The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.
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Don’t think about the past. Just be here now.
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Most of us are so caught in righteousness, we’re afraid of truth.
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Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.
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We’re here to awaken from the illusion of separateness
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By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another.
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Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.
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Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.
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I didn’t arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.
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We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
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What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.
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Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.
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Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
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Just because you are seeing divine light, experiencing waves of bliss, or conversing with Gods and Goddesses is no reason to not know your zip code.
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The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.
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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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