The dance goes from realizing that you’re separate (which is the awakening) to then trying to find your way back into the totality of which you are not only a part, but which you are.
RAM DASSThe 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.
More Ram Dass Quotes
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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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It’s very hard to grow because it’s difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we’ve invested so heavily.
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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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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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Trust the messages coming from your heart and intuition.
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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 relax and trust the process.
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Knowledge all by itself, without deep wisdom, ends up becoming despair.
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You base your faith on experience, your faith is
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Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.
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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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The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.
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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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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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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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