If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible.
RAM DASSIt’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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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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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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When we’re identified with Awareness, we’re no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time.
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Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.
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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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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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The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
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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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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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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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You base your faith on experience, your faith is
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Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.
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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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The world is won by those who let it go.
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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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