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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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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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Action Mindset Moments Oneself Ourselves World
Meditation raises the question: Who are we really?
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Human Philosophy Spiritual
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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Compassionate Lie Life Love Myself
Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.
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Important Journey Ourselves
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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Lying Mystery Religion
Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.
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Live True
If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.
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Home Thinking Yourself
In mystical traditions, it is one’s own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric.
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Experience Mystery Philosophy
You base your faith on experience, your faith is
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Experience Faith Philosophy Yourself
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
We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
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Silence Word World
The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everybody should follow any one path. Listen to your own truth.
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Journey Listen Spiritual True
It’s all real and it’s all illusory: that’s awareness.
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Illusion Philosophy Reality
Most of us are so caught in righteousness, we’re afraid of truth.
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Afraid Right Truth
The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.
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Resistance Suffering
Free 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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Bad Freedom Future Goodness Illusion Time Yourself

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