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Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.

Ram Dass

Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.
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Important Journey Ourselves
Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.
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Problem Worth Yourself
Spiritual 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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Age Identify People Practice Soul Spiritual
When we’re identified with Awareness, we’re no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time.
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Identify Live Present Time World
The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.
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Heart Judgement Mindset Moments
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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Light Love Seek Suffering Training
I can do nothing for you but work on myself, you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!
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Growth Myself Self Love Yourself
As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can’t see how it is.
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Desire Yourself
Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use It!
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Life Transformation Yourself
Whose presence reveals how subtle is the path of Love.
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Love Path Presence
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
Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts, if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way.
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God Heart Mindset Philosophy Understand
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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Control Growth Yourself
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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Dream Give Up Philosophy Possible Power Yourself
All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.
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Escape Illusion Practice Spiritual
My life is a creative act–like a painting, or a concerto.
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Art Creation Design Life

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