It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
RAM DASSOnce 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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Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.
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It’s all real and it’s all illusory: that’s awareness.
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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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Who in all his works sees God, in truth he goes to God.
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The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.
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To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.
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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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Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.
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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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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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In mystical traditions, it is one’s own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric.
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Relationships only work in a spiritual sense when you and I really see that we are one.
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The journey across the great ocean of existence Is a journey inward ever in deeper and deeper and the deeper you get in the more you meet truth.
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Knowledge all by itself, without deep wisdom, ends up becoming despair.
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Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.
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