The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it-just don’t get lost in it.
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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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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Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.
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You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.
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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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If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible.
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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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As one individual changes, the system changes.
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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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I’m not interested in being a lover. I’m interested in only being love.
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Let’s trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let’s lay down our righteousness and just be together.
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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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If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.
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Don’t think about the past. Just be here now.
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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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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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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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I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.
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The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.
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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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Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying.
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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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It’s very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos.
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The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everybody should follow any one path. Listen to your own truth.
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Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.
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All acts of healing are ultimately our selves healing our Self.
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