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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 Dass

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
Knowledge all by itself, without deep wisdom, ends up becoming despair.
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Deep End Knowledge Wisdom
Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
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Ourselves Suffering Wisdom
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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Difficult Growth Hard Investment Let Go Ourselves
Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.
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Knowledge Togetherness Wisdom
Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.
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Compassionate Desire Heart Suffering
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
All acts of healing are ultimately our selves healing our Self.
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Act Healing Ourselves
The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it-just don’t get lost in it.
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Enjoyment Lost Philosophy
Trust the messages coming from your heart and intuition.
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Heart Trust 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
All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.
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Escape Illusion Practice Spiritual
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
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Fall Oneself Rise
Most of us are so caught in righteousness, we’re afraid of truth.
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Afraid Right Truth
We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
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Silence Word World
Who in all his works sees God, in truth he goes to God.
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God See Truth

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