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.
RAM DASSSpiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.
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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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Meditation raises the question: Who are we really?
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Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.
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The world is won by those who let it go.
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Just relax and trust the process.
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Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.
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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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Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?
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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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The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.
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Don’t think about the past. Just be here now.
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Who in all his works sees God, in truth he goes to God.
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You base your faith on experience, your faith is
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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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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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