Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.
RAM DASSI didn’t arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.
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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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The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everybody should follow any one path. Listen to your own truth.
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I didn’t arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.
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Whose presence reveals how subtle is the path of Love.
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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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If you observe well, your own heart will answer.
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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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Most of us are so caught in righteousness, we’re afraid of truth.
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As soon as you give it all up you can have it all
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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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You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.
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If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.
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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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In mystical traditions, it is one’s own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric.
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What we’re seeing out there is the projection of where we’re at-the projection of the clingings of our minds.
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Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.
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The secret isn’t that you’re not being told. The secret is that you’re not able to hear.
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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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You base your faith on experience, your faith is
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We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
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My life is a creative act–like a painting, or a concerto.
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Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.
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If you want to be surrounded by Souls, become identified with your Soul. It takes one to know!
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Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?
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We’re here to awaken from the illusion of separateness
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We’re all just walking each other home.
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