The world is won by those who let it go.
RAM DASSJust because you are seeing divine light, experiencing waves of bliss, or conversing with Gods and Goddesses is no reason to not know your zip code.
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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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A relationship starting out as one that awakens love can only remain a living vehicle for love to the extent that it is continually made new or reconsecrated.
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Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.
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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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Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.
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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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As one individual changes, the system changes.
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Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.
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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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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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The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.
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We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
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Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.
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Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.
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When your center is firm, when your faith is strong and unwavering, then it will not matter what company you keep.
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Whose presence reveals how subtle is the path of Love.
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Free yourself from the illusion of good and bad days. Labeling time makes us nostalgic of the past and demanding of the future. There is only here and now. Let it be.
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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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In mystical traditions, it is one’s own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric.
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Who in all his works sees God, in truth he goes to God.
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Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.
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Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying.
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When we see the Beloved in each person, it’s like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.
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I’m not interested in being a lover. I’m interested in only being love.
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The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it-just don’t get lost in it.
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Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.
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