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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

Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.
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Change Identify Story
We’re all just walking each other home.
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Deep Each Other Home Philosophy Walk
The game is not about becoming somebody, it’s about becoming nobody.
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Deep Game Philosophy
You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.
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Love Person Philosophy Yourself
If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.
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Home Thinking Yourself
I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion–and where it isn’t, that’s where my work lies.
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Compassionate Lie Life Love Myself
As one individual changes, the system changes.
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Change Oneself
Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.
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Attitude God Yourself
Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
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Art God Inspirational Philosophy Spiritual
In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?
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Ourselves Philosophy Relationship
Just relax and trust the process.
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Future Inspirational Success Trust
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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Affection Love Satisfaction Yourself
Our journey is about being more deeply involved in Life and yet less attached to it.
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Attachment Journey Life Ourselves
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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Life Moments Ourselves Yourself
Relationships only work in a spiritual sense when you and I really see that we are one.
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Myself Oneself Relationship See Spiritual Yourself
When you are already in Detroit, you don’t have to take a bus to get there.
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Travel Yourself
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
The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.
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Resistance Suffering
If you want to be surrounded by Souls, become identified with your Soul. It takes one to know!
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Identify Oneself Soul Yourself
We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
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Silence Word World
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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Attitude Different Live Soul
Most of us are so caught in righteousness, we’re afraid of truth.
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Afraid Right Truth
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
What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.
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Growth Philosophy Yourself
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
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

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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