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Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.

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When your center is firm, when your faith is strong and unwavering, then it will not matter what company you keep.
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Company Faith Inspirational Strong Yourself
The dance goes from realizing that you’re separate (which is the awakening) to then trying to find your way back into the totality of which you are not only a part, but which you are.
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Dance Deep Philosophy Spiritual Yourself
Whose presence reveals how subtle is the path of Love.
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Love Path Presence
It’s all real and it’s all illusory: that’s awareness.
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Illusion Philosophy Reality
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
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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Early Journey Life Stop Yourself
All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.
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Escape Illusion Practice Spiritual
Meditation raises the question: Who are we really?
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Human Philosophy Spiritual
Free yourself from the illusion of good and bad days. Labeling time makes us nostalgic of the past and demanding of the future. There is only here and now. Let it be.
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Bad Freedom Future Goodness Illusion Time Yourself
The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.
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Heart Judgement Mindset Moments
Grace is at the nexus of love and awareness. There it’s all open and it’s all love.
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Grace Love Spiritual
Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use It!
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Life Transformation Yourself
In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?
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Ourselves Philosophy Relationship
I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.
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Myself See
Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?
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Present Yourself
When we see the Beloved in each person, it’s like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.
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Flower Garden Person See Walk
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
In mystical traditions, it is one’s own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric.
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Experience Mystery Philosophy
The secret isn’t that you’re not being told. The secret is that you’re not able to hear.
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Philosophy Secret Yourself
Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.
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Attitude God Yourself
We’re here to awaken from the illusion of separateness
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Illusion Philosophy
You two are together in the stars, but not in this world, in this life.
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Break Up Life Stars Togetherness World Yourself
You base your faith on experience, your faith is
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Experience Faith Philosophy Yourself
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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Human Identity Ourselves Relationship
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
Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
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Ourselves Suffering Wisdom
A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there’s work to be done.
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Attachment Feeling Philosophy Yourself

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