’s all illusory: that’s awareness.
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The next message you need is always right where you are.
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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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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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If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.
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As soon as you give it all up you can have it all
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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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Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.
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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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It’s very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos.
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Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. To me, that’s what the emerging game is all about.
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A relationship starting out as one that awakens love can only remain a living vehicle for love to the extent that it is continually made new or reconsecrated.
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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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Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.
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We’re all just walking each other home.
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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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Trust the messages coming from your heart and intuition.
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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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Knowledge all by itself, without deep wisdom, ends up becoming despair.
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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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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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Grace is at the nexus of love and awareness. There it’s all open and it’s all love.
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When your center is firm, when your faith is strong and unwavering, then it will not matter what company you keep.
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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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Whose presence reveals how subtle is the path of Love.
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The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
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All of a sudden the progress will stop one day, and you will find yourself, as it were, stranded. Persevere. All progress proceeds by such rise and fall. —Vivekananda
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