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Even if somebody tells us something, the hit, the light goes on inside of us, not out there. We learn and understand everything within ourselves.

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There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
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Color Experience See
I just try to keep my heart open. By this, I mean to try not to let my own programmed reaction to things keep me closed down for too long.
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Close Heart Myself Open Program Reaction Try
Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.
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Bliss Drugs Easy Feeling Hard Reality
Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.
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Religious Yoga Yourself
The Presence is our own presence. We are not getting anything from the outside. We already have all we need inside.
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Need Presence Requirement
You can’t manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.
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Circumstance Heart Manipulate Open Right
You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
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Box Thinking Yourself
We all inhabit our lives, in different ways to some degree. We see ourselves a certain way, and based on how we see ourselves, that’s how we see the world.
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Different Live Ourselves See World
You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
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Thinking Way Yourself
The only real protection will come from doing a spiritual practice over a prolonged period of time. Because it retrains us to see the world and ourselves in a different way.
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Different Practice Protection Reality Way
Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?
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Color Imagination See
Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.
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Feeling Plant Practice Seed Yourself
I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.
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Heart Myself Save Time
Don’t give up on your dreams. You can become the person you know you really are.
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Dreams Give Up Known Person
You can never really know what a guru is as long as you are imprisoned by your own thoughts and circular ego.
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Ego Known Prison Teacher Thinking
When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
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Fall In Love Feeling Yourself
To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.
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Freedom Love
All we can know is our own subjective version of reality. That’s the way we go through our lives. Everybody.
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Live Ourselves Subject Way
Love is what we are; we don’t get it from somebody, we can’t give it to anybody, we can’t fall in it or fall out of it. Love is our true Being.
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Fall In Love Love True
Ultimately when I am with you all, what I see is my Guru. And what is he? He is love.
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Love See Teacher Yourself
We are just here, right? We are just people doing our thing. And the most important aspect of anything we do is our motivation, why we do it.
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Aspect Important Motivational People
Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.
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Big Emotion Feeling
As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!
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Expectation Happiness Practice Start
On the Path, it’s impossible to know how you are doing because it’s the judger who is disappearing.
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Dissappear Impossible Judgement Path
It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
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Intuition Open World Yourself
One of your biggest lessons so far in life has been to learn to forgive myself over and over again and not to be so harsh with myself.
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Harsh Learning Lesson Myself
When we start to talk about gurus, we’re talking about beings who actually know what this is all about. They know who we were, where we came from, and where we’re going. They are not imprisoned in a selfish or self-centered view of the universe.
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Imprison Selfish Start Talk Universe View

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