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Early 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.

Ram Dass

If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible.
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Escape Freedom Possible Thinking Yourself
If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.
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Home Thinking Yourself
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
In mystical traditions, it is one’s own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric.
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Experience Mystery Philosophy
By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another.
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Act Compassionate Justice Peace Philosophy
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
Who in all his works sees God, in truth he goes to God.
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God See Truth
You base your faith on experience, your faith is
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Experience Faith Philosophy Yourself
What we’re seeing out there is the projection of where we’re at-the projection of the clingings of our minds.
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Mindset Ourselves Philosophy See
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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Action Mindset Moments Oneself Ourselves World
If you observe well, your own heart will answer.
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Heart Spiritual Yourself
Grace is at the nexus of love and awareness. There it’s all open and it’s all love.
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Grace Love Spiritual
Don’t think about the past. Just be here now.
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Past Present Thinking
What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.
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Growth Philosophy Yourself
Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.
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Compassionate Desire Heart Suffering
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

Early 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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Early 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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