If you observe well, your own heart will answer.
RAM DASSIt’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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The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.
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Don’t think about the past. Just be here now.
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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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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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Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
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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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I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion–and where it isn’t, that’s where my work lies.
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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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Whose presence reveals how subtle is the path of Love.
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Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.
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The freer I get, the higher I go. The higher I go, the more I see. The more I see, the less I know. The less I know, the more I’m free.
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When we’re identified with Awareness, we’re no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time.
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Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.
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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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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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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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By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another.
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The most exquisite paradox, as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can’t have it. The minute you don’t want power, you’ll have more than you ever dreamed possible.
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If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.
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My life is a creative act–like a painting, or a concerto.
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A moment comes when other is no longer other.
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I can do nothing for you but work on myself, you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!
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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.
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Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.
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In mystical traditions, it is one’s own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric.
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We’re all just walking each other home.
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