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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 Dass

We’re here to awaken from the illusion of separateness
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Illusion Philosophy
Don’t think about the past. Just be here now.
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Past Present Thinking
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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Journey Listen Spiritual True
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
It’s all real and it’s all illusory: that’s awareness.
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Illusion Philosophy Reality
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.
RAM DASS

Journey Path Spiritual True
The secret isn’t that you’re not being told. The secret is that you’re not able to hear.
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Philosophy Secret Yourself
To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.
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Experience Explanation Himself Necessary Possible
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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Control Growth Yourself
Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.
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Enough Ourselves Spiritual Transformation
Let’s trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let’s lay down our righteousness and just be together.
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Judgement Ourselves Right Togetherness
Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.
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Lying Mystery Religion
I didn’t arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.
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Fundamental Law Mindset Myself Understand
Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.
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Important Journey Ourselves
Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying.
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Deep Philosophy Yourself
Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.
RAM DASS

Change Identify Story

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.

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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.

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