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.
RAM DASSAll 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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Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.
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Meditation raises the question: Who are we really?
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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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As soon as you give it all up you can have it all
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Most of us are so caught in righteousness, we’re afraid of truth.
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A moment comes when other is no longer other.
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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.
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The next message you need is always right where you are.
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What we’re seeing out there is the projection of where we’re at-the projection of the clingings of our minds.
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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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We’re being trained through our incarnations–trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.
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We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
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Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.
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Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.
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You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into.
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