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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
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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God Healing Philosophy
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
The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.
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Heart Judgement Mindset Moments
A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there’s work to be done.
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Attachment Feeling Philosophy Yourself
In mystical traditions, it is one’s own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric.
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Experience Mystery Philosophy
You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into.
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Force Myself Nature Reality Transformation World Yourself
Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.
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Important Journey Ourselves
All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.
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Escape Illusion Practice Spiritual
The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.
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Resistance Suffering
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
Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.
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Attitude God Yourself
Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.
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Live True
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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Fall Oneself Rise
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
You two are together in the stars, but not in this world, in this life.
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Break Up Life Stars Togetherness World Yourself

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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