A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there’s work to be done.
RAM DASSEarly 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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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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Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?
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The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.
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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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We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
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Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.
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The next message you need is always right where you are.
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When you are already in Detroit, you don’t have to take a bus to get there.
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You base your faith on experience, your faith is
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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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A moment comes when other is no longer other.
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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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The game is not about becoming somebody, it’s about becoming nobody.
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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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