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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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The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.
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Resistance Suffering
What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.
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Growth Philosophy Yourself
Don’t think about the past. Just be here now.
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Past Present Thinking
Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.
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Dance Fear Love Ourselves Reflection
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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Live Love Relationship Start
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
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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Journey Path Spiritual True
Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.
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Distance Emotional Ocean
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
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
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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Company Faith Inspirational Strong Yourself
My life is a creative act–like a painting, or a concerto.
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Art Creation Design Life
Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying.
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Deep Philosophy Yourself
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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Affection Love Satisfaction Yourself
In mystical traditions, it is one’s own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric.
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Experience Mystery Philosophy
Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.
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Enough Ourselves Spiritual Transformation

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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