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Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.

Ram Dass

Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.
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Mystery Religion
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
The freer I get, the higher I go. The higher I go, the more I see. The more I see, the less I know. The less I know, the more I’m free.
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Freedom Myself Philosophy See
If you observe well, your own heart will answer.
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Heart Spiritual 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
Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying.
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Deep Philosophy Yourself
You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into.
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Force Myself Nature Reality Transformation World Yourself
You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.
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Love Person Philosophy Yourself
To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.
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Experience Explanation Himself Necessary Possible
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
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
As one individual changes, the system changes.
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Change Oneself
Just because you are seeing divine light, experiencing waves of bliss, or conversing with Gods and Goddesses is no reason to not know your zip code.
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Experience God Light Reason See Yourself
In mystical traditions, it is one’s own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric.
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Experience Mystery Philosophy
The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.
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Resistance Suffering
If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible.
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Escape Freedom Possible Thinking Yourself

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