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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.

Ram Dass

It’s all real and it’s all illusory: that’s awareness.
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Illusion Philosophy Reality
If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible.
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Escape Freedom Possible Thinking Yourself
Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts, if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way.
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God Heart Mindset Philosophy Understand
We’re here to awaken from the illusion of separateness
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Illusion Philosophy
If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.
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Home Thinking Yourself
We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
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Silence Word World
Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.
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Distance Emotional Ocean
I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.
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Myself See
Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?
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Present Yourself
Most of us are so caught in righteousness, we’re afraid of truth.
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Afraid Right Truth
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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Act Important Love Moments Ourselves
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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Early Journey Life Stop Yourself
Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.
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Attitude Character Ourselves Suffering
A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there’s work to be done.
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Attachment Feeling Philosophy Yourself
Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.
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Knowledge Togetherness Wisdom
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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Force Myself Nature Reality Transformation World Yourself

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