When the heart is open, it’s easier for the mind to be turned toward God.
RAM DASSInformation is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.
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Whose presence reveals how subtle is the path of Love.
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In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.
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The world is won by those who let it go.
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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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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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Trust the messages coming from your heart and intuition.
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Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.
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Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying.
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In mystical traditions, it is one’s own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric.
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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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Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.
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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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We’re all just walking each other home.
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Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.
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The game is not about becoming somebody, it’s about becoming nobody.
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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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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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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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Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. To me, that’s what the emerging game is all about.
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You two are together in the stars, but not in this world, in this life.
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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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Who in all his works sees God, in truth he goes to God.
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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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The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.
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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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When you are already in Detroit, you don’t have to take a bus to get there.
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