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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 Dass

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
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
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
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.
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Act Important Love Moments Ourselves
Once you have drunk from the water of unconditional love, no other well can satisfy your thirst. The pangs of separation may become so intense that seeking the affection of the Beloved becomes an obsession.
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Affection Love Satisfaction Yourself
If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.
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Home Thinking Yourself
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.
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Game Myself Philosophy Suffering Yourself
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
There’s much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life.
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Life Moments Ourselves Yourself
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
We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
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Silence Word World
Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.
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Problem Worth Yourself
The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.
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Heart Judgement Mindset Moments
Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.
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Distance Emotional Ocean
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
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

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.

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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.

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