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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.
Ram DassRam Dass Don’t think about the past. Just be here now.
Ram DassRam Dass What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.
Ram DassRam Dass Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.
Ram DassRam Dass Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.
Ram DassRam Dass 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.
Ram DassRam Dass Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.
Ram DassRam Dass 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.
Ram DassRam Dass Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.
Ram DassRam Dass All of a sudden the progress will stop one day, and you will find yourself, as it were, stranded. Persevere. All progress proceeds by such rise and fall. —Vivekananda
Ram DassRam Dass We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.
Ram DassRam Dass I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion–and where it isn’t, that’s where my work lies.
Ram DassRam Dass Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.
Ram DassRam Dass 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.
Ram DassRam Dass Our journey is about being more deeply involved in Life and yet less attached to it.
Ram DassRam Dass Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act.
Ram DassRam Dass
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You were fully clothed in lies, I was naked in truth. Still, when morning came It was I who survived the cold.
Obehi Vessel A.Obehi Vessel A. I loved you as Icarus loved the sun- too close, too much.
David JonesDavid Jones We attract who our souls need to grow.
Mark AnthonyMark Anthony You’re my bad habit, on this dark planet, light up my world like stars, now they’re ashes.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Permanence is a wonderful magician. Now you see him, next he goes on to perform the greatest disappearing act of all time.
Hamilton K. AmadiHamilton K. Amadi Live to be happy not to impress.
Hayley EvansHayley Evans You shined your light on all the things I’ve been trying so hard to hide.
CindyCindy You are the love I could never escape not that I would ever want to.
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Will RogersWill Rogers Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine We will end up where we belong.
Bryon MartinBryon Martin The idea of feeling great at all times is purely fictional for a simple reason: we get bored of the same things, same feelings, same environments pretty quickly. If everything was always nice and great, you’d get depressed.
Kylia JaneKylia Jane Heaven ain’t hard to find; all you gotta do is look.
Tupac ShakurTupac Shakur Trees don’t grow even, they don’t grow straight just however it makes them happy.
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