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We’re being trained through our incarnations–trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.

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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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God Heart Mindset Philosophy Understand
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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Identify Live Present Time World
In mystical traditions, it is one’s own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric.
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Experience Mystery Philosophy
If you observe well, your own heart will answer.
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Heart Spiritual Yourself
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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Life Moments Ourselves Yourself
Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.
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Live True
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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Fall Oneself Rise
Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.
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Attitude Character Ourselves Suffering
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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Act Compassionate Justice Peace Philosophy
Don’t think about the past. Just be here now.
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Past Present Thinking
A moment comes when other is no longer other.
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Moments Philosophy
Just relax and trust the process.
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Future Inspirational Success Trust
If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.
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Home Thinking Yourself
Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.
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Attitude God Yourself
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
Whose presence reveals how subtle is the path of Love.
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Love Path Presence
It’s all real and it’s all illusory: that’s awareness.
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Illusion Philosophy Reality
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
A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there’s work to be done.
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Attachment Feeling Philosophy Yourself
I’m not interested in being a lover. I’m interested in only being love.
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Deep Love Myself
If you want to be surrounded by Souls, become identified with your Soul. It takes one to know!
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Identify Oneself Soul Yourself
The next message you need is always right where you are.
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Inspirational Right Yourself
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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Attitude Different Live Soul
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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Experience Important Negative Oneself Path
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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Control Growth Yourself
We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
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Silence Word World
Meditation raises the question: Who are we really?
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Human Philosophy Spiritual

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