Grace is at the nexus of love and awareness. There it’s all open and it’s all love.
RAM DASSIn 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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In mystical traditions, it is one’s own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric.
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As one individual changes, the system changes.
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It’s all real and it’s all illusory: that’s awareness.
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Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.
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Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
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Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.
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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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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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When you are already in Detroit, you don’t have to take a bus to get there.
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When the heart is open, it’s easier for the mind to be turned toward God.
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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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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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Knowledge all by itself, without deep wisdom, ends up becoming despair.
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You two are together in the stars, but not in this world, in this life.
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Relationships only work in a spiritual sense when you and I really see that we are one.
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