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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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As soon as you give it all up you can have it all
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Heart Philosophy 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
The journey across the great ocean of existence Is a journey inward ever in deeper and deeper and the deeper you get in the more you meet truth.
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Deep Existence Greatness Journey Ocean Truth
The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.
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Heart Judgement Mindset Moments
If you observe well, your own heart will answer.
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Heart Spiritual Yourself
You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.
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Love Person Philosophy Yourself
If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible.
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Escape Freedom Possible Thinking Yourself
Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.
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Important Journey Ourselves
In mystical traditions, it is one’s own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric.
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Experience Mystery Philosophy
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
The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.
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Journey Path Spiritual True
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
What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.
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Growth Philosophy Yourself
As one individual changes, the system changes.
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Change Oneself
I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion–and where it isn’t, that’s where my work lies.
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Compassionate Lie Life Love Myself
We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
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Silence Word World
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
Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.
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Lying Mystery Religion
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
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
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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Act Compassionate Justice Peace Philosophy
The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
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Philosophy Quiet 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
Most of us are so caught in righteousness, we’re afraid of truth.
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Afraid Right Truth
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
All acts of healing are ultimately our selves healing our Self.
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Act Healing Ourselves
The most exquisite paradox, as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can’t have it. The minute you don’t want power, you’ll have more than you ever dreamed possible.
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Dream Give Up Philosophy Possible Power Yourself

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