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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

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 think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.
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Home Thinking Yourself
Whose presence reveals how subtle is the path of Love.
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Love Path Presence
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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Lying Mystery Religion
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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Experience Important Negative Oneself Path
Just 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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Experience God Light Reason See Yourself
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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Flower Garden Person See Walk
The next message you need is always right where you are.
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Inspirational Right Yourself
The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.
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Journey Path Spiritual True
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
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
All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.
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Escape Illusion Practice Spiritual
You base your faith on experience, your faith is
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Experience Faith Philosophy Yourself
Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?
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Present Yourself
We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
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Silence Word World
The journey across the great ocean of existence Is a journey inward ever in deeper and deeper and the deeper you get in the more you meet truth.
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Deep Existence Greatness Journey Ocean Truth
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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Bad Freedom Future Goodness Illusion Time Yourself
I’m not interested in being a lover. I’m interested in only being love.
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Deep Love Myself
A moment comes when other is no longer other.
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Moments Philosophy
When the heart is open, it’s easier for the mind to be turned toward God.
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Easy God Heart Mindset
Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.
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Knowledge Togetherness Wisdom
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
Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
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Ourselves Suffering Wisdom
The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it-just don’t get lost in it.
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Enjoyment Lost Philosophy
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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Company Faith Inspirational Strong Yourself
It’s all real and it’s all illusory: that’s awareness.
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Illusion Philosophy Reality
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

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