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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More Ram Dass Quotes
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To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.
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Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.
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It’s all real and it’s all illusory: that’s awareness.
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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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The game is not about becoming somebody, it’s about becoming nobody.
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Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use It!
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The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it-just don’t get lost in it.
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In mystical traditions, it is one’s own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric.
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What we’re seeing out there is the projection of where we’re at-the projection of the clingings of our minds.
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The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.
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Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.
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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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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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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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Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?
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