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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.

Ram Dass

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
Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.
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Distance Emotional Ocean
We’re being trained through our incarnations–trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.
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Light Love Seek Suffering Training
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
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
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
As one individual changes, the system changes.
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Change Oneself
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
Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.
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Knowledge Togetherness Wisdom
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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Age Identify People Practice Soul Spiritual
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
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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Difficult Growth Hard Investment Let Go Ourselves
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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Live Love Relationship Start
As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can’t see how it is.
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Desire 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 Journey Life Stop Yourself
Meditation raises the question: Who are we really?
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Human Philosophy Spiritual

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