If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible.
RAM DASSCosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.
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Early in the journey you wonder how long the journey will take and whether you will make it in this lifetime. Later you will see that where you are going is here, and you will arrive now, so you stop asking.
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The most exquisite paradox, as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can’t have it. The minute you don’t want power, you’ll have more than you ever dreamed possible.
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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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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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We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
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As soon as you give it all up you can have it all
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When the heart is open, it’s easier for the mind to be turned toward God.
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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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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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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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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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Don’t think about the past. Just be here now.
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I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.
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Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?
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Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying.
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