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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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It’s all real and it’s all illusory: that’s awareness.
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Illusion Philosophy Reality
If you observe well, your own heart will answer.
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Heart Spiritual Yourself
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
Don’t think about the past. Just be here now.
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Past Present Thinking
Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.
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Distance Emotional Ocean
In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?
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Ourselves Philosophy Relationship
Knowledge all by itself, without deep wisdom, ends up becoming despair.
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Deep End Knowledge Wisdom
Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
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Ourselves Suffering Wisdom
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
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
Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use It!
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Life Transformation Yourself
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
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
Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.
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Important Journey Ourselves
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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Act Important Love Moments Ourselves
Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
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Art God Inspirational Philosophy Spiritual
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
We’re here to awaken from the illusion of separateness
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Illusion Philosophy
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
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
Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying.
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Deep Philosophy 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
Just relax and trust the process.
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Future Inspirational Success Trust
In mystical traditions, it is one’s own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric.
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Experience Mystery Philosophy
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
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
It’s very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos.
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Attitude Different Live Soul

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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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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