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 DASSYour problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.
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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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In mystical traditions, it is one’s own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric.
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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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We’re all just walking each other home.
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Grace is at the nexus of love and awareness. There it’s all open and it’s all love.
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Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.
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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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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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Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.
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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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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 next message you need is always right where you are.
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When you are already in Detroit, you don’t have to take a bus to get there.
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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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You base your faith on experience, your faith is
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The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.
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As soon as you give it all up you can have it all
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The freer I get, the higher I go. The higher I go, the more I see. The more I see, the less I know. The less I know, the more I’m free.
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To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.
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A moment comes when other is no longer other.
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Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.
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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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In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?
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My life is a creative act–like a painting, or a concerto.
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Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?
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As one individual changes, the system changes.
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